Judi Benson

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TRANSLATION CAFÉ

CTITC
CENTER FOR THE TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE CONTEMPORARY TEXT

MTTLC
MA Programme for the TRANSLATION OF THE CONTEMPORARY LITERARY TEXT

TRANSLATION

CAFÉ

Review of Contemporary Texts in Translation and E-Learning

Nr. 64/December 13, 2008

Director: LIDIA VIANU

© CTITC

MTTLC

ISSN 1842 – 9149

Issue Editor: LAVINIA ZAINEA

Tehnical Editor: CARMEN DUMITRU

Proofreading: ANCA VULCANESCU

These translations are an online seminar of literary translation, part

of Lidia Vianu’s course [Guide to Contemporary Literature and Its Translation],

and a session of E-Learning in the MA Programme for the Translation of the

Contemporary Literary Text, directed by Lidia Vianu.

The texts have also been discussed in translation group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/translationcafe/

JUDI BENSON, And Still the Stones

CONTENTS:

Translations of And Still the Stones by: Iulia Anchidin, Daniela Bojica, Ileana Botescu-Sireteanu, Simona Elisabeta Catana, Raul Cojocaru, Dana Constantinescu, Roxana Dude, Cristina Florea, Iuliana Florea, Vlad Gandila, Teodora Georgescu, Andreea Hadambu, Corina Nicoleta Iscru, Rodica Ionas, Raluca-Ioana Manolescu, Liviu Martinescu, Violeta Mitu, Patricia Neculae, Silvia Nicolae, Cristina Nistor, Steliana Palade, Reluta Paune, Simona Pavaloiu, Alina Petrescu, Florentina Penciu, Ana Maria Purec, Brandusa Raileanu, Paula Sezonov, Ioana Stan, Teofana Trapcea, Ioana Tudor.

Translations from:

Judi Benson

And Still the Stones

The house shrinks and stretches,
sighs at night creaking the floorboards,
top of the house, crow's nest,
light and air, walls bare.
Slice of heaven we agreed,
lazy rocking evenings,
day's work done, ascending
to meet the sun, watch it go down
in a smother of clouds.
Some laws of nature still persist.
Sod's law, the rain on your parade,
your barbecue, wedding, laundry,
deck chair, bacci, papers.
The minutiae of it all. Things.
What are they without people
but relics to be studied by archaeologists.
A ribbon surviving flesh, faint lavender.
A shank of auburn hair without a head.
Gallstones in a jar, his and hers.
Note: his were bigger than his mum's.
Curiosities to be puzzled over
trying to put it all together. What sense?
Yes, I still take stones
to your grave site to confuse them.
Pink toned, blue grey, granite.
Stones from Alderney, Carteret, Cromer,
Norwich, Aldeburgh, Duluth, Dartmoor, Leide,
a cobblestone from Praha
that I'd like to think Mozart stubbed his toe on,
that tripped Kafka, who swore as I did,
the third time round. Round and round,
lost amongst the ever changing streets.

by:

+ Iulia Anchidin

+ Daniela Bojica

+ Ileana Botescu-Sireteanu

+ Simona Elisabeta Catana

+ Raul Cojocaru

+ Dana Constantinescu

+ Corina Nicoleta Iscru

+ Raluca-Ioana Manolescu

+ Florentina Yvonne Penciu

LICENTA LUCRARI DE DIPLOMA DOCTORATE TRANSLATION CAFÉ THE JOI JOY GRUP DE DISCUTII Translation in high school CONTACT

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