Selected Poetry, 1937–1990

Sobre Elizabeth Bishop / On Elizabeth Bishop

Sobre Elizabeth Bishop Quern falar como ela falou levara a lente especial: nao agranda e nem diminui, essa lente filtra o essencial que todos vemos mas nao vemos ate o chegar a falar dele: o essencial que filtra esta vivo e inquieto como qualquer peixe. Nao se sabe e a sabia receita que faz sua palavraessencial conservar aceso num livro o ago do peixe inaugural. 178 Sabre Elizabeth Bishop Quem falar como ela falou levari a lente especial: nao agranda e nem diminui, essa lente filtra 0 essencial que todos vemos mas nao vemos ate 0 chegar a falar dele: o essencial que filtra esta vivo e inquieto como qualquer peixe. Nao se sabe e a sabia receita que faz sua palavra essencial conservar aceso num livro o a<;o do peixe inaugural. On Elizabeth Bishop Whoever would speak as she did will carry a special lens: one that neither magnifies nor reduces, a lens that filters the essential which we all see but do not see until we come to speak of it: the filtered essential is alive and restless like any fish. Unknown is the knowing formula that makes her essential -word preserve in a book the burning steel of the inaugural fish. Translated by Djelal Kadir 179 On Elizabeth Bishop Whoever would speak as she did will carry a special lens: one that neither magnifies nor reduces, a lens that filters the essential which we all see but do not see until we come to speak of it: the filtered essential is alive and restless like any fish. Unknown is the knowing formula that makes her essential word preserve in a book the burning steel of the inaugural fish. Translated by Djelal Kadir 179 ...