Poetree: Weekly Round-up for February 5-11

[alee_grrl]

Next up on the poetree round-ups is the round up for the week of February 5-11. It was almost a hiatus week, but the fabulous goneahead was kind enough to step up and pitch hit for the week. We thank her kindly for doing so, and for sharing some wonderful poems.

Poetry host goneahead's posts and associated poems:

Intro post
-intro
-poem: "Regarding Her Cancer"

First Stop - Korean Poetry
-commentary
-poems: Two Sijos by Hwang Chin-i
-poems: Anonymous "Songs" translated by Joan Grisby

Second Stop - Poland
-commentary
-poem: 16th MAY 1973 by Wislawa Szymborska, trans. Adam Czerniawski
-poem: Untitled by Rafal Wojaczek , trans. Wlodek Fenrych
-poem: Untitled by Marzanna Bogumila Kielar trans. Wlodek Fenrych
-poem: On the Day the World Ends by Czeslaw Milosz, trans. by Anthony Milosz

Third Stop - Americas
-commentary
-poem: I Will Kiss Your Mouth by Ah Bam translated by John Curl
-poem: The Mourning Song of the Poor Motherless Orphan by Ah Bam translated by John Curl

Highlights from the comments:

A fun discussion between ariestess and goneahead on Asian poetic short forms, specifically the additive quality of the tanka.

meeks wonders about reading poems in their original language versus reading them in a translated form.

alee_grrl shares the cultural lesson she found most valuable while living abroad in response to the question goneahead posed in zirs intro post.