traduzione di Angela D’Ambra
Quarta poesia di Glen Sorestad dedicata a Ernest Hemingway. Le precedenti qui, qui e qui . [E. A.]
Two Old Boys of Cojimar [1] When the two old fellows saw us approaching they snapped to like wind-gusted flags. The little fishing village just east of Havana is best known as home of Santiago, Hemingway’s heroic protagonist,who spent two days and two nights adrift far out on the Gulf, bound, will to will, to a magnificent and gigantic marlin[2], until he subdued the great fish, only to lose it to marauding sharks before he could bring his once-in-a-lifetime catch home to the village as tangible proof.Continua la lettura di “Dancing Birches. Part 5” (4) di Glen Sorestad