nows
196/06 Now
196/07 From now until
196/08 If not done now
196/09 Not now
196/10 Now at
196/11 is the time to act
196/12 or never
196/13 Nowhere
ex China Inland Mission Private Telegraph Code (1913)
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Have been reading Cecilia Rossi's fine translation of poems by Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-72 * ), from whose Los trabajos y las noches / Works and Nights (1965) this:
Las Grandes Palabras
a Antonio Porchia
aún no es ahora
ahora es nunca
aún no es ahora
ahora y siempre
es nunca
—
The Great Words
to Antonio Porchia
it is not now yet
now is never
it is not now yet
now and forever
is never
Translation reproduced here with permission; from Alejandra Pizarnik, Selected Poems (translated by Cecilia Rossi), Waterloo Press, 2010
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17 June 2012
tags: Alejandra Pizarnik