quarta-feira, 2 de fevereiro de 2011

Thom Gunn


Já postei um poema dele, The Hug, um dos meus all time favorites. Ele é, melhor, era inglês, tem vários livros publicados, infelizmente nenhum aqui (novidade?).




The Dump


He died, and I admired
the crisp vehemence
of a lifetime reduced to
half a foot of shelf space.
But others came to me saying,
we too loved him, let us take you
to the place of our love.
So they showed me
everything, everything--
a cliff of notebooks
with every draft and erasure
of every poem he
published or rejected,
thatched already
with webs of annotation.
I went in further and saw
a hill of matchcovers
from every bar or restaurant
he'd ever entered. Trucks
backed up constantly,
piled with papers, and awaited
by archivists with shovels;
forklifts bumped through
trough and valley
to adjust the spillage.
Here odors of rubbery sweat
intruded on the pervasive
smell of stale paper,
no doubt from the mound
of his collected sneakers.
I clambered up the highest
pile and found myself
looking across not history
but the vistas of a steaming
range of garbage
reaching to the coast itself. Then
I lost my footing! and was
carried down on a soft
avalanche of letters, paid bills,
sexual polaroids, and notes
refusing invitations, thanking
fans, resisting scholars.
In nightmare I slid,
no ground to stop me,

until I woke at last
where I had napped beside
the precious half foot. Beyond that,
nothing, nothing at all.

3 comentários:

  1. O fundo negro ficou um tanto pesado. Gostava mais do outro.
    Pronto, foi só reclamar que não comento mais o blog que já fico me achando e começo a dar palpites!

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  2. Como vc pode ver, eu concordo totalmente com vc. Foi uma experiência que deu errado...

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Comente o que acha que deve, mas use termos gentis, mesmo que desaforados...