Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    From $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Errabundos / Wanderers
    Errabundos / Wanderers
    Errabundos / Wanderers
    Ebook149 pages41 minutes

    Errabundos / Wanderers

    By Maria Giovanna Tomsich

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateMay 23, 2012
    ISBN9781466933033
    Errabundos / Wanderers
    Author

    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.

    Related to Errabundos / Wanderers

    Related ebooks

    Poetry For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • UNLIMITED

      Five Poems

      Jan 1, 2020

      How slow is all of this dying? Across the county linea fossil in the making, off-road exhaling last lightin nightmud. A small cat in a steel trap. Pendulous sparrows preen. Holding on for the last bluedark nightwe ate fruited scabs off each other’s m

      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      In Search Of Sanctuary

      Jan 5, 2024

      In Search Of Sanctuary
      16 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Until The Sea Closed Over Us And The Light Was Gone

      Jul 1, 2020

      —Dante, Canto XXVI But if the truth is dreamed of toward the morning—El Paso Although it was really last summer’s song,all this summer Despacito played on as slower then I turned myself to gazeupon Juarez. The summer everything hurts my eyes, a dozen

      6 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Treasure Map

      May 30, 2021

      The Treasure Map
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Gold In Small Places

      Feb 12, 2019

      Gold In Small Places
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      A Step Away In The Right Direction

      Aug 16, 2024

      THE IRONY LOOMS LARGE: asking a person with an impressive track record of depression and an empty tank of self-esteem to write about their happy place. The world is a cut-and-dried case of bleak prospects, polluted skies and profiteering politicians.

      2 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Hello Darkness My Old Friend

      Jun 17, 2020

      Hello Darkness My Old Friend
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Air You Breathe

      Aug 20, 2018

      The Air You Breathe
      23 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Nothing Prepares You For The Impact Of Africa.

      Jun 30, 2021

      Strange sights, new sounds, unfamiliar smells. It is a total assault on the senses, like being a child again and seeing the world afresh. Once you have been there, breathed its dry air, watched distant storms trailing across its immense horizons and

      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Four Poems

      Jan 1, 2021

      I learned the world through the bottoms of my feet, barein the creeks of summer, stepping on pebbles, the squidgeof moss between my toes. On hot asphalt, the hop and skipover cracks, feet already toughened by bramble, dirt, the pricklyground of pine

      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Aquarium

      Jun 4, 2020

      The Aquarium
      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      MARRAKECH EXPRESS Part II

      Apr 25, 2023

      MARRAKECH EXPRESS Part II
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Four Poems

      Sep 4, 2018

      In London. England. Who knows why?Perhaps this rumpled guyFrom central casting or a page of Dickens.He’s taking ordinary usTo haunts of the illustrious,Where even dull pulse quickens. A red felt hat’s dark fingered brim,Food-spotted vest are—him.A mo

      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The World Beneath Our Feet

      Sep 1, 2020

      The World Beneath Our Feet
      8 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      OFF THE Mangrove Coast

      Feb 22, 2019

      OFF THE Mangrove Coast
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Forgive Us Our Trespasses

      Jun 3, 2021

      Forgive Us Our Trespasses
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Protect what You Love

      Dec 9, 2019

      Protect what You Love
      9 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Sniffing The Wind

      Jul 18, 2024

      Sniffing The Wind
      8 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Antelope Dreams

      Feb 2, 2024

      Antelope Dreams
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Five Poems

      May 1, 2019

      “My arm is so brown and so beautiful,” is a thought I haveas I’m about to turn off the lamp and go to sleep.I look at it a moment in the soft glow, and see it, briefly,as though it belonged to someone else. A reddishkind of brown, like a toasted almo

      7 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Our Fabulous Odyssey

      Jun 19, 2019

      Our Fabulous Odyssey
      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Marrakech Express

      Mar 21, 2023

      Marrakech Express
      6 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Autumnal Adrenaline

      Sep 17, 2020

      Autumnal Adrenaline
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Triangle of Light

      Aug 25, 2022

      Triangle of Light
      10 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Inauguration

      Mar 17, 2023

      The Inauguration
      11 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      My Cambodian Adventure

      May 16, 2023

      My Cambodian Adventure
      6 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Take A Moment

      Mar 22, 2020

      Take A Moment
      31 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Errabundos / Wanderers

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Errabundos / Wanderers - Maria Giovanna Tomsich

      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

      foo.jpg

      www.trafford.com

      North America & international

      toll-free: 1 888 232 4444 (USA & Canada)

      phone: 250 383 6864 ♦ fax: 812 355 4082

      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

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1