"The nets of mutability"
Bachmann, Roethke, Weismiller, Arefani, Hughes
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Ingeborg Bachmann (tr. from German by Peter Filkins):
Theodore Roethke:
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Edward Weismiller:
Merhdad Arefani (tr. from Farsi by Abol Froushan):
Langston Hughes:
Charlie Parker, āDark Shadows,ā rec. February 19, 1947:
Iām puzzled by one of the decisions Peter Filkins made in his Bachmann translation. The third line in the German is a noun, āSchattenā, but he translates it as if it were a verb, āschattenā.
There arenāt any verbs in Bachmannās poem:
Schatten Rosen Schatten
Unter einem fremden Himmel
Schatten Rosen
Schatten
auf einer fremden Erde
zwischen Rosen und Schatten
in einem fremden Wasser
mein Schatten