[좋은영시10] Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins

 

  Introduction to Poetry

Billy Collins

 

I ask them to take a poem                                                       사람들에게 시 한편을 골라서
and hold it up to the light                                                                      칼라 슬라이드처럼
like a color slide                                                                         환한 불빛에 비추어 보든지

or press an ear against its hive.                                 귀를 가까이 대고 잘 들어 보라고 시켰다.

 

I say drop a mouse into a poem                                      

and watch him probe his way out,           

or walk inside the poem's room                                        
and feel the walls for a light switch.         

 

I want them to waterski                                                           
across the surface of a poem                                               
waving at the author's name on the shore.             

 

But all they want to do                                                        
is tie the poem to a chair with rope                                                   
and torture a confession out of it.                         

 

They begin beating it with a hose                            
to find out what it really means.                             

 

 

 

  한글번역: Helen of Troy  

 

 

 

 

콜린즈 시인은 미국의 시인으로서 친근한 단어과 유머로 시를 써서 대중들이 쉽게 가까이 할 수 있는 시들을 써서

최고의 인기를 모으고 있는 시인이다.

화려한 수상 경력을 보아도 그의 대중성과 인기를 엿볼 수 있다.

 

On June 21, 2001, Billy Collins was appointed as the Library's new Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. In 2002, he was appointed to a second term, continuing through 2003.

He is Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College, City University of New York, where he has taught for the past 30 years. He is also a writer-in-residence at Sarah Lawrence College and served as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library.

 

Billy Collins' books of poetry include:

• Sailing Alone Around the Room (2002)
• Picnic, Lightning (1998)
• The Art of Drowning (1995), which was a Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize finalist
• Questions About Angels (1991), a National Poetry Series selection by Edward Hirsch
• The Apple That Astonished Paris (1988)
• Video Poems (1980)
• Pokerface (1977)

His other awards and honors include:

the Oscar Blumenthal Prize
the Bess Hokin Prize
the Frederick Bock Prize
the Levinson Prize
New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
Guggenheim Foundation fellowship

 

 

 

 

 

Music: MIlonga in re

from helen's cd bin