Donald Berger

People’s Stage

Poemas

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

língua: inglês

Traduções : alemão (Volksbühne)

People’s Stage

I love how you looked on that day.
I didn’t know you and still
Don’t know you,
The day of the walking X’s, no, the walking wheels.

I have to be home before two.
I let in a miniature face.
The shadow under the S-Bahn bridge is cold,
The man-sized graffiti almost a comfort.

Take those thoughts of a hand the fireflower put it
Over the window that reads, in English,
The Unknown Friends.

Traduções :

língua: alemão

Volksbühne

Ich mag, wie du an jenem Tag ausgesehen hast.
Ich kannte dich nicht und immer noch
Kenne ich dich nicht,
Am Tag der gehenden Xe, nein, der gehenden Räder.

Ich muss vor zwei zuhause sein.
Ich lasse ein Miniaturgesicht herein.
Der Schatten unter der S-Bahn-Brücke ist kalt,
Das mannshohe Graffiti fast tröstlich.

Nimm jene Gedanken einer Hand, die Feuerblume, setze sie
Über das Fenster, auf dem, auf Englisch, zu lesen ist:
The Unknown Friends.

Donald Berger

Foto © Peter Berger

* 25.05.1956, New York City, Estados Unidos
vive em: 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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