Teresa Pascual

CONSTRUÍEM PARAULES DE CIMENT

Poems

• 1 A LA MESURA DE LES TEUES COSES | Translations: ptes
• 2 CAMINE NOUS ESPAIS | Translations: deen
• 3 CONSTRUÍEM PARAULES DE CIMENT | Translations: en
• 4 EL TEU COS NO ÉS SAL I ÉS LA SAL | Translations: deeneufrglpt
• 5 ELS MILLORS VERSOS QUEDEN PER ESCRIURE | Translations: en
• 6 FRAG MICH WARUM | Translations: pt
• 7 HA VINGUT JA L’HIVERN SENSE SORPRENDRE’M | Translations: en
• 8 [Ordre partit en dos que creua l’ordre...] | Translations: gl
• 9 PARE, LA MAR – IRREVOCABLE I JUSTA | Translations: ende
• 10 TEORIA DE LES IDEES | Translations: pt

Language: catalan

Translations: english (WE BUILD WORDS OF CEMENT)

CONSTRUÍEM PARAULES DE CIMENT

Construíem paraules de ciment
i creàvem paraules de silenci.
La finestra entreoberta, la finestra,
el marc de la foscor més grisa i ampla.
Si et parlava, tancaries les mans
i tu no deixaries que em parlaren,
si et besava, tancaries els ulls
i tu no deixaries que em besaren.

Translations:

Language: english

WE BUILD WORDS OF CEMENT

We build words of cement
and create words of silence.
The half-open window, the window,
the frame of a greyer and wider darkness.
If I spoke to you, you would fold your hands
and would not let them speak to me,
if I kissed you, you would close your eyes
and would not let them kiss me.

Teresa Pascual

photo © institut ramon llull

* 30.11.1951, Grau de Gandia, Spain
lives in: Gandia, Spain

Teresa Pascual was born in Grau de Gandia in 1952. She is a poet and translator.

Pascual has a degree in Philosophy from the University of Valencia and is a secondary school teacher in Gandia. She introduced herself as a poetess with her first book, Flexo, in 1988. Her poetry has received various awards, including the Crítica Serra d’Or Prize and Crítica Valencian Writers Prize. Of note among her work as a translator is the translation of the Poesia completa of Ingeborg Bachmann (1995) alongside Karin Shepers. Together with Lluïsa Julià she has written the essay Vosaltres, paraules: vint-i-cinc anys de poesia al País Valencià (Our words: Twenty-Five Years of Complete Poetry in the Lands of Valencia, 2003). Her work is featured in many foreign language anthologies.

photo © institut ramon llull

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