Rodrigo Leão - Luiza Neto Jorge / A Magnólia

Luiza Neto Jorge was a Portuguese poet (1939-1989). In her poem "Magnolia" Rodrigo Leão and Gabriel Gomes took inspiration for the opening song of their album «Os Poetas: Entre Nós e as Palavras» (1997).

English translation by Richard Zenith, an American writer and translator:

Exaltation of the minimal
and the magnificent lightning
of the master event
restore to me my form
my splendor.

A tiny crib cradles me
where the word elides
into matter - into metaphor -
as needed, lightly, wherever
it echoes and slides.

Magnolia,
the sound that swells in it
when pronounced,
is an exalted fragrance
lost in the storm,

a magnificent minimal entity
shedding on me
its leaves of lightning.

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[velocista9940]

este cd foi algo do que de muito bom aconteceu nos ultimos anos no panorama cultural portugues. toca na alma de qualquer um de nos!

[rodLX]

e s p e c t á c u l o

[piazzola08]

Obrigado