Jag minns också Prairie Lights-bokhandeln i Iowa City, ett slags systerbokhandel till City Lights i San Francisco. Kanske det var just där som jag köpte Roethkes bok.
Här den inledande dikten i sviten The Far Field, som utkom postumt 1964:
I dream of journeys repeatedly:
Of flying like a bat deep into a narrowing tunnel,
Of driving alone, without luggage, out a long peninsula,
The road lined with snow-laden second growth,
A fine dry snow ticking the windshield,
Alternate snow and sleet, no on-coming traffic,
And no lights behind, in the blurred side-mirror,
The road changing from glazed tarface to a rubble of stone,
Ending at last in a hopeless sandrut,
Where the car stalls,
Churning in a snowdrift
Until the headlights darken.
Theodore Roethke
En ensam joggare möter en bil vid fälten i Saari |
Iowa City 1983, Mary Nazareth, poeten Gary Snyder, jag, Vincent Okunor |
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