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Storyboard item #C30 Video clip of >>>> "The Layers" poem, written by Stanley Kunitz. Stanley Barkan reading poem in English. (re Poetry event for Cross-Cultural Communications on 9/11/2005 at The Russian Samovar Restaurant, 254 West 52nd Street, NY, NY 10019 (212.757.0618)
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Video of Stanley Barkan reading poem in English.
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English text of "The Layers" as received from Stanley Barkan via email on 12/19/2005.

I have walked through many lives,
some of them my own,
and I am not who I was,
though some principle of being
abides, from which I struggle
not to stray.
When I look behind,
as I am compelled to look
before I can gather strength
to proceed on my journey,
I see the milestones dwindling
toward the horizon
and the slow fires trailing
from the abandoned camp-sites,
over which scavenger angels
wheel on heavy wings.
Oh, I have made myself a tribe
out of my true affections,
and my tribe is scattered!
How shall the heart be reconciled
to its feast of losses?
In a rising wind
the manic dust of my friends,
those who fell along the way,
bitterly stings my face.
Yet I turn, I turn,
exulting somewhat,
with my will intact to go
wherever I need to go,
and every stone on the road
precious to me.
In my darkest night,
when the moon was covered
and I roamed through wreckage,
a nimbus-clouded voice
directed me:
"Live in the layers,
not on the litter."
Though I lack the art
to decipher it,
no doubt the next chapter
in my book of transformations
is already written.
I am not done with my changes .

PLEASE NOTE (by Stanley Barkan in 12/19/2005 email to Frank Sisco): Many translators have had problems understanding the meaning of the cryptic quote.
The "litter" is conceived of as a kind of fragments of the geologic "layers." I hope this helps the translators. Bevery Matherne, the French translator, in a conversation with Kunitz arrived at this explication.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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