Tag: IWD2011
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Two Poems by Ingeborg Bachmann for International Women’s Day 2011.
In the Storm of Roses, by Ingeborg Bachmann. “Wherever we turn in the storm of roses, the night is lit up by thorns, and the thunder of leaves, once so quiet within the bushes, rumbling at our heels.” The Broken Heart by Ingeborg Bachmann “News o’ grief had overteaken Dark-eyed Fanny, now vorseaken; There she zot, […]
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2010 International Women’s Day: A poem by EBB.
Pain in Pleasure A thought lay like a flower upon mine heart, And drew around it other thoughts like bees For multitude and thirst of sweetnesses; Whereat rejoicing, I desired the art Of the Greek whistler, who to wharf and mart Could lure those insect swarms from orange-trees That I might hive with me such […]