Mario Chard

PARADISE LOST

Idioma: inglés

Traducciones: alemán (Paradies verloren), italiano (Paradiso perduto)

PARADISE LOST

Then the woman who couldn’t sleep
for the ache inside her ear,
who lit every light bulb in her house
until the glare outside was bright enough
to change the weather in her neighbor’s dream,
who reached up and pulled down a bulb
each time the glass of one
she laid against her ear grew cold
emptied of its light, and who waited
until she had drained each one—
the day changed back to night
behind her neighbor’s eyes—
for the deep ache to leave, couldn’t sleep
for the tips of her fingers burning.

Mario Chard

Foto © Michael Reese

* 24.05.1985, Ogden, UT, Estados Unidos
Vive en: Atlanta, GA, Estados Unidos

Mario Chard (b. in Northern Utah), son of an Argentinian mother who emigrated to the USA and an American father, interweaves themes of migration with stories around family, Abraham and his son. Chard’s current poetry collection, Land of Fire, includes Spanish and English sounds side-by-side. In 2016 he won the Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press and was acclaimed by the Poets & Writers Magazine as a Notable Debut of 2018. Most recently his poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry and the Boston Review. He has won the Boston Review “Discovery” Poetry Prize and is a former fellow of the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He teaches in Atlanta, Georgia, where he lives with his wife and sons.

Foto © Michael Reese

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