De Tres escalones en la escalera de la escritura, de Helene Cixous/From Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing by HC

This is what writing is: I
one language, I another language, and between the two, the line that makes them vibrate; writing forms a passageway between two shores/ Esto es lo que es la escritura: I
una lengua, I otra lengua, y entre las dos, la línea que las hace vibrar; escribir forma un pasaje entre dos orillas.

Ghost Opera by/de Mercedes Roffé

Mi versión de un poema de MR, de su libro La ópera fantasma que acabo de terminar de traducir. My translation of a poem by MR from her book Ghost Opera, which I just finished translating.

GHOST OPERA
(Tan Dun)


water
tremolo
kettledrum roll and
water
tremolo
drop
GONG
in the bosom / hollow of
water
tremolo
GONG
vibration expanding
into the mirror / hollow / kettledrum of
water
tremolo
GONG


Then Shakespeare
and Bach come
and talk
sitting face to face
before the hollow / kettledrum / of water
and light
like two solemn
Buddhas
they talk
and Shakespeare says: “We are such a stuff / as dreams are made on.”
“Fugue / Death fugue,” says Bach.