Ernest Farrés

CAPE COD SUNSET, 1934

Language: catalan

Translations: english (CAPE COD SUNSET, 1934), italian (CAPE COD SUNSET, 1934), occitan (CAPE COD SUNSET, 1934)

CAPE COD SUNSET, 1934

És com si l’horitzó sobreeixís,
com si la natura marqués el pas
del dia a la nit detenint el temps,
com si esclatés una bomba d’hidrogen.

Sobrevé la posta del sol i el món
embogeix de perfums primaverals
que amaren l’aire i de colors roents
que s’escampen sobre els antropomòrfics
perfils del bosc agrest i les muntanyes.

Grans propietats rústiques que fan
olor de nou, camins de bona petja,
marrades angostes, albercoquers
en flor, carenes, terrenys de pastura,
torrenteres seques i bruguerars
es revesteixen de llustrosos nimbes
rics d’ocres, ambres, safrans i carmins
que a poc a poc es van esllenegant
en inconnexa disposició.
Segons com hi toca la llum, tremolen
de pura ingravidesa i harmonitzen
amb el blau més pujat de firmament.

Translations:

Language: english

CAPE COD SUNSET, 1934

It’s as if the horizon had overflowed,
as if nature had marked the passage
from day to night by slowing time,
as if a hydrogen bomb had exploded.

The sunset broke loose and the world
went crazy with vernal scents
saturating the air, with burning colors
spreading over the anthropomorphic
outlines of wild woods and mountains.

Huge country estates that give
off a fresh smell, fine hiking trails,
narrow detours, apricot trees
in bloom, crest lines, pasture lands,
dry gullies and heather
are graces with glowing haloes,
rich in ochres, ambers, saffrons and carmines
gradually losing their shapes
in a disjointed arrangement.
According to how the light false, they tremble
with pure weightlessness and harmonize
with the most intense blue of the firmament.

Language: italian

CAPE COD SUNSET, 1934

È come se l'orizzonte fuoriuscisse,
come se la natura segnasse il passaggio
dal giorno alla notte fermando il tempo,
come se scoppiasse una bomba all'idrogeno.

Soggiunge il tramonto ed il mondo
impazzisce di profumi primaverili
che impregnano l'aria e di colori roventi
che si stendono sugli antropomorfici
profili dell'agreste bosco e delle montagne.

Grandi proprietà rustiche che odorano
di nuovo, agevoli sentieri,
digressioni anguste, albicocchi
in fiore, crinali, pascoli,
secche torrentizie e brughiere
si rivestono di luccicanti nimbi
ricchi d'ocre, ambre, zafferani e carmini
che a poco a poco vanno sformandosi
in disposizione sconnessa.
Secondo come la luce batta, tremolano
per pura assenza di gravità e armonizzano
col più intenso blu del firmamento.

Language: occitan

CAPE COD SUNSET, 1934

Es coma se l’asuèlh asondèsse,
coma se la natura marquèsse lo pas
del jorn a la nuèch en tot arrestar lo temps,
coma s’esclatèsse una bomba a l’idrogèn.

Subreven lo trescòl e lo mond
ven fòl de perfums primaverals
qu’embauman l’aire e de colors rosents
que s’escampan suls antropomorfics
perfils del bòsc agrest e las montanhas.

Grandas proprietats agrícòlas
que senton a nòu, camins leugièrs,
bestorns estreches, albricotièrs
florits, carenas, pastencs,
torrents secs e brugals
revestisson de nimbes lusents
rics d’òcras, ambres, safrans e carmins
que pauc a cha pauc s’alongan
en incoerenta disposicion.
Segon coma i done la lutz, tremolan
de pura ingravitat e armonizan
amb lo blau mai cargat del firmament.

Ernest Farrés

* 1967, Barcelona, Spain
lives in: Barcelona, Spain

Ernest Farrés is a journalist and writer. He works for the cultural supplement of La Vanguardia newspaper. He is the author of six volumes of poetry in Catalan: Clavar-ne una al mall i l’altra a l’enclusa (1996), Mosquits (1998), Edward Hopper (2006), Els efectes imprevisibles dels camps magnètics (2011), Blitzkrieg (2011) and Los Angeles (2015). Edward Hopper constitutes a sequence of poems based on the pictorial work of this renowned artist, which has garnered various awards, including the Robert Fagles Prize for the best translation of contemporary poetry into English (to the translator Lawrence Venuti, 2008). He has edited a reference anthology for young Catalan poets: 21 poetes del xxi (21 Poets of the 21st Century, 2001).

In the words of the poet and critic Àlex Susanna, “Farrés is the type of author who is quite atypical, who has made himself unhurriedly but with an admirable stubbornness, steering entirely clear both of stardom and the prevailing gregarious spirit. […] The tone of his poems is as prosaic as that of a novel, because it shies away from lyrical incandescence and endeavours to adapt to the prose of life. His gain will have consisted precisely of being able to produce a high level of output on working days – and its sporadic counterpoints – that shape and misshape the life of ordinary people, whether painted or written.”

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