https://www.vianegativa.us/2015/06/four-haiku-and-a-severed-head-by-simone-routier/ Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003. Mon, 30 May 2016 23:14:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.vianegativa.us/2015/06/four-haiku-and-a-severed-head-by-simone-routier/#comment-51185 Tue, 07 Jul 2015 19:32:35 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=32337#comment-51185 These are terrific, Beth, both in the original and in your elegant translations. What a find!

]]> https://www.vianegativa.us/2015/06/four-haiku-and-a-severed-head-by-simone-routier/#comment-51150 Tue, 30 Jun 2015 19:53:28 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=32337#comment-51150 Hi Beth, so Margob1 is you? :-) I think she wrote the haiku in Quebec, as they’re in her first collection, published before she moved to France in 1930. Is Simone Routier much known there now? I found her just by chance and my Internet searches for more information – endearingly but frustratingly – turned up more references to planning issues and window-cleaning in the rue Simone-Routier in Quebec City than to the writer and her work.

]]> https://www.vianegativa.us/2015/06/four-haiku-and-a-severed-head-by-simone-routier/#comment-51149 Tue, 30 Jun 2015 19:19:22 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=32337#comment-51149 Wonderful, Jean! I especially like what you did with “Meubles bas, jour au déclin” and “l’immense effeuillement.” The latter is such a melancholy time in Quebec, since we all know what’s coming, and whether Simone wrote those lines in Quebec or France, I’m sure she always felt that when she saw the leaves falling. You’ve made me curious about her life.

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