Donald Berger

The Long Time

Poemas

• 1 The Long Time | Traducciones: de
• 2 The Wall | Traducciones: de
• 3 People’s Stage | Traducciones: de
• 4 To Be Where the Sun Is | Traducciones: de
• 5 Annisquam | Traducciones: de
• 6 Tom Madigan | Traducciones: de
• 7 I Forget | Traducciones: de
• 8 Television | Traducciones: de
• 9 The Ghost of Good Bread | Traducciones: de
• 10 Epistle | Traducciones: de

Idioma: inglés

Traducciones: alemán (Die währende Zeit)

The Long Time

It was a long
time.  What day
was it?  I
didn’t know.

O little while
while you last,   
as somebody
who doesn’t know meets
somebody who does,

and the rooms’
crack of wind
tinted glass
across from the
stone-piled well into
the church’s field:

to grip the telephone
with my neck,
over a light
I loved you

Traducciones:

Idioma: alemán

Die währende Zeit

Es war eine lange
Zeit. An welchem
Tag? Ich
wusste es nicht.

O kleine Weile,
während du andauerst,
wie einer,
der nicht Bescheid weiß, einen trifft,
der es weiß,

und der Räume
Windriss,
gefärbtes Glas,
von dem
steingefügten Brunnen auf
den Kirchacker hinüber:

das Telefon
mit meinem Hals zu halten,
über einer Lampe
Ich liebte dich

Donald Berger

Foto © Peter Berger

* 25.05.1956, New York City, Estados Unidos
Vive en: Baltimore, Estados Unidos

Donald Berger was born in Queens (NYC) and grew up in NY and MA, attended the University of Massachusetts and the University of Washington, and lived four years in Germany, where he was a Fulbright Fellow.

He has taught language, literature and writing for more  than 28 years, at the University of Maryland and Montgomery College, and teaches currently at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Donald Berger is the author of The Long Time, a bilingual collection of poetry in English and German from Wallstein Press in Goettingen, Germany, and two other books of poems, Quality Hill (Lost Roads Publishers) and The Cream-Filled Muse (Fledermaus Press).

Foto © Peter Berger

His poems and prose have also appeared in The New Republic, Slate, Conjunctions, Colorado Review, Ironwood, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, Fence, The Massachusetts Review, and magazines in Berlin, Leipzig, and Budapest. 

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