{"id":3294,"date":"2015-01-02T15:19:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T15:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2015-04-09T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T17:45:00","slug":"small-birds-los-pajaros-a-poem-by-isla-correyero-translated-by-robin-ouzman-hislop-amparo-arrospide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/small-birds-los-pajaros-a-poem-by-isla-correyero-translated-by-robin-ouzman-hislop-amparo-arrospide\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Birds.(Los Pajaros). A Poem by Isla Correyero. Translated by Robin Ouzman Hislop & Amparo Arrospide"},"content":{"rendered":"

This work comprises in an excerpt from the anthology on contemporary Spanish female poets entitled Las Diosas Blancas. Madrid, 1985. Copyright Ed. Ramon Buenaventura. Hiperion.<\/strong> This is an original and unpublished English version of the original poem written in Spanish. Translators Robin Ouzman Hislop and Amparo Arrospide would like to thank Casa del Traductor, in Tarazona and the British Literary Translation Association, East Anglia University Campus.<\/p>\n

From this Spanish anthology –compiled by the well-known scholar and translator Mr. Ram\u00f3n Buenaventura, whom we contacted earlier– a few selected authors were chosen for our joint translation work: Amalia Iglesias: Te buscare para decirte (I Will Find You To Tell You) , Ana Rossetti: Triunfo de Artemis sobre Volupta (Triumph Of Artemis Over Volupta) and Isolda (Isolda) , Blanca Andreu: Para Olga (For Olga) ,Isla Correyero: Los Pajaros (Small Birds) <\/strong><\/em>, Amparo Amoros: Midas (Midas) and Criaturas del gozo (Creatures Of Joy) , Rosalia Vallejo: Horno en llamarada (A Furnace In Flames) , Maria del Carmen Pallares: Sisargas (Sisargas) , Margarita Arroyo: Era el mar lejos del mar ( It Was Sea Away From Sea). <\/p>\n

We would like to thank Mr. Ram\u00f3n Buenaventura and the above name poets, in advance, and let them rest assured that their work is protected by a legal Creative Commons Licence, by virtue of which the above named translators are willing to provide excerpts from their original translation work, provided that readers agree to use it under the terms of such licence. We strongly recommend reading the entire work and the poets’, who have continued evolving during these decades.<\/p>\n

