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    Where Spaces Glow: Selected Poems
    Where Spaces Glow: Selected Poems
    Where Spaces Glow: Selected Poems
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    Where Spaces Glow: Selected Poems

    By Francis Catalano

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    Francis Catalano's poetry speaks of space, place and people. In the extracts from Index and qu'une lueur des lieux geographical, geological, geometrical and ancestral textures, shapes and colours kaleidoscope to create powerful North American landscapes. Wide open skies, craggy mountains, blinding snow, endless straight black top roads and fast food outlets reflect, refract and radiate in multi-facetted verse. In Romamor, framed within a city's walls, another dimension is added contrasting light and darkness, space and proximity. Where Spaces Glow invites you to reach out and feel the finely chiselled, radiant pieces of Catalano's beautifully crafted poetic terrestrial jigsaw.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGuernica
    Release dateOct 1, 2013
    ISBN9781550717006
    Where Spaces Glow: Selected Poems

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      Where Spaces Glow - Francis Catalano

      Where Spaces Glow

      Selected Poems

      Francis Catalano

      Translated from the French by Christine Tipper

      French-English Bilingual Edition

      Guernica

      TORONTO · BUFFALO · BERKELEY (CA) · LANCASTER (U.K.) 2013

      Contents

      Title

      INDEX

      Amérique terre archaïque

      America archaic earth

      Ici j’assiste dans toute sa grâce

      Here I assist in all its glory

      Laurentia tapie sous l’Amérique

      Laurentia crouched under America

      Accroupi au bord de l’abîme je m’imagine

      Crouched by the side of the abyss I imagine

      L’ombre d’un cervidé m’appâte

      The shadow of a deer lures me

      Il neigeait doucement

      It was gently snowing

      Des visages ravinés sombrent çà et là

      Furrowed faces slump here and there

      Le pôle vie le pôle mort entre les deux dériver

      The pole alive the pole dead between the two drifting

      Tenace race de Siam perdure

      Tenacious race of Siam endures

      Marcher et inventer font un

      Walking and inventing are one and the same

      ROMAMOR

      Splendeur des yeux dessillés

      Splendour of eyes unsealed

      En filigrane du rêve, qui va là?

      In the haziness of a dream, who goes there?

      Depuis le rectangle de la chambrette

      From the rectangle of the small bedroom

      Derrière les murs il est des murs

      Behind the walls are walls

      Vus d’en bas les toits de tuiles

      Seen from below the curved tiled roofs

      Lire un livre tel l’aruspice

      Read a book like an aruspice

      Un touriste avance, avance

      A tourist advances, advances

      D’ici part tout le pavé romain

      From here all the Roman cobblestones leave

      À l’arrêt j’attends, muet

      At the bus stop I wait, mute

      Adolescent, mes rêves les plus chers

      Adolescent, my dearest dreams

      Après un mois d’averses

      After a month of showers

      Le front plaqué au ciel je traverse

      My forehead stuck against the sky I cross

      Les églises sont les tendons mystiques

      Churches are the mystical tendons

      Sur l’échiquier, pré géométrique

      On the chessboard, geometric field

      Écrire un livre sur rien, absolument

      Write a book about nothing, absolutely

      Clore les yeux à double tour

      Lock your eyes tight

      Au tintement des cloches

      With the pealing of the bells

      Les idées, concepts ou images

      Ideas, concepts or images

      Brunissent le soir les pastels de la ville

      Tingeing brown the town’s evening pastels

      WHERE SPACES GLOW

      Le ciel en petites coupures à plates

      The Sky in Little Slices with Flat

      Ariz Arias Ariens Arizona

      Ariz Arias Ariens Arizona

      Le blanc vin l’herbe

      The White Wine the Grass

      Si le soleil est l’oeuf la terre (je m’en veux)

      If the Sun Is the Egg the Earth (I Blame Myself)

      L’Apache Trail la paix

      The Apache Trail Peace

      L’œuf le bœuf la bouffe

      The Bull’s-Eye the Bull the Bill

      The West ouais oui ouest

      The West Yeah Yes Ouest

      Du Painted Desert j’ai ram-

      From The Painted Desert I Brou-

      Tandis qu’à belles dents le nord

      While with Appetite the North

      Les terres la pierre la mousse

      The Lands the Rock the Moss

      Je suis une auto louée vouée

      I Am a Rented Car Meant for

      Passe un train-scie polychrome

      A Train-Saw

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