Swans Commentary » swans.com April 7, 2008  

 

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by Guido Monte & Francesca Saieva

 

Multilingual Poetry

 

 

To Philip Greenspan © 2008 Giuseppe Zimmardi

 

 

(Swans - April 7, 2008)  

Man: we're in long leaves and clusters of white flowers,

but never a bed for us, from time immemorial at war...

mais je n'espère pas,

in the deep dark I don't find my silence...

Is it so simple our way to Hades?

World Boss: your way, people, from now on

it's only two words: war and death

Poet: so there're no dreams, no more

in the lost parts of earth—

is it just only a lie

what I wrote, thought, heard?

 

 

Collage: Giuseppe Zimmardi, To Philip Greenspan, 2008.

 

 

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Guido Monte on Swans (with bio). Francesca Saieva teaches philosophy and pedagogy, and is an adjunct professor at the University of Palermo. Read her bio on the page she shares with Guido Monte.

 

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