Reflecting on Reflections - Softcover

Moises C. Florian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1901990028 ISBN 13: 9781901990027

Publisher: Anaconda Editions Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

Moisés C. Florián is a poet from Peru, now living in London. He writes in Spanish and Alison Dent has collaborated with him on most of these translations. In this long, reflective meditation one sees his concentration on the pause, the emptiness (mirrors are so often empty) - 'mirrors and mirages don't often notice me.'

About this title

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Still ...
I am not sure if you’re my reflection
or perhaps I am yours
Not yet ...
Will Poetry
who knows many things
tell us?
Do you think She will know?

Pause? ...
(For the flowers of Kew Gardens and the stars above
Richmond get themselves protected against this baby
winter of 2001 ...)

Pause ... Blank letter-less pause? ...
No words ... White void ... Blank? ...

May the pauses and empty
pages make a toast to long life
in a complete whiteness?!

For the Wholeness
and the Nothingness...
of this "blessed" poem
Feel it ... Read it
without thinking of letters
Think about it
in pure musicality
and spatial emptiness...

To think! To feel! To live!
As if each vacuum-pause
between cause and effect
is an invisible poem made out
of the plentifulness of Life

(Novel rhythms...in creative voids...
Is it the poetry’s old voice
which pretends to be dead
in order to be reborn?)

For a few memorable seconds
minutes... pages... lines ...
of these sheets stained
by whiteness too...
Let’s leave a pretty page
emptied of ethereal verses
(If only the editors and public
would love this utopian thought
it’d be poetry of the void!...)
Invisible verses clothed
and naked only with light
and "Nadaísmo" & "Naught-ism"

Edition details

• Publisher: Anaconda Editions Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1901990028
• ISBN 13: 9781901990027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104