sabato 13 maggio 2017

Edward Hirsch, Edward Hopper and the House by the Railroad , trad. Alessandro Panciroli

 A late afternoon glow pervades House by the Railroad, which features a grand Victorian home fronted by the tracks of a railroad. The tracks create a visual barrier that seems to block access to house, which appears moored and isolated in the surrounding empty landscape. Its old-fashioned architecture and lack of any sense of occupancy imply that the house may be a relic of tradition, lonely and forgotten in the push towards urbanization and progress, as suggested by the railroad tracks.   

dal sito del MoMa di New York dove è esposta l' opera originale di  Hopper




Edward Hopper and the House by the Railroad 



Out here in the exact middle of the day,
This strange, gawky house has the expression
Of someone being stared at, someone holding
His breath underwater, hushed and expectant;

This house is ashamed of itself, ashamed
Of its fantastic mansard rooftop
And its pseudo-Gothic porch, ashamed
of its shoulders and large, awkward hands.

But the man behind the easel is relentless.
He is as brutal as sunlight, and believes
The house must have done something horrible
To the people who once lived here

Because now it is so desperately empty,
It must have done something to the sky
Because the sky, too, is utterly vacant
And devoid of meaning. There are no

Trees or shrubs anywhere--the house
Must have done something against the earth.
All that is present is a single pair of tracks
Straightening into the distance. No trains pass.

Now the stranger returns to this place daily
Until the house begins to suspect
That the man, too, is desolate, desolate
And even ashamed. Soon the house starts

To stare frankly at the man. And somehow
The empty white canvas slowly takes on
The expression of someone who is unnerved,
Someone holding his breath underwater.

And then one day the man simply disappears.
He is a last afternoon shadow moving
Across the tracks, making its way
Through the vast, darkening fields.

This man will paint other abandoned mansions,
And faded cafeteria windows, and poorly lettered
Storefronts on the edges of small towns.
Always they will have this same expression,

The utterly naked look of someone
Being stared at, someone American and gawky.
Someone who is about to be left alone
Again, and can no longer stand it.




E.Hopper \ House by raildoad
MoMa New York






Proprio qui a mezzogiorno in punto,
questa casa strana e goffa ha la
espressione
di qualcuno che guarda fisso, qualcuno
che trattiene
il respiro sott'acqua, in silenzio e
in attesa;

  Questa casa si vergogna di se stessa, si vergogna
del suo fantastico tetto a mansarda
e del suo portico pseudo-Gotico, si vergogna
delle sue spalle e delle sue grandi e goffe
mani.

 Ma l'uomo dietro il cavalletto è frenetico.
E' brutale come la luce del sole. e crede
che la casa deve aver compiuto qualcosa
di orribile
alle persone che una volta vivevano qui

 Perchè ora la casa è così disperatamente vuota,
deve aver fatto qualcosa al cielo
perchè anche il cielo è completamente vuoto
e privo di significato. Non ci sono

 alberi o cespugli qui -- la casa
deve aver compiuto qualcosa contro la
terra.
Tutto quello che vediamo è un solo paio di binari
che corrono verso l'infinito. Non passano
treni

 Ora lo straniero ritorna in questo posto
tutti i giorni
finché la casa inizia a sospettare
che anche l'uomo è afflitto, afflitto
e pieno di vergogna. Allora la casa inizia

a guardare dritto quell'uomo. E in qualche modo
la vuota tela bianca prende
l'espressione di qualcuno che è nervoso,
qualcuno che trattiene il respiro sott'acqua.

 E poi un giorno l'uomo semplicemente
scompare.
E un'ombra che si muove nel tardo pomeriggio
tra i binari, prende la sua strada
attraverso i vasti campi nell'oscurità.

 Quest'uomo dipingerà altre dimore
abbandonate,
e vetrine di squallide caffetterie, e negozi
con povere
insegne nei sobborghi di piccole città.
E sempre avranno questa stessa
espressione,

  L'apparenza completamente nuda di qualcuno
che sta osservando, qualcuno Americano e
goffo.
Qualcuno che sta per essere di nuovo lasciato
solo, e non può più sopportarlo.

venerdì 5 maggio 2017

THERE YOU ARE

Risultati immagini per there you are

there you are

up on the hill

nothing can touch you

nothing can still

compare to your strenght

depending on that furious

flame that devours you

what can I do

to extinguish it ?


by ipazia

sabato 29 aprile 2017

TUTTO E' IN FRANTUMI E DANZA...da THE GHOST SONG di Jim Morrison










Awake.


Shake dreams from your hair
my pretty child, my sweet one.
Choose the day and choose the sign of your day
the day’s divinity
First thing you see.
A vast radiant beach and cooled jeweled moon
Couples naked race down by it’s quiet side
And we laugh like soft, mad children
Smug in the wooly cotton brains of infancy
The music and voices are all around us.


Choose they croon the Ancient Ones
the time has come again
choose now, they croon
beneath the moon
beside an ancient lake


Enter again the sweet forest
Enter the hot dream
Come with us
everything is broken up and dances.


Indians scattered,
On dawn’s highway bleeding
Ghosts crowd the young child’s,
Fragile eggshell mind


We have assembled inside,
This ancient and insane theater
To propagate our lust for life,
And flee the swarming wisdom of the streets.


The barns have stormed
The windows kept,
And only one of all the rest
To dance and save us
From the divine mockery of words,
Music inflames temperament.


Ooh great creator of being
Grant us one more hour,
To perform our art
And perfect our lives.


We need great golden copulations,
When the true kings murderers
Are allowed to roam free,
A thousand magicians arise in the land
Where are the feast we are promised?


One more thing
Thank you oh lord
For the white blind light
Thank you oh lord
For the white blind light


A city rises from the sea
I had a splitting headache
From which the future’s made