3 Self-translations in 3 Languages by Marilyne Bertoncini

By | 4 May 2016
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Dedalus and the minotaur-ant


The torrential rains swept all the grass

from the banks –

a real flood : the wrath of an insect’s god


Still,

stamped in the slimy silt,

shines

the tiny dedalus of a lost and

stranded

minotaur-ant

searching for its sense.





Dédale et le fourminotaure


Les pluies torrentielles ont arraché l’herbe

des rives –

un vrai Déluge – la colère du dieu des insectes


Pourtant,

imprimé dans la visqueuse glaise

luit

le minuscule dédale où se perd

et s’échoue

une fourminotaure

en quête de son sens.
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Marilyne Bertoncini is a poet, translator, and co-editor of the online review Recours au Poème. She divides her time between Nice, on the French Riviera, and Parma, in Italy. Among her most recent poetry collections are L‘Anneau de Chillida (L’Atelier du Grand Tétras 2018), Mémoire vive des replis / Memoria viva delle pieghe (bilingual edition, PVTST 2019) and Sable (Transignum 2019). Sable, the collection from which these English translations are taken, has also been published in illustrated bilingual editions alongside German and Romanian translations.

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