{"id":72630,"date":"2015-02-14T16:25:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T16:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=72630"},"modified":"2015-02-16T00:31:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T00:31:45","slug":"mundi-other-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/mundi-other-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Mundi & other poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

By T\u00c3\u00b3roddur Poulsen.<\/p>\n

You<\/strong><\/p>\n

you’ll be
\nput
\nin a diaper
\nand
\ntended
\nby rubber gloves<\/p>\n

and stare
\nat a blank
\ntelevision screen
\nall day long
\nbecause it’s so nice\t\t\t<\/p>\n

remembering
\nhow riveting
\nthe snappish
\nshut-up
\nsound
\nof the black
\nelectric meter
\nwas when
\nit was first
\ninstalled
\nout in the hallway<\/p>\n

T\u00c3\u00ba<\/strong><\/p>\n

t\u00c3\u00ba ver\u00c3\u00b0ur
\nlagdur
\n\u00c3\u00ad bl\u00c3\u00a6u
\nog
\nr\u00c3\u00b8kta\u00c3\u00b0ur
\nav gummihandskum<\/p>\n

starir
\nallan dagin
\nat sl\u00c3\u00b8kta
\nsj\u00c3\u00b3nvarpinum
\nt\u00c3\u00ad ta\u00c3\u00b0 er so f\u00c3\u00adnt<\/p>\n

minnist
\nhvussu bergtikin
\nt\u00c3\u00ba vart
\nav n\u00c3\u00bdggja
\nsvarta
\nravmagnsteljaranum
\n\u00c3\u00bati \u00c3\u00ad gongini
\nvi\u00c3\u00b0 s\u00c3\u00adnum
\nsnurruta
\ninnikleimda
\nlj\u00c3\u00b3\u00c3\u00b0i<\/p>\n

Almost <\/strong><\/p>\n

almost
\nwrote
\nthe word
\nthat lies
\nbut can’t
\nstand
\nbecause
\nit died
\nin the
\nwashing
\nmachine <\/p>\n

Mundi<\/strong><\/p>\n

mundi
\nskriva\u00c3\u00b0
\nta\u00c3\u00b0 or\u00c3\u00b0i\u00c3\u00b0
\nsum ikki
\nkann
\nstanda
\nmen
\nliggja
\nt\u00c3\u00ad ta\u00c3\u00b0
\ndoy\u00c3\u00b0i
\n\u00c3\u00ad
\nvaskimaskinuni<\/p>\n

Mouth<\/strong><\/p>\n

a mouth
\nfull
\nof toothless rage<\/p>\n

got stuffed
\nwith crumbled
\nletters\t\t\t\t \t<\/p>\n

it spewed
\nall over the churchyard
\nthe following day<\/p>\n

during a downpour of faith\t\t<\/p>\n

and though the blessed sun came out\t\t<\/p>\n

midges filled you
\nwith fresh doubts\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

then before you know it
\nit’s thundering again\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

and lightning says
\nlife’s as short<\/p>\n

as this<\/p>\n

Munnurin<\/strong><\/p>\n

ein munnur
\nfullur av
\ntannleysari \u00c3\u00b8\u00c3\u00b0i<\/p>\n

fyltist
\nvi\u00c3\u00b0 morla\u00c3\u00b0um
\nb\u00c3\u00b3kstavum<\/p>\n

sum dagin eftir
\nblivu sp\u00c3\u00bdttir \u00c3\u00bat
\nyvir allan kirkjugar\u00c3\u00b0in<\/p>\n

har tr\u00c3\u00bagvin oysti ni\u00c3\u00b0ur<\/p>\n

og so kom tann s\u00c3\u00a6la s\u00c3\u00b3lin<\/p>\n

men m\u00c3\u00bdggjabitarnir
\nfingu teg aftur at ivast<\/p>\n

\u00c3\u00a1\u00c3\u00b0renn t\u00c3\u00ba veitst av
\ngongur toran aftur<\/p>\n

og snarlj\u00c3\u00b3si\u00c3\u00b0 sigur
\nat so stutt sum ta\u00c3\u00b0<\/p>\n

er l\u00c3\u00advi\u00c3\u00b0<\/p>\n

Red-Hot Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

a red-hot day
\nunder slanting walls
\nwhere book dust
\nphlegm and words
\nrally to the beat
\nof a heart
\nthat wants out
\nto go sledding
\nand then pound
\ninside the snowman
\nit built
\nto that end \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Gl\u00c3\u00b3\u00c3\u00b0heitur Dagur<\/strong><\/p>\n

gl\u00c3\u00b3\u00c3\u00b0heitur dagur
\nundir skr\u00c3\u00a1vegginum
\nhar b\u00c3\u00b3kast\u00c3\u00b8vi\u00c3\u00b0
\nsl\u00c3\u00admi\u00c3\u00b0 og or\u00c3\u00b0ini
\nfylkjast \u00c3\u00ad takt
\nvi\u00c3\u00b0 hjarta\u00c3\u00b0
\nsum vil \u00c3\u00bat
\nat skrei\u00c3\u00b0a
\nog s\u00c3\u00ad\u00c3\u00b0ani duka
\ninni \u00c3\u00ad kavamanninum
\nta\u00c3\u00b0 evna\u00c3\u00b0i til ta\u00c3\u00b0 sama<\/p>\n

\"T\u00c3\u00b3roddur_Poulsen_by_Randi_Ward\"<\/a><\/p>\n

ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/strong>
\nT\u00c3\u00b3roddur Poulsen<\/strong> (1957) is a pioneering Faroese writer, graphic artist and musician. He grew up in T\u00c3\u00b3rshavn, the capital city of the Faroe Islands, during a period of intense socioeconomic and cultural transition. Since his debut poetry collection, Botnfall<\/em> (Dregs, 1984), Poulsen has published forty books and become an inimitable force in Nordic literature. Fjalir<\/em> (Planks, 2013) earned him his sixth nomination for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. <\/p>\n

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR<\/strong>
\nRandi Ward<\/a> (1982) is a writer, translator, lyricist and photographer from West Virginia. She earned her MA in Cultural Studies from the University of the Faroe Islands and is a recipient of The American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Nadia Christensen Prize. Ward is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee whose work has appeared in Asymptote, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, World Literature Today, Vencil: Anthology of Contemporary Faroese Literature<\/em> and other publications. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"T\u00c3\u00b3roddur_Poulsen_by_Randi_Ward\"<\/a><\/p>\n

you’ll be
\nput
\nin a diaper
\nand
\ntended
\nby rubber gloves<\/p>\n

and stare
\nat a blank
\ntelevision screen
\nall day long
\nbecause it’s so nice\t<\/p>\n

By T\u00c3\u00b3roddur Poulsen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}