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TRANSLATING ICE: THE GLOSSARIES OF ICE AND SNOW Or

TRANSLATING ICE: THE GLOSSARIES OF ICE AND SNOW Or “A Lexicographical Winter Wonderland” ( Pullum ) Amy Cutler University of Leeds, United Kingdom. Only now a wordy ghost Of once my firmer self I go Floating across the frozen tundra Of the lexicon and the dictionary.

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TRANSLATING ICE: THE GLOSSARIES OF ICE AND SNOW Or

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  1. TRANSLATING ICE: THE GLOSSARIES OF ICE AND SNOW Or “A Lexicographical Winter Wonderland” (Pullum) Amy Cutler University of Leeds, United Kingdom

  2. Only now a wordy ghost Of once my firmer self I go Floating across the frozen tundra Of the lexicon and the dictionary. W. S. Graham, Implements in Their Places (1977)

  3. ERODED by • the beamwind of your speech • the gaudy chatter of the pseudo- • experienced—the hundred- • tongued perjury- • poem, the noem. • Hollow- • whirled, • free • the path through the men- • shaped snow