{"id":251,"date":"2015-07-09T23:46:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T20:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/?page_id=251"},"modified":"2020-09-24T21:01:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T18:01:12","slug":"work-from-the-2014-paros-translation-symposium-petros-georgiou","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/?page_id=251","title":{"rendered":"Work from Paros Poetry and Translation Symposium 2014: Petros Georgiou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>EYES ON INSTRUMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My consciousness is being vented by your pores,<br \/>\nto be contained by the aspic mould of your carnality,<br \/>\nme being all over you in love, in sheer indulgence.<\/p>\n<p>The way it doesn\u2019t serve me, but is me<br \/>\nis the way your tongue infects my heartbeat,<br \/>\nthe way your ear blooms as a crystal clear persuasion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BODY DOUBLE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your \u201clife without limits?\u201d<br \/>\ninsinuated itself into the metaphor of my impressions,<br \/>\nfrisking about in their ambivalence-<br \/>\na metaphor doubled.<\/p>\n<p>But life\u2019s tenacity emits literal promises,<br \/>\nexact directions<br \/>\nthat have to be harvested<br \/>\nas if by a swordplay between musing and insouciance.<\/p>\n<p>The answer that matters is lurking<br \/>\nbeneath all aspirations,<br \/>\nhoping to feed once more<br \/>\non an unabridged perhaps edition of my misdoings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u03a0\u03ad\u03c4\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 \u0393\u03b5\u03c9\u03c1\u03b3\u03af\u03bf\u03c5<\/p>\n<p>*********************************************************************************************************************<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: The English-to-English translations below are works-in-progress<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eyes on Instruments<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My consciousness is expelled by your body<br \/>\nyour pores contain what is corporeally mine<br \/>\nin excrescence of my love for you, saturating, spraying.<\/p>\n<p>This is how I manifest<br \/>\nin the way you have tongued my pulse<br \/>\n[as] in the way your throat blooms as a crystal clear percussion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Body Double<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Define for me this \u201clife without limits\u201d<br \/>\ninsinuated as it is into my impressions,<br \/>\nincomplete as they are<br \/>\nambivalently doubled.<\/p>\n<p>But life is promise and literal promise<br \/>\nprecise vectors<br \/>\nto be gathered in<br \/>\nas between thought and indifference.<\/p>\n<p>Aspiration is the harvest of these<br \/>\nsubterranean ideas<br \/>\nfiltering, in motion, the unabridged<br \/>\nedition of my misdoings and misdoings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Translation \/ \u039c\u03b5\u03c4\u03ac\u03c6\u03c1\u03b1\u03c3\u03b7:<br \/>\nStephen Mooney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; EYES ON INSTRUMENTS My consciousness is being vented by your pores, to be contained by the aspic mould of your carnality, me being all over you in love, in sheer indulgence. The way it doesn\u2019t serve me, but is me is the way your tongue infects my heartbeat, the way your ear blooms as [&hellip;] <a href=\"https:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/?page_id=251\" rel=\"bookmark\"><!--more--><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":124,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/251\/revisions\/354"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parospoetrysymposium.chs.harvard.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}