collettivo culturale tuttomondo detto tra noi
Non credere
che non lo sappia
che quando mi parli
la mano della tua mente
senza farsene accorgere
mi sfila le calze,
e si muove cieca e intraprendente
lungo la mia coscia.
Non credere
che non lo sappia
che lo sai
che tutto ciò che dico
è un indumento.
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Don’t think
that I don’t know
that as you talk to me
the hand of your mind
is inconspicuously
taking off my stocking,
moving in resourceful blindness
up along my thigh.
Don’t think
that I don’t know
that you know
everything I say
is a garment.
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Anne Stevenson, Detto fra noi, Sous-entendu
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Anne Stevenson (January 3, 1933 – September 14, 2020) was an American-British poet and writer and recipient of a Lannan Literary Award.
Stevenson was the author of over a dozen volumes of poetry and books of essays and literary criticism, including two critical studies of the poet Elizabeth Bishop. Her 1989 biography of the American poet Sylvia Plath, Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath, sparked controversy; the ordeal that Stevenson endured in writing the book and in its reception were the focus of a 1993 series of articles in The New Yorker, by Janet Malcolm, which became the book The Silent Woman.
Stevenson used a hearing aid; several of her poems (including “Hearing with my Fingers” and “On Going Deaf”) refer to her experience of deafness. (Wikipedia)
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