The Woman Within Her House Won Second Prize
星期一 三月 09, 2009 9:37 am
今天很开心得到MATTICA.CA的通知。
这首英文诗歌获了他们第十二届Mattia国际诗歌奖。
Hi Anna- CONGRATULATIONS - this is to advise you that you have won Second prize in the Mattia 12th International Poetry Competition.
Your poem - "The Woman Within Her House"
Please e-mail me your address. Allow 4-6 weeks for payment. I will be
Putting up the winners pages soon. Life is very busy for me. Thank you for your patience.
参赛规则如下
http://www.mattia.ca/competition12/rules12/rules12.html
Winning poems will be posted now.
http://www.mattia.ca/competition13/winners12/winners-12th.html
The Woman Within Her House
There is a haunting about this piece. “Around the doorway, you wander,” There is too a communication. . . “breathe in two languages”. . . a universal, generational ‘race’ if you will. There is no doubt an acceptable thing we have to fold in front of “Remembrance is a house”. Anna kind of nailed down a portrait of the ones we think about before they are gone. Aside from the subtle-obvious message this bit of writing does, in a life committed to our elders, we are here to at best give homage to those that came before us. . . and yet. . . question them. The great part of this quiet surprise (and I call it a “quiet surprise” because if you spend as much time with this bit of writing as I did. . . you’ll get the message) is that she hit the heart of a baby boomer age whose children are now old enough to worry. Anna, you done good. It’s not too often that three opening lines command a great read to follow. . . and go figure. . . you were smart enough to keep this reader in line with that word “languages”. Wonderful!