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    Negdje devedeset i neke, dok je još radio onaj Američki centar u ulici Oktobarske revolucije, ako ga se neko sjeća, u jednom izdanju "Poetry" sam naletio na pjesmu "Late Letter", autor je bila Jill Allyn Rosser, ili, kako je tamo bila potpisana, J. Allyn Rosser.

    Pjesma me je oduševila, sačuvao sam je, a kako se, naravno, u ono vrijeme kod nas nije moglo jednostavno doći do strane literature (taj Američki centar su kasnije zatvorili, ne znam je li još neko imao osjećaj da bi bolje bilo da su zatvorili Skupštinu, manje bi se osjetilo), dugo vremena je to bila njena jedina pjesma koju sam pročitao; tek deceniju ili dvije kasnije, na internetu sam polako nalazio i ostala njena djela, iz, doduše, dosta siromašnog opusa...

    Mislim da nije prevođena na naš jezik (ili neki od okolnih razumljivih jezika ), ili bar ja nisam našao prevode, ali evo nekoliko njenih pjesama u originalu, svejedno mislim da je teško prevesti ovaj njen suptilni izraz i igre riječi... "Late Letter" je kao u štampanom izdanju u "Poetry", mislim da i ovaj font doprinosi da poema bude ljepša. Ovdje je njena zvanična stranica sa Ohajo Univerziteta, gdje je profesor, a još poema se može naći na njenoj stranici na Poetry Foundation.

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    we all got tickets to The Truth
    finally we thought finally
    when the curtain fell away
    our indrawn breaths could be heard
    even in the next theater
    even the gasp of the mime
    who had slipped in among us
    a loud whushing like reams of litter
    whirling upward in a gale
    hands shot to mouths and mouths
    fell open I couldn’t say within
    how many seconds
    all our minds shut some
    slamming others just a click
    like 300 parallel
    rows of tipped dominoes
    a racket of almost unison

    believe me we wouldn’t
    have resisted anything
    but the truth
    so instantly and universally
    yet we sat there and waited
    for something else
    which you could say we also got
    if you count the mime’s
    unpleasant remark
    so she wasn’t even a real mime
    probably part of what was
    clearly just a performance

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    Last edited by Billy Hills; 18-07-14 at 09:06.

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    Lullabye for the Second Millennium


    From the point of view of all time,

    these recent changes signal

    more a return to nature

    than a departure, than degradation.

    In the beginning, after all,

    there was boiling rock.

    Then waters arranging their bodies

    around an era of softer forms:

    lichen, grassland, swaying treetops.

    Then creatures, movingly fleshed,

    treading pathways that hardened.

    Then pavement hardening

    and cities, monumental.

    Soon mostly rock again,

    and radiant. More and more like moon.

    Soon, sooner than is being thought,

    there will be even more light.

    The creatures will have stopped

    being able to move

    or be moved.

    And the rock will boil.

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