Able Muse - a woman and her cat https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/1627/1627? en A Woman and Her Cat https://www.ablemuse.com/v18/poetry-translation/paul-verlaine/a-woman-and-her-cat? <p>She was playing with her little cat<br /> &mdash;a female, black. From where I sat</p> <p>in the shadows, it was entrancing,<br /> watching the dancing</p> <p>bat-bat back and forth<br /> of their white hand-paws, by the hearth.</p> <p>One of them had hidden away<br /> &mdash;wicked thing!&mdash;inside her kitty-</p> <p>mittens, the murderous<br /> curved agates of her claws,</p> <p>sleek and slicing as razors.<br /> The other, too, was like so much sugar,</p> <p>and only seemed to have withdrawn<br /> her own stinging talons.</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v18/poetry-translation/paul-verlaine/a-woman-and-her-cat?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v18/poetry-translation/paul-verlaine/a-woman-and-her-cat?#comments Poetry Translation a woman and her cat diane furtney femme et chatte french paul verlaine poem poetry translation v18 Wed, 10 Dec 2014 07:50:47 +0000 Alex Pepple 1256 at https://www.ablemuse.com Paul Verlaine https://www.ablemuse.com/v18/bio/paul-verlaine? <p><span class="name-stress">Paul Verlaine</span> (1844 – 1896), precursor of the Symbolists, composed ten volumes of lushly musical poetry replete with eroticism and subtle moods. His life was a tempestuous sequence of prosperity, poverty, Parisian café society, a violent affair with the young Rimbaud, two imprisonments for assault—including one on his mother—as well as failed business ventures and intervals of teaching in England. </p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v18/bio/paul-verlaine?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v18/bio/paul-verlaine?#comments Bios a woman and her cat author bio diane furtney femme et chatte french paul verlaine poem poems poetry poetry translation translation v18 Sun, 07 Dec 2014 21:29:26 +0000 Alex Pepple 1213 at https://www.ablemuse.com Diane Furtney https://www.ablemuse.com/v18/bio/diane-furtney? <p>After her Tulsa upbringing and with a psychology degree from Vassar College, <span class="name-stress">Diane Furtney</span> worked a year in Israel (1967), then took an assortment of jobs, sometimes in clinical psychology, in several U.S. cities. Besides nonfiction ghostwriting, she has authored two prize-winning poetry chapbooks <em>(</em><em>Destination Rooms</em> and <em>It Was a Game</em><em>)</em> and two comic mystery novels (pseudonym D.J.H. Jones). Her poems and translations (French, Japanese) are in numerous journals in the U.S.<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v18/bio/diane-furtney?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v18/bio/diane-furtney?#comments Bios a woman and her cat author bio diane furtney femme et chatte french paul verlaine poem poetry poetry translation translation v18 Sun, 07 Dec 2014 21:18:06 +0000 Alex Pepple 1212 at https://www.ablemuse.com