Traduzione: Rita Florit

Per l’editore Benway Series, Colorno : Tielleci, 2024, presentiamo un estratto da 80 fiori = 80 Flowers di Louis Zukofsky. Traduzione: Rita Florit; postfazione: Paul Vangelisti.

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Clover

Clover nitrogen soak airily pumps

phosphor dark shiner niter direland

forage 4-5-6 rarely more leaflets

shamrock doublin’ confusion red globe

blossom trifling home prate tense

dutchwhite repents yellow’s nonesuch black

medic disputes none ’s shamrock

perennial springers onto bog falls

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Snowflake

Wanting throat crown narcissus proves

snowflake essáy a pace so cloud

pool ignorance spring surprise

in vent toss wit a white-green

6-star-widened nodding flowerfoot papersheath’d

leaf rapier next greater celandine

cobweb-kell ’d own May’s snowflake

white yellow stacked glimpse shut

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Lilies

Called Niobe high more callous

gnar’s th’sum talk’s shrill pine

bog-asphodel echo echo serious

light jacob’s rod sceptre go on

so made of days lilies

do not mourn orange-yellow lilac-blue-white

pleached meek stone deepened asphodel

anthers’ coast tallest of all

white yellow stacked glimpse shut

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Poppy Anemone

Poppy anemone chorine airy any

moan knee thinkglimpsing night wake

to short-wages no papàver world-wars

opiate bloodroot puccoon indian-dyed fragile

solitary gloss-sea powderhorn yellow-orange West

earthquake-state sun-yellow tall-khan poppy corona

airier composite eyelidless bride bridge

it uncrowned birdfoot spurs dayseye

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Immagine: Mariangela Guatteri