Tag: buigiang

A BARGAIN | Bùi Giáng

Bùi Giáng by Đinh Trường Chinh

forget about the lost causes, I must
return to the bargain at hand before I die

– Love dear! I call you home
Home dear I say! Love you are my home
now all this banter back and forth
you love stay I’ll go

I beg your pardon: – stay why
if you go I’ll go with you
I am your wife

VỀ BUÔN BÁN

Giã từ cõi mộng điêu linh
Tôi về buôn bán với mình phôi pha

– Mình ơi! tôi gọi bằng nhà
Nhà ơi! tôi gọi mình là nhà tôi
Bây giờ xuôi ngược đôi nơi
Thôi mình ở lại tôi dời chân đi

Thưa rằng: – ở cái quái gì
Chàng đi thiếp cũng xin đi với chàng

Bùi Giáng (1926-1998) was born in Thanh Châu, Duy Xuyên, the province of Quảng Nam, Vietnam. He passed away at Chợ Rẫy Hospital in Saigon, Vietnam. Self-taught at a late age in life. The prolific poet and translator were fluent in French, English, and Kanji. With many published translations like Hamlet by Shakespeare, The Little Prince by Saint Exupéry, Campus…

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet, and translator, was born in 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.

Goodbye | Bùi Giáng

Bùi Giáng by Đinh Trường Chinh

A poem in Vietnamese by Bùi Giáng
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

Oh old bare heart
Grasping at the wrong sky
Upon dusk the source of life
Midlife came doodling passed by

Từ giã

Người mộc mạc trái tim cũ kỹ
Vói hai tay bắt lộn vòm trời
Chiều qua mang một cõi đời
Đi về lẽo đẽo giữa đời đi qua.

Bùi Giáng (1926-1998) was born in Thanh Châu, Duy Xuyên, the province of Quảng Nam, Vietnam. He passed away at Chợ Rẫy Hospital in Saigon, Vietnam. Self-taught at a late age in life. The prolific poet and translator were fluent in French, English, and Kanji. With many published translations like Hamlet by Shakespeare, The Little Prince by Saint Exupéry, Campus…

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet, and translator, was born in 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.

The pretty muse | Bùi Giáng

Photography by Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

A poem in Vietnamese by Bùi Giáng
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Photography: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

When poetry’s beauty is the epitome of cloud nine
The Muse is suddenly cold, not so divine
Hell-raising envy
The desperate solicitation crazy
Dear god, hazy
Since the beginning of time, just as mad

Nàng thơ đẹp

Khi thơ đẹp tới chín tầng
Thì Nàng Thơ bỗng sượng sần cả ra
Tha hồ thằng quỷ con ma
Đến gùn ghè gạ gẫm mà hoá điên
Thưa rằng đại thánh tề thiên
Nghìn xưa âu cũng chỉ điên chừng này

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Nguồn: Bùi Giáng, Mưa nguồn và Lá hoa cồn, NXB An Tiêm tái bản, Sài Gòn, 1973

Bùi Giáng (1926-1998) was born in Thanh Châu, Duy Xuyên, the province of Quảng Nam, Vietnam. He passed away at Chợ Rẫy Hospital in Saigon, Vietnam. Self-taught at a late age in life. The prolific poet and translator were fluent in French, English, and Kanji. With many published translations like Hamlet by Shakespeare, The Little Prince by Saint Exupéry, Campus…

Source: thivien.net

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet, and translator, was born in 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.

BÙI GIÁNG

Bùi Giáng by Đinh Trường Chinh

In Vietnamese by Bùi Giáng
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

Bùi Giáng (1926-1998) was born in Thanh Châu, Duy Xuyên, the province of Quảng Nam, Vietnam. He passed away at Chợ Rẫy Hospital in Saigon, Vietnam. Self-taught at a late age in life. The prolific poet and translator were fluent in French, English, and Kanji. With many published translations like Hamlet by Shakespeare, The Little Prince by Saint Exupéry, Campus…

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet, and translator, was born in 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.

Dream | Bùi Giáng

Hoài niệm by Đinh Trường Chinh

A poem in Vietnamese by Bùi Giáng
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Tranh: Đinh Trường Chinh

Mộng


Hoàng hôn cơn mộng tháp tùng
Từng vô duyên gọi bóng nùng diễm qua
Anh về từ cuối nguyệt hoa
Nhìn em như mộng mị xa xa dần
Em đi sương bóng vô ngần
Nhìn anh như ngó một lần người điên
Về sau ký ức trược phiền
Làm sao quên được thuyền quyên một lần.

Dusk is but an accompanying fantasy
Absurdly called the looming shadow a dream
I’m back since the end of the moon cycle
In reverie watched you retreat
Your movements consumed by the mist
Looked at me just once, a madman
After some time in worrisome recall
A woman of great beauty, once.

Bùi Giáng (1926-1998) was born in Thanh Châu, Duy Xuyên, the province of Quảng Nam, Vietnam. He passed away at Chợ Rẫy Hospital in Saigon, Vietnam. Self-taught at a late age in life. The prolific poet and translator were fluent in French, English, and Kanji. With many published translations like Hamlet by Shakespeare, The Little Prince by Saint Exupéry, Campus…

Source: thivien.net

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet, and translator, was born in 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.