Marvelous Mary Tang’s translation of “Unwinding.”-
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Marvelous Mary Tang’s translation of “Unwinding.”-
This has to be so rewarding for you, Bob.
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I always feel honored when someone responds to something I’ve written, and Mary has translated quite a few of my poems. Am always touched and pleased.
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clear glass of water
unwind by two culture
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Yes!
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No more thirst to quench, thank you.
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The translation: so difficult to translate and capture. The poem: thank you. Great.
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Thank you!
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If you literally reverse translate the first two lines back into English, you could order it into “like a day-long line…”, a line that is a full day in length. Language play is so much fun.
Great poem!
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I love this!
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Even the idea of language (verbs, nouns, etc.) blows my mind; that all cultures and groups have language functions but it is always along noun/verb lines. I think mankind’s greatest invention and possible his greatest tragedy is the word “I”…
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The idea and practice of representing sound with pictures is fascinating.
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Indeed! There is so much to think about and marvel at, it can be intellectually dizzying.
It is also yet another reason why I hate stupidity and ignorance… “ignorance” being the “ignore” part; knowing the truth and willfully ignoring/neglecting it because it does not center one’s biases. There is so much to wonder at int he world… and existential ignorance reduces it to a stupidity the nature of which Dietrich Bonheofer discussed so often: the malicious variety.
People forget that the alphabet is abstract art. The letter M does not appear in nature growing from a shrub! 🙂
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A beautiful poem, so happy Mary translated it for us to understand.
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Mary is a treasure!
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She sure is!
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