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My consciousness rests upon the fifth stair of your agony.
\nAsleep in my eyes are two small proud birds.
\n 
\nI have just painted my whole face red and afterwards burnt it.
\nMy hair hangs in salt crystals and tufts of cotton wool.
\n 
\nYou are naked before me. I am lying to you.
\n 
\nI am naked before you, an untouched white blossoming virgin.
\n 
\nA shaded grove and snowy whiteness envelope us.
\n 
\nA hollow gorge is piled with pearls and medusas and cast out eyes of fish.
\n 
\nThere are mutilated children afloat in the bathing pools of Ariadne\u2019s
\nestate, yellow sandals and birch branches.
\n 
\nSanskrit scrolls are floating across the Ross Sea
\ntogether with the remains of cetaceans and sea elephants.
\n 
\nThose goats that penetrated the galleon\u2019s cabin
\nI know will die.
\n 
\nFive pirates wearing brass studs in their cheekbones, ready-made
\namulets, dried blood of dogs and bison.
\n 
\nI thirst. It seems as though I am dead.
\n 
\nFrom the mortuary emerges a giant flask of whisky laden in grapefruit. A
\nsmall girl walks behind the catafalque, naked and
\nshe lies. Into an urn her hands contain falls a drop of amber.
\n 
\nPages of paper ferment in rainfalls. There are scars of ice
\nover each word.
\n 
\nAsleep in my eyes are two small proud birds.
\n 
\nWaters flow from my hands to make streaks in the dust; loaves
\nof mica lay a vault to my solitary ancientness.
\n 
\nSunlight bursts a bubble and gathers herbs from the landscape.
\n 
\nOut of the desert came a caravan of the demented who handed
\nover its prisoners to the vultures, left now to grow
\nbeards and at dawn depart for the Pole.
\n 
\nOutside my door are the goats they left behind. They lie on
\nthe floor quartered and covered in honey.
\n 
\nClose to the beach a fisherman has furtively caught a bear cub,
\nand whilst it yet lives, devours its flesh, raw.
\nOther birds have come to my eyes.
\n 
\nOn lavatory walls are seen images of the passion according to Mathew.
\n 
\nIn chestnut boughs, at peace now, the spirit of the Melchite
\nroams, a gypsy without teeth.
\n 
\nIn a silver milk jug the right hand of the Margot
\nis submerged in milk.
\n 
\nThe oldest house in the village has burnt down. Fire is
\narrogant and consoling.
\n 
\nThe following day ashes were mixed with geraniums and hairs
\nof the ancient crone.
\n 
\nYou are still naked before me. You are weeping.
\n 
\nI am still naked before you, I don\u2019t lie, now.
\n 
\nAshes fall from my face to yours and I repeat in-
\ncomprehensibly: The small proud birds are dead
\nin my eyes. The small proud birds.
\n 
\nMy consciousness is on the fifth stair of your agony.
\nIn my eyes are all the watchful small proud birds of the earth.
\n<\/strong>
\n 
\n 
\nAUTHOR: ISLA CORREYERO (1957)
\nBibliography:
\n– Cr\u00e1ter (Provincia, Colecci\u00f3n de Poes\u00eda, Le\u00f3n, 1984)
\n– Lianas (Hiperi\u00f3n, Madrid, 1988).
\n– Cr\u00edmenes (Ediciones Libertarias, Madrid, 1993)
\n– Diario de una enfermera (Huerga y Fierro Editores, Madrid, 1996)
\n– La pasi\u00f3n (ExLibris Ediciones, 1998)
\n– Feroces (DVD, Barcelona, 1998)
\n<\/strong>
\n\"isla<\/a>
\n 
\n 
\nIsla Correyero was born in Extremadura and lived in various Spanish towns and cities, since the age of 16 she has lived in Madrid. She studied Dance, Information Sciences and Child Care and currently works as coordinator of screenplays and TV. Her Poetry publications are: Cr\u00e1ter<\/em>, 1984, Colecci\u00f3n provincia , Le\u00f3n. Lianas <\/em>, 1988, Hiperion, Madrid. Cr\u00edmenes<\/em>, 1993, Libertarias, Madrid. Diario de una enfermera<\/em>,(Premio Ciudad de C\u00f3rdoba 1997), Huerga y Fierro, Madrid. La Pasi\u00f3n<\/em>, Finalista Premio Poes\u00eda M\u00edstica Fernano Rielo 1998. Ex – Libris Amor tirano, Premio Hermanos Argensola 2002 DVD , Barcelona. – She edited the well known anthology Feroces<\/em>. 1998 DVD, Barcelona, and was herself included in anthologies such as Las diosas blancas<\/em>, Hiperion. She has given recitals and taught poetry workshops in Spain, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Canada and the Netherlands. She has 4 unpublished books. One is an opera, Divorcio<\/em>, which was performed at the University of Salamanca in 2013. Recently she created her own publishing company, Inspirar Expirar.
\n 
\nIsla Correyero naci\u00f3 en Extremadura. Ha vivido en pueblos y distintas ciudades espa\u00f1olas. Desde los 16 a\u00f1os vive en Madrid. Curs\u00f3 estudios de Danza, Ciencias de la informaci\u00f3n y Puericultura. Actualmente trabaja como coordinadora de guiones de cine y TV , aunque su gran trabajo y pasi\u00f3n es la Poes\u00eda. En el a\u00f1o 2000 le fue concedida la Medalla de Honor de su Colegio Mayor Universitario Isabel de Espa\u00f1a, Madrid. Publicaciones po\u00e9ticas : Cr\u00e1ter, 1984, Colecci\u00f3n provincia , Le\u00f3n. Lianas , 1988, Hiperion, Madrid. Cr\u00edmenes, 1993, Libertarias, Madrid Diario de una enfermera, premio ciudad de C\u00f3rdoba 1997 , Huerga y Fierro, Madrid. La Pasi\u00f3n, Finalista premio poes\u00eda m\u00edstica Fernano Rielo 1998. Ex – Libris Amor tirano, Premio Hermanos Argensola 2002 DVD , Barcelona. – Es la autora de la antolog\u00eda Feroces. 1998 DVD, Barcelona. Ha publicado diversas plaquettes. Ha sido antologada, entre otras, en Las diosas blancas, Hiperion y Ellas tienen la palabra, Hiperion. Ha dado recitales e impartido talleres de poes\u00eda en Espa\u00f1a, Venezuela, Ecuador, Argentina, Canad\u00e1 y Holanda. Por variadas causas editoriales no ha publicado en estos once \u00faltimos a\u00f1os. Tiene 4 libros in\u00e9ditos. Uno de ellos es una \u00f3pera, Divorcio (Hoz en la espalda), que se represent\u00f3 coralmente en el teatro Juan Del Enzina, de la Universidad de Salamanca 2013 Una de las razones fundamentales por las que ha decidido crear su propio sello editorial, Inspirar Expirar ediciones, autopublic\u00e1ndose exten-samente. As\u00ed como para poder publicar a otros poetas de su gusto y \u00e9tica. <\/p>\n

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\"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

Robin Ouzman Hislop Editor of the 12 year running on line monthly poetry journal Poetry Life and Times<\/strong>. (See its Wikipedia<\/em> entry at Poetry Life and Times<\/a>). He has made many appearances over the last years in the quarterly journals Canadian Zen Haiku<\/em>, including In the Spotlight Winter 2010<\/em> & Sonnetto Poesia<\/em>. Previously published in international magazines, his recent publications include Voices without Borders Volume 1<\/em> (USA), Cold Mountain Review<\/em>, Appalachian University N Carolina, Post Hoc<\/em> installed at Bank Street Arts Centre, Sheffield (UK), Uroborus Journal<\/em>, 2011-2012 (Sheffield, UK), The Poetic Bond II & 111<\/em>, available at The Poetic Bond and Phoenix Rising from the Ashes<\/em> a recently published Anthology of Sonnets: Phoenix Rising from the Ashes<\/a>. He has recently completed a volume of poetry, The World at Large, for future publication. He is currently resident in Spain engaged in poetry translation projects.<\/strong>
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\nPoetryLifeTimes<\/a>
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