Trong số những bài thơ của bà GL thì CP thích bài này! Khi không còn có thể sống chung, 2 vợ chồng chia tay và tranh nhau con chó Blizzard.
Nói chung thì thể thơ của bà Louise Gluck theo thể tự do và "tân hình thức thơ vắt dòng". Ngắt ngang câu và chuyển sang dòng khác
Kiểu thơ này những người mê thơ âm điệu và luật lệ của thơ Việt (lục bát, 7 chữ, ngũ ngôn etc ...) chắc không hơ.p khẩu vị há !!!
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Vita Nova
By LOUISE GLÜCK
In the splitting up dream
we were fighting over who would keep
the dog,
Blizzard. You tell me
what that name means. He was
a cross between
something big and fluffy
and a dachshund. Does this have to be
the male and female
genitalia? Poor Blizzard,
why was he a dog? He barely touched
the hummus in his dogfood dish.
Then there was something else,
a sound. Like
gravel being moved. Or sand?
The sands of time? Then it was
Erica with her maracas,
like the sands of time
personified. Who will
explain this to
the dog? Blizzard,
Daddy needs you; Daddy’s heart is empty,
not because he’s leaving Mommy but because
the kind of love he wants Mommy
doesn’t have, Mommy’s
too ironic–Mommy wouldn’t do
the rhumba in the driveway. Or
is this wrong. Supposing
I’m the dog, as in
my child-self, unconsolable because
completely pre-verbal? With
anorexia! O Blizzard,
be a brave dog–this is
all material; you’ll wake up
in a different world,
you will eat again, you will grow up into a poet!
Life is very weird, no matter how it ends,
very filled with dreams. Never
will I forget your face, your frantic human eyes
swollen with tears.
I thought my life was over and my heart was broken.
Then I moved to Cambridge.