{"id":404,"date":"2011-09-17T12:36:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T16:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenotic.net\/?p=404"},"modified":"2022-03-14T15:14:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T19:14:16","slug":"ana-blandiana-hotarul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/17\/ana-blandiana-hotarul\/","title":{"rendered":"Ana Blandiana – Hotarul"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ran across a poem today by Ana Blandiana<\/a>, entitled\u00a0Hotarul<\/a>. \u00a0It’s written in Romanian, but a Google translation to English, while rough, gave me enough context to attempt a better translation. \u00a0I think it’s really beautiful. \u00a0I’ll post my translation first, followed by the original in Romanian. \u00a0“Hotarul” translates to “Boundary.”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Boundary<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am searching for the beginnings of evil
\nAs in childhood I sought out the rain’s edge.
\nRunning with abandon to find the
\nPlace where
\nI might lay on the ground and ponder the
\nRainfall on one side and not the other
\nThe drops slowly subsiding as
\nI discerned the boundary
\nAnd increasing again before
\nI saw clearly.
\nI grew up for nothing.
\nWith all that I am
\nI run to discover the place where
\nI might lay on the ground and ponder the
\nBrink of good and evil.
\nYet evil always ceases before
\nI discern the boundary
\nAnd builds again, before
\nI can place the good.
\nI am searching for the beginnings of evil
\nIn this land
\nOvercast and sunlit,
\nStep by step.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Ana Blandiana<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the original.<\/p>\n

Hotarul<\/strong><\/p>\n

Caut \u00eenceputului raului
\nCum cautam \u00een copilarie marginile ploii.
\nAlergam din toate puterile sa gasesc
\nLocul \u00een care
\nSa ma asez pe pam\u00e2nt sa contemplu
\nDe-o parte ploaia, de-o parte neploaia.
\nDar \u00eentotdeauna ploaia-nceta \u00eenainte
\nDe a-i descoperi hotarele
\nSi re\u00eencepea \u00eenainte
\nDe-a sti p\u00e2na unde-i seninul.
\nDegeaba am crescut.
\nDin toate puterile
\nAlerg si acum sa gasesc locul unde
\nSa ma asez pe pam\u00e2nt sa contemplu
\nLinia care desparte raul de bine.
\nDar \u00eentotdeanuna raul \u00eenceteaza-nainte
\nDe a-i descoperi hotarul
\nSi re\u00eencepe-nainte
\nDe-a sti p\u00e2na unde e binele.
\nEu caut \u00eenceputul raului
\nPe acest pam\u00e2nt
\n\u00cennorat si-nsorit
\nR\u00e2nd pe r\u00e2nd.<\/p>\n

– Ana Blandiana<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

Pleasant way to spend a Saturday morning. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 \u00a0Lowercase Noises’<\/a>\u00a0“Ambient Songs”<\/a> is a great album to translate to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I ran across a poem today by Ana Blandiana, entitled\u00a0Hotarul. \u00a0It’s written in Romanian, but a Google translation to English, while rough, gave me enough context to attempt a better translation. \u00a0I think it’s really beautiful. \u00a0I’ll post my translation first, followed by the original in Romanian. \u00a0“Hotarul” translates to “Boundary.”   Boundary I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[199,195,196,200,139,198,197],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-ambient-songs","tag-ana-blandiana","tag-hotarul","tag-lowercase-noises","tag-poem","tag-romainian","tag-translation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}