4 IULIE. LA MULŢI ANI, AMERICA, ORIUNDE TE-AI AFLA!

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WALT WHITMAN VĂ PREVINE de Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Către State sau către oricare dintre ele sau către orice oraş din State:

Rezistaţi cât mai mult, supuneţi-vă cât mai puţin;

Cine acceptă supunerea fără să-ntrebe va fi cu desăvârşire robit,

Odată cu desăvârşire robită, nici o Naţiune, nici un Stat sau oraş de pe pământ

Nu-şi mai redobândeşte, în veci, libertatea.

(traducere de Margareta Sterian, vol. “Aud cântând America”, Ed. Dacia, 1973)

A PACT by EZRA POUND (1885-1972)

I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman -

I have detested you long enough.

I come to you as a grown child

Who has had a pig-headed father;

I am old enough now to make friends.

It was you that broke the new wood,

Now is a time for carving.

We have one sap and one root -

Let there be commerce between us.

(The Penguin Book of American Verse, Edited by Geoffrey Moore, Penguin Books, 1977)

Gershwin by himself – Video de deandusk

“i thank You God for most this amazing” by E.E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962)

i thank You God for most this amazing

day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees

and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything

which is natural which is infinite which is yes//

(i who have died am alive again today,

and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth

day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay

great happening illimitably earth)//

how should tasting touching hearing seeing

breathing any – lifted from the no

of all nothing – human merely being

doubt unimaginable You?//

(now the ears of my ears awake and

now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

(ibidem)