katrinarc
10-20-2011, 09:13 PM
Hello, I'm from Argentina, I'm studying to become a translator. Now, I'm supposed to translate a poem by Alice Walker, before I leave the stage:
Before I leave the stage
I will sing the only song
I was meant truly to sing.
It is the song
of I AM.
Yes: I am Me
&
You.
WE ARE.
I love Us with every drop
of our blood
every atom of our cells
our waving particles
-undaunted flags of our Being-
neither here nor there.
I have trouble with identifying the book to which this poem belongs to, since in the Internet there isn't any information about it.
Another question: What does the '&' mean in Alice Walker's poems? I see it's recurrently used in her poems.
Thanks a lot!
Before I leave the stage
I will sing the only song
I was meant truly to sing.
It is the song
of I AM.
Yes: I am Me
&
You.
WE ARE.
I love Us with every drop
of our blood
every atom of our cells
our waving particles
-undaunted flags of our Being-
neither here nor there.
I have trouble with identifying the book to which this poem belongs to, since in the Internet there isn't any information about it.
Another question: What does the '&' mean in Alice Walker's poems? I see it's recurrently used in her poems.
Thanks a lot!