published poetry, light

[ursula]

I received my very own copy of Marilou Keeps a Camel today. I have this work of literature because the epigraph is my own translation.

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[losselen.livejournal.com]

Awesomilliant.

[ursula]

C'est hyper-chouette, n'est-ce pas? ;)

[losselen.livejournal.com]

It's scary because I actually undertood that. (Whoa, my one year in French paid off.)

[ursula]

I had somewhere between four and five years. I keep claiming that someday I'll go to France and learn how to talk to people, but it hasn't happened yet . . .

[reasie.livejournal.com]

... insert snarky comment about learning to talk to people in English...

Sorry, couldn't help it. Congratulations! You may now call yourself "Published" which, though it doesn't reduce the cost of a decaf latte one cent, is a precious little medal you can carry around in your heart that the world approves of you.

or in other words... wow. You're smart!

[ursula]

Yeah, it's really the same problem. I'm just way too happy in my own little world ;)

It's not publishing till I can stick it on a CV, though :)

[ornerie.livejournal.com]

vachement! :)

[ex-greythist387.livejournal.com]

Cool.

[glowing-fish.livejournal.com]

That is so awesome

I translated the poem "under cerulean skies" into Classical Chinese.

[ursula]

Did you do that thing where you get the right number of characters for a perfectly rectangular poem?

[glowing-fish.livejournal.com]

Of course, all the lines were five characters long.

My favorite line was

"Wu shang ar shang wo" (We injured others and were in turn injured)
I liked it because "Wu" is an archaic term for "I", and originally was actually the objective form. For the past two thousand years, there is no distinction between the objective wu and the subjective wo, but I figured I could work it in here, and the entire thing came across rather compactly.

[aryky.livejournal.com]

I want to contribute to the chorus of "cool!"

[ursula]

Whee!

[katerinfg.livejournal.com]

Way cool! Congratulations!

[ursula]

. . . You know what I just read your username as? "Katerin, finitely generated."

[katerinfg.livejournal.com]

Okay . . . . not sure what that would mean . . . .

[ursula]

That I can get you by adding or multiplying a finite number of objects. (Sorry, long math day . . .)

[katerinfg.livejournal.com]

If you say so . . . .

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Yay! I remember that.

I think I would've put another line between the end of the poem and the "translated by" line, but the translation itself is of course flawless.

[ursula]

I suppose if I were laying it out I'd put my name under Apollinaire's . . .

And thank you.