Welcome to 2014s second installation of World on Wednesday! This week, in honor of National Poetry Month, well be highlighting a poet that comes from a place where YOU could study abroad. Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1899 and is considered by many to be the father of magical realism. In addition to being a poet, he was a short-story writer, essayist, and translator. His two most famous collections are Ficciones and El Aleph. Here is a poem of his: Caja de música or Music box. The original: Música del Japón. Avaramente De la clepsidra se desprenden gotas De lenta miel o de invisible oro Que en el tiempo repiten una trama Eterna y frágil, misteriosa y clara. Temo que cada una sea la última. Son un ayer que vuelve. ¿De qué templo, De qué leve jardín en la montaña, De qué vigilias ante un mar que ignoro, De qué pudor de la melancolía, De qué perdida y rescatada tarde, Llegan a mí, su porvenir remoto? No lo sabré. No importa. En esa música Yo soy. Yo quiero ser. Yo me desangro. Translated: Music of Japan. Parsimoniously from the water clock the drops unfold in lazy honey or ethereal gold that over time reiterates a weave eternal, fragile, enigmatic, bright. I fear that every one will be the last. They are a yesterday come from the past. But from what shrine, from what mountain’s slight garden, what vigils by an unknown sea, and from what modest melancholy, from what lost and rediscovered afternoon do they arrive at their far future: me? Who knows? No matter. When I hear it play I am. I want to be. I bleed away. DU has two partner programs in Borges birth city, as well as another program in Mendoza, Argentina! You can find more about them, and our other programs, here: du.edu/intl/abroad/du_programs.html #worldonwednesday #magicalrealism #borges #argentina #buenosaires
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:00:01 +0000
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