Graban los poemas que dejó escritos Leonard Bernstein, el primero con Jeremy Irons
Coincidiendo con el 100 aniversario (el próximo 25 de agosto) del nacimiento del compositor, pianista y director de orquesta Leonard Bernstein, Classical.org ha comenzado a grabar y publicar los poemas que este dejó escritos. El primero de ellos, Life is Juicy, cuenta con la voz del actor Jeremy Irons.
Aquí sus versos:
Life is Juicy
(Written in a cottage
on the mucky shore of
Lake Mah-kee-nak
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
2 July 1947)
Life begins in the waters—
Not the deep, but the borders of land:
The stagnants that nourish the sterile earth
Like a juicy gland.
Life is the seed of the marriage
Of liquid and solid events.
In the coves, in the swamps, in mysterious pools,
Our heartaches commence.
Life is the pulp and the slime,
The marshmallow bellies of frogs,
Their thyroided eyes, their eggjellies caught
On the rotting logs.
Life is the algae, the roe;
The army of maggoty breeds
Devouring the corpse of a very old perch
Adrift in the weeds.
Life is the plasm, the cells,
The fat symbiotics in pairs;
The ankledeep fungoids which darkly provide
The crawfish with lairs.
Life is the scaly and scummy,
The poisonous green without breath;
The marinal maze whose only solution
Is ultimate death.
For Death is the crisp and the clean,
The fine oxidation, the rust,
The spermless, the painless, the classic, the lean,
The dry, dry dust.
