The more I owe you

Voltando ao livro de Michael Sledge sobre a Elizabeth Bishop:

"After Lota, and after Brazil, she will love other people and other places, but it will be a different species of love, so different she will wonder if the feeling can be called by the same word."

Dica

Já falei aqui sobre o livro do Michael Sledge "The more I owe you". E agora saiu em português com o título "A arte de perder" - que é a tradução do título do poema mais famoso da Elizabeth Bishop. Vale. Vale. E a delicadeza do autor? Uma coisa linda.

Mais Michael Sledge

Fiquei dois dias achando que não ia mais ter blog. Decidida não? Pois é. Li isso hoje e achei lindo.

"Then she read the dedication.

For Lota de Macedo Soares ...
To give you as much as I have and as much as I can,
The more I pay you, the more I owe you.

Camões, Elizabeth said.

Lota tried to speak. She couldn´t make any sound. She felt unbearably, painfully moved. She tried to speak again, and a sob burst from her. She wept, holding the book away so that her tears would not damage it."

Coisa linda.

Definições de poesia

E no livro lindo do Michael Sledge que eu já falei aqui: "The more I owe you", a explicação de Elizabeth Bishop sobre poesia:

"Poetry should be so present and constant to the poet that it intrudes upon all other thoughts and experiences. One´s art should act as the prism through which all of life might be thoughtfully observed."

Observação - postagem número 600. Olha que fofo, gente!

The more I owe you

Comprei este livro no mês passado e ele era o próximo da fila. Michael Sledge recria a vida de Elizabeth Bishop aqui no Brasil, com a sua companheira Lota de Macedo Soares. E na página 14:

"When did you mark the beginning, the moment the wheels were set in motion? At the first meeting of eyes, the formal introduction with names? Or later, when the inevitability of something more could no longer be denied, when it had to be spoken aloud?"