Errabundos / Wanderers

By Maria Giovanna Tomsich

Errabundos, Wanderers is divided in four parts: Part 1 Sitios onricos, Oneiric Sites (Dream Images); part 2, Sitios visitados, Visited Sites, places she visited and worked at, like Somalia; part 3, Laos; Part 4, Adnde me llevas? Where Are You Taking Me? In the four parts, with varying degrees, she develops the themes of nature degradation, environment, hope, beauty, science. For instance, in the poem Medusas, the proliferation of jellyfish due to ocean warming.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: May 23, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466933033

Maria Giovanna Tomsich

Maria Giovanna Tomsich was born in Fiume, Italy (until 1945, now Croatia). She immigrated to Canada in 1951. She worked as a lab assistant at the Western branch of the Connaught Laboratories for seven years while taking courses at the same time. After her BA, she changed direction by embarking on an MA in Spanish literature. Thanks to a teaching assistant scholarship, she pursued her PhD at Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island). Thanks to yet another scholarship granted by the Canada Council, she was able to conduct research for her doctoral thesis in Spain. All her publications deal with eighteenth-century topics. As in her previous poetry book, Poemario de Spanish bank, she composes her poems in Spanish language, which she uses most frequently, then she translates them in English. Readers interested in poetry may find it intriguing to see how she meets the challenge of poetic expressions in two so different languages.

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Copyright 2012 Maria Giovanna Tomsich.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

ISBN: 978-1-4669-3302-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4669-3304-0 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4669-3303-3 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012908699

Trafford rev. 05/17/2012

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Contents

SITIOS ONIRICOS

ONEIRIC SITES

Errabundos

Wanderers

¿Adónde vamos?

Where are we going?

Láminas de plata

Silver Sheets

Máquina de control

Control Machinery

Hélices

Helixes

Senda ocre

Ocher Path

Salto en el vacío

Jump in the Void

¡No pidas ya!

Do not ask anymore!

No sé quién eras

I Do Not Know Who You Were

Paradero desconocido

Unknown Site

Relámpago

Lightning

Cuerpo ajeno

Alien Body

Deriva

Anchored

Celda

Cell

Fervor

Fervor

Medusas

Jellyfish

Vaciero

Shepherd

Espejos

Mirrors

SITIOS VISITADOS

VISITED SITES

Palabra exacta

Precise Word

Círculo vicioso

Vicious Circle

Chanchan

Chanchan

Las puertas de Tiahuanaco

Tiahuanaco Gates

II

II

Raiz

Roots

Deseos

Wishes

Colegio de San Gregorio

Saint Gregory Seminary: Valladolid

Oxido

Oxid

Desdén

Contempt

Torres de Altamira

Altamira Towers

Pompeya

Pompeii

Alta aldea

Mountain Hamlet

Gozo

Joy

Aguilucho

Eagle Chick

Rumbo a Koriolej

On the Way to Koriolej

Angeles

Angels

LAOS

LAOS

Luang Prabang

Luang Prabang

A la vera del gong

By the Gong

Escalera

Stairway

Mekong

Mekong

La cueva de Pak ou

The Pak ou Cave

Cueva de Tham Phum

Tham Phum Cave

Ban Chan

Ban Chan

Xien Laan, millones de elefantes

Xien Laan, Millions of Elephants

Pájaros

Birds

Recomponer

Recompose

Pensando en Huang He

Thinking about Huang He

¿ADONDE ME LLEVAS?

WHERE ARE YOU TAKING ME?

¿Adónde me llevas?

Where Are You Taking Me?

Angkor Wat

Angkor Wat

Jayavarman VII. Bayón

Jayavarman VII. Bayón

Peonias

Peonies

Corderos

Lambs

Amaranto

Amaranth

Noche nublada

Cloudy Night

Momento remoto

Remote Moment

Pabellón de Jim Pattison

Jim Pattison Pavilion

Maquinaria perniciosa

Harmful Machinery.

Enlace con Por tierras de España

de Antonio Machado

Link with Through Lands of Spain

by Antonio Machado

Birmania, Burma, Myanmar.

Burma, Myanmar

Crepúsculo

Twilight

Llanura de Bagán, Burma

Plain of Bagan, Burma

Mandaley

Mandalay

Flor de loto

Lotus Flower

Tradición

Tradition

Escape

Escape

Comentario

Comment

SITIOS ONIRICOS

ONEIRIC SITES

Errabundos

Errabundos somos,

del llano a la sierra

trepamos. De pago en pago

erramos, imanados

por luz opalescente

hacia inciertas metas.

Wanderers

Wanderers we are,

from plane to mountain

we climb. From site to site

we wander, mesmerized

by opalescent light

toward uncertain goals.

¿Adónde vamos?

Con tanto bagaje. ¿Adónde vamos?

Reluciente y etérea la última

telaraña de la tallada selva

vamos a rasgar en la disminuida

luz del sol poniente.

Todo lo hemos hecho frágil,

precario. ¿Adónde vamos?

turulatos de la tecnología.

hacia un baden emponzoñado vamos.

Where are we going?

With so much baggage. Where are we going?

Shiny and ethereal the last

cobweb in the gutted jungle

we are going to tear

by the diminished

light of the setting sun.

We have rendered everything fragile,

precarious. Where are we going

heads stuffed with technologies?

toward a poisoned channel we are going.

Láminas de plata

No era Tasco. Aunque similar

el sitio era vastísimo sin la catedral,

descanso de ánimos abatidos

por una labor ímproba

que debía ser sí, abnegada,

mas en el estro creador,

libre. Nada de eso. Pesadas chapas

de plata teníamos que sumergir