Poem
Vera Pavlova
Whose face and body would I like to have?
Whose face and body would I like to have?The face and body of Nike.
I would fly past all those Venuses,
would have nothing to do with Apollos.
With the wind chill on my shoulder
I would leave behind forever
the hall of plaster copies!
© Translation: 2009, Steven Seymour
In welk gezicht en lichaam had ik me thuis gevoeld?
In welk gezicht en lichaam had ik me thuis gevoeld?In het gezicht en het lichaam van Nike van Samothrake.
Hoe triomfantelijk vloog ik dan aan Aphrodite voorbij,
Hoe weinig tot niks had ik met hordes Apollo’s te maken,
Hoe heerlijk voelde mijn schouder, door tegenwind gekoeld,
Hoe onherroepelijk liet ik dan achter mij
het lokaal vol afgietsels!
© Vertaling: 2009, Nina Targan Mouravi
Какие лицо и тело иметь бы хотела?
Ники Самофракийской лицо и тело.
Как бы я мимо всяких венер летела,
как бы мне до аполлонов не было дела,
как бы моё плечо на ветру холодело,
как безвозвратно бы я покидала пределы
зала слепков!..
Ники Самофракийской лицо и тело.
Как бы я мимо всяких венер летела,
как бы мне до аполлонов не было дела,
как бы моё плечо на ветру холодело,
как безвозвратно бы я покидала пределы
зала слепков!..
© 2006, Vera Pavlova
From: Pis\'ma v sosednyuyu komnatu: 1001 priznaniye v lyubvi (Letters to a room next door: 1001 confessions of love)
Publisher: AST Publishing House, Moscow
From: Pis\'ma v sosednyuyu komnatu: 1001 priznaniye v lyubvi (Letters to a room next door: 1001 confessions of love)
Publisher: AST Publishing House, Moscow
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Whose face and body would I like to have?
Whose face and body would I like to have?The face and body of Nike.
I would fly past all those Venuses,
would have nothing to do with Apollos.
With the wind chill on my shoulder
I would leave behind forever
the hall of plaster copies!
© 2009, Steven Seymour
From: Pis\'ma v sosednyuyu komnatu: 1001 priznaniye v lyubvi (Letters to a room next door: 1001 confessions of love)
From: Pis\'ma v sosednyuyu komnatu: 1001 priznaniye v lyubvi (Letters to a room next door: 1001 confessions of love)
Whose face and body would I like to have?
Whose face and body would I like to have?The face and body of Nike.
I would fly past all those Venuses,
would have nothing to do with Apollos.
With the wind chill on my shoulder
I would leave behind forever
the hall of plaster copies!
© 2009, Steven Seymour
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