OGDEN NASH [8.354] Poeta de Estados Unidos

Ogden Nash

Frederic Ogden Nash.  Estados Unidos, 1902-1971 

Bibliografía:

Candy is Dandy by Ogden Nash, Anthony Burgess, Linell Smith, and Isabel Eberstadt. Carlton Books Ltd, 1994. ISBN 0-233-98892-0

Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight by Ogden Nash and Lynn Munsinger. Little, Brown Young Readers, 1999. ISBN 0-316-59905-0

I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Ogden Nash. Buccaneer Books, 1994. ISBN 1-56849-468-8

The Old Dog Barks Backwards by Ogden Nash. Little Brown & Co, 1972. ISBN 0-316-59804-6

Ogden Nash's Zoo by Ogden Nash and Etienne Delessert. Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, 1986. ISBN 0-941434-95-8

Pocket Book of Ogden Nash by Ogden Nash. Pocket, 1990. ISBN 0-671-72789-3

Selected Poetry of Ogden Nash by Ogden Nash. Black Dog & Levanthal Publishing, 1995. ISBN 1-884822-30-8

The Tale of Custard the Dragon by Ogden Nash and Lynn Munsinger. Little, Brown Young Readers, 1998. ISBN 0-316-59031-2

Bed Riddance by Ogden Nash. Little Brown & Co, 1969. ASIN B000EGGXD8

"Versus" by Ogden Nash. Little, Brown, & Co, 1949.

Good Intentions by Ogden Nash. Little Brown & Co, 1942. ISBN 978-1-125-65764-5

"The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash" by Ogden Nash. Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1941.

There's Always Another Windmill by Ogden Nash. Little Brown & Co, 1968. ISBN 0-316-59839-9

Private Dining Room by Ogden Nash. Little Brown & Co, 1952. ASIN B000H1Z8U4

Many Long Years Ago by Ogden Nash. Little Brown & Co, 1945. ISBN B000OELG1O

You Can't Get There From Here by Ogden Nash. Little Brown & Co, 1953.

I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Ogden Nash. Little Brown & Co, 1938

Poesía:

"What I Know About Life" The New Yorker 24/47 (15 January 1949) : 35

"Carnival of Animals" The New Yorker 25/48 (7 January 1950) : 26

Todo el mundo me cuenta todo

Me cuesta mucho entusiasmarme

con las noticias actuales.

Cuando uno piensa que por lo menos las perspectivas ya son tan negras que

no pueden ser más negras, empeoran.

Y por eso no me gustan las noticias, porque jamás ha habido una época en la que tantas cosas

estuvieran yendo tan bien para tantas de las personas equivocadas.

Everybody Tells Me Everything 

I find it very difficult to enthuse 

Over the current news. 

Just when you think that at least the outlook is so black that it can grow no blacker, it worsens, 

And that is why I do not like the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons. 

Un trago con algo 

Hay algo con el Martini, 

un escalofrío extraordinariamente agradable; 

un Martini amarillo, suave; 

quisiera tomar uno en este momento. 

Hay algo con el Martini, 

antes de que empiecen la cena y el baile, 

y a decir verdad, 

no es el vermouth — 

creería que es el gin. 

A Drink With Something In It

There is something about a Martini,

A tingle remarkably pleasant;

A yellow, a mellow Martini;

I wish I had one at present.

There is something about a Martini,

Ere the dining and dancing begin,

And to tell you the truth,

It is not the vermouth--

I think that perhaps it´s the gin. 

Un consejo para maridos 

Para que tu matrimonio continúe 

rebosando amor de la copa, 

admítelo, si estás equivocado; 

cuando tienes razón, cierra la boca. 

A Word to Husbands

To keep your marriage brimming

With love in the loving cup,

Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;

Whenever you’re right, shut up. 

Cruzando la frontera 

Empieza la vejez 

y la edad mediana se ha cumplido 

el día en que tus descendientes 

ya son más que tus amigos. 

Crossing The Border

Senescence begins

And middle age ends

The day your descendents

Outnumber your friends. 

Versiones © Gerardo Gambolini 

VIEJOS

La gente espera que los viejos se mueran,
nadie en realidad lleva luto por los viejos.
Los viejos son diferentes. La gente los mira
con ojos que se preguntan cuándo...
La gente los observa con impávidos ojos,
pero los viejos saben cuando un viejo se muere.


OLD MEN

People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men.
Old men are different. People look
At them with eyes that wonder when…
People watch with unshocked eyes;
But old men know when an old man dies.