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EDGARD BRAGA
(Maceió AL 1897 - São Paulo SP 1985)
De
DESBRAGADA/ org. Régis Bonvicino
São Paulo: Editora Max Lomonad, 1984
Translation: Edwin Morgan
one
fly fire fly
fire one fly
fire fly one
fire fire fire
one fly fire
one flire fly
white horses rough waters
deep waters smooth waters
rough waters white horses
waters
waters
mares white horses
rough mares waters
white rough mares
mares waters rough
brief white rough
waters
deep
rough
brief
smooth
waters
white swallow
yellow swallow
black
black coat
yellow swallow
whirw
yellow
black coat
yellow swallow
white
black
silver
yellow
white swallow
yes yes no no
no no yes yes
one one no
one yes yes
no no no
one no yes
one yes yes
one no
yes
(sim sim)
in my glove of gold in my glove of silver
I hid men and nations I hid my shame
in my glove of stone
I hid my death
in my glove of iron
I hid my silence
knight-at-arms knight-at-arms knight-at-arms knight-at-arms
throw your glove to the winds throw your glove to the winds
knight-at-arms knight-at-arms
throw your glove to the winds
knight-at-arms knight-at-arms
keep your glove
keep
the winds
living deadman living
deadman living deadman
alive
living
deadman
living
deadman
alive
long live the dead man
ballad
ballad
brooded
brooded
broaded
belove
belove
bird
bird
bird
ballad
brooded
belove
bird
one
poor plays
one
ploy poor
plays one ploy
one poor plays
plays plays plays
ploy poor
one
plays
(umn pobre joga)
isle
smile
tranquil
(ilha)
“braga, aos 60, também não viu nada do que gostariam que ele visse. viu outra coisa. viu subúrbio branco. viu extralunário. caminhou com os moços da poesia concreta. perdeu amigos. ganhou inimigos. ficou só. com seus amigos concretos. e lançou soma (1963):
Ilha
brilha
tranquila
quantos teriam essa coragem? braga foi saboteado. foi omitido. mas não adiantou. o times literary supplement de londres tomou conhecimento de soma no número dedicado à vanguarda internacional (3-9-64). ian hamilton finlay devotou-lhe o n. 21 da revista p.o.t.h.
edwin morgan traduziu vários de seus poemas que apareceram nas melhores antologias da poesia nova universal: na anthology of concrete poetry, de emmet Williams (1967), concrete poetry: a world view, de mary ellen solt (1968). e agoara correm mundo na exposição itinerante do stedelijk museum.
Augusto de Campos, no livro DESBRAGADA, org. Régis Bonvicino. 1984
AN INTRODUCTION TO MODERN BRAZILIAN POETRY. Verse translations by Leonard S. Downes. [São Paulo]: Clube de Poesia do Brasil, 1954. 84 p. 14x20 cm. “ Leonard S. Downes “ Ex. Biblioteca Nacional de Brasília.
ODE XXI
It is no sleep, my love, it is more and higher,
´tis a setting of sleep like a sun going down,
a wild desire,
suddenly found
beyond the human tragic unforeseen.
A sleep of shadows, of sound, a sleep of rain
in this room of mine
where silence remains
hidden in every object night and day
as a glove retains the feel of the hand.
O take me away
to that dead land
where cloud-sheep and the stars of heaven
alone point out the way
to tattered sails
steered by the night to their last haven.
ODE XXXI
In January rains the moonlight fades,
calm is the sea and all that comes from memory´s
remotest confines
on the wind´s voice.
On the wall the lamp makes abstractions of shade
and of thought.
In my room,
my day closes in solitude.
Publicada em fevereiro de 2009 ; ampliada e republicada em agosto de 2015.
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