I waken the car
whose windshield is coated with pollen.
I put on my sunglasses.
The birdsong darkens.
whose windshield is coated with pollen.
I put on my sunglasses.
The birdsong darkens.
Meanwhile another man buys a paper
at the railway station
close to a large goods wagon,
which is all red with rust
and stands flickering in the sun.
at the railway station
close to a large goods wagon,
which is all red with rust
and stands flickering in the sun.
No blank space anywhere here.
Straight through the spring warmth a cold corridor
where someone comes running
and tells how up at the head office
they slandered him.
where someone comes running
and tells how up at the head office
they slandered him.
Through a back door in the landscape
comes the magpie
black and white.
And the blackbird darting to and fro
till everything becomes a charcoal drawing,
except the white clothes on the washingline:
a Palestrina chorus.
comes the magpie
black and white.
And the blackbird darting to and fro
till everything becomes a charcoal drawing,
except the white clothes on the washingline:
a Palestrina chorus.
No blank space anywhere here.
Fantastic to feel how my poem grows
while I myself shrink.
It grows, it takes my place.
It pushes me aside.
It throws me out of the nest.
The poem is ready.
while I myself shrink.
It grows, it takes my place.
It pushes me aside.
It throws me out of the nest.
The poem is ready.
O poeta sueco Tomas Transtroemer, prémio Nobel da Literatura 2011, será homenageado hoje à tarde na Biblioteca Municipal Palácio Galveias, em Lisboa, por iniciativa da Fundação José Saramago.
Transtroemer, de 80 anos, hemiplégico há mais de duas décadas devido a um acidente vascular cerebral que o fez também perder a fala, será celebrado a partir das 18:30, na véspera de receber o Nobel das mãos do rei Carlos XVI Gustavo, numa cerimónia que se realizará em Estocolmo.
«O poeta Tomas Transtroemer receberá o Prémio Nobel da Literatura 2011.
O amigo da música, dos versos, das causas belas, o sueco que não fala nem se movimenta mas que comunica com o olhar e que com ele é capaz de trazer beleza ao mundo, será festejado em Lisboa por aqueles que não se renderam», lê-se na convocatória divulgada pela Fundação Saramago.
Diário Digital / Lusa
