{Le brouillon d’une version en français se trouve ci-dessous} “OK, so maybe this is all I know: he wasn’t normal” She thought there were normal people and that she might not be one of them. If you had asked… Read More ›
L’aile française
Those who follow the news are not superior but complicit = Ce qui se tient au courant de l’actualité ne sont pas supérieurs mais complices
Those who follow the news are not superior but complicit Ceux qui se tiennent au courant de l’actualité ne sont pas supérieurs mais complices Not to worry, soon enough you will not be able to turn your machines off Pas… Read More ›
Quand – l’argent – le métier – leur dévouement à l’art –
When – his money – her work – her devotion to art {The English version, though chronologically the first and perhaps freer of a foreigner’s faults, here follows the French, stanza by stanza. La version française, quoique écrit après l’anglais… Read More ›
Civilization and its Discontents / Malaise dans la civilisation
With apologies to Freud, three poems, none too serious. Que Freud puisse accepter mes excuses pour ces trois poèmes petits et légers. I The playground is quiet I can read in the sun The children confined to day care… Read More ›
Summer Just Barely Over (La rentrée à peine)
Exhausted by my work day and exercise Épuisée par une journée de travail et au club de sport I went to bed early and woke at 6.30 Je me suis couchée tôt et me suis réveillée à 6.30 And there… Read More ›
Limerick 57—à propos de Macron & the capitalist dance
Dear Readers, Since this is the first bilingual “limerick,” I have thought to make a special place for it. (The whole, still-growing series may be found at The Limericks, a pdf.) Below, the French version of #57 first, then the… Read More ›
On our way to a funeral / En allant à un enterrement
{The English version, though chronologically the first and perhaps freer of a foreigner’s faults, here follows the French, which benefits from a greater distance from original impulses. La version anglaise, bien que chronologiquement la première et peut-être plus libre des… Read More ›
