"Keeping Things Whole" by Mark Strand

«Διατηρώντας τα πράγματα ολόκληρα»

Σ' ένα πεδίο
είμαι η απουσία
του πεδίου.
Ετσι
πάντα συμβαίνει.
Οπου κι αν είμαι
είμαι αυτό που λείπει.

Οταν περπατάω
χωρίζω τον αέρα
και πάντα
ο αέρας ξανάρχεται
για να γεμίσει τα κενά
εκεί που το σώμα μου ήταν.

Ολοι έχουμε λόγους
που κινούμαστε.
Εγώ κινούμαι
για να διατηρώ τα πράγματα ολόκληρα.


Ποίημα από τη συλλογή Λόγοι που Κινούμαστε (Reasons for Moving) του Μαρκ Στραντ, αμερικανού ποιητή γεννημένου το 1934 στον Καναδά. Το Πεντάλ τον συνάντησε πριν από τρία χρόνια στην Κόρδοβα, σχεδόν ακίνητο, ολιγόλογο, απίστευτα ευγενή και μετριόφρονα. Γράφει ακόμη με μολύβι.

Ενδεικτικοί τίτλοι συλλογών: Ο άνθρωπος και η Καμήλα, Η Ιστορία της Ζωής μας, Σκοτεινό Λιμάνι.

Η Κατερίνα Αγγελάκη Ρουκ τον έχει μεταφράσει εδώ και χρόνια. Αντί για τη λέξη «πεδίο» (η μόνη αλλαγή που επιχείρησε διστακτικό το Πεντάλ), η Ρουκ έχει προτιμήσει τη λέξη «χωράφι». Ο αναγνώστης μπορεί και να διαλέξει τη λέξη «λιβάδι», που είναι κι αυτή θεμιτή, και θερμότερη.

http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=51381

"Keeping Things Whole" by Mark Strand


In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.

When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.

We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.


"Coming To This"  by Mark Strand


We have done what we wanted.
We have discarded dreams, preferring the heavy industry
of each other, and we have welcomed grief
and called ruin the impossible habit to break.

And now we are here.
The dinner is ready and we cannot eat.
The meat sits in the white lake of its dish.
The wine waits.


Coming to this
has its rewards: nothing is promised, nothing is taken away.
We have no heart or saving grace,
no place to go, no reason to remain.



"The Remains"  by Mark Strand


I empty myself of the names of others. I empty my pockets.
I empty my shoes and leave them beside the road.
At night I turn back the clocks;
I open the family album and look at myself as a boy.

What good does it do? The hours have done their job.
I say my own name. I say goodbye.
The words follow each other downwind.
I love my wife but send her away.

My parents rise out of their thrones
into the milky rooms of clouds. How can I sing?
Time tells me what I am. I change and I am the same.
I empty myself of my life and my life remains.

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/mark_strand/poems/11842

Salvador Dalí "The Dream is Getting Closer"

"Il sogno si avvicina"

Palazzo Reale, Milan
September, 22 2010 – January, 30 2011

After over 50 years, Salvador Dalì’s genius is back in Milan:
Palazzo Reale houses a great exhibition investigating the relationship between this Spanish artist and the landscape, the dream, the desire.

The Milan City Councillorship for Culture and 24 ORE Cultura – Gruppo 24 ORE are honoured to present at Palazzo Reale “Salvador Dalì. Il sogno si avvicina” (“The Dream is Getting Closer”), under the curatorship of Vincenzo Trione, from September 22, 2010 to January 30, 2011.

The exhibition, made possible thanks to the extraordinary collaboration with Fundaciò Gala-Salvador Dalì of Figueres, counts on important loans from Italian and international museums and institutions, including the Fundaciò itself, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia of Madrid, the Dalí Museum of St. Petersburg, Florida, the Boijmans Museum of Rotterdam, the Animation Research Library of the Walt Disney Animation Studios of Burbank, California, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection of Venice, the Mart of Rovereto and the Vatican Museums.

The exhibition – promoted by Comune di Milano-Culture and produced by Palazzo Reale and 24 ORE Cultura – Gruppo 24 ORE in collaboration with Unipol Financing Group and with the support of Spanish Office for Tourism of Milan, focuses on the relationship between painting and landscape.

Salvador Dalì is back in town for the first time since the solo exhibition which took place in October 1954 in Sala delle Cariatidi, always at Palazzo Reale. This same Cariatidi’s room was so inspiring for this artist that he took it as model for his mansion in Figueras, today seat of the Fundaciò Gala-Salvador Dalì.

“Once again, we need Dalì to escape from an often boring and predictable condition. And this exhibition aims exactly to break the cultural conformism and express the great power of creativity at best – explains the Milan City Councillor for Culture Massimiliano Finazzer Flory. “Because the dream is inside of us, and it is one of the manifestations of reality and of desire told by art and through which art tells itself. Dalì in Milan is the symbol of the creativity or – better – of the power of creativity. A relation not to be missed”.

The set of the exhibition is designed by the architect Oscar Tusquests Blanca, friend and collaboration of Salvador Dalì: he is author, together with the master of Surrealism, of Mae West’s room in Figueras’s museum and of the famous sofa Dalilips.

For the first time, the Mae West room will be reproduced inside this exhibition exactly as Dalì originally imagined it: an extraordinary surprisingly installation of contemporary art.

“Salvador Dalí. Il sogno si avvicina” counts on a top level scientific committee, composed of important international scholars: Montse Aguer, director of the study centre on Dalì of the Fundaciò; Hank Hines, director of the Dalí Museum of St. Petersburg; Antonio Paolucci, director of Vatican Museums; Francisco Calvo Serraller, out standing expert of Spanish modern art; Robert Storr, American curator and art critic of the Yale School of Art.

In the exhibition path is possible to enjoy the short animation movie Destino, by Salvador Dalì and Walt Disney, never on Italian screens before: Dalì worked side by side with Disney between 1945 and 1946, but the movie was completed only in 2003 thanks to the original drawings preserved at the Animation Research Library of Walt Disney Animation Studios of Burbank, California. Some of these drawings are also extraordinary displayed thanks to the important collaboration with The Walt Disney Company.

The exhibition is accompanied by the rich catalogue with texts by Vincenzo Trione, Montse Aguer, Paolo Bertetto, Robert Storr, Oscar Tusquets Blanca, Catherine Millet, Bruce Sterling, published and distributed by 24 ORE Cultura – Gruppo 24 ORE.

IULM University is the official university of this exhibition.

http://www.mostradali.it/home.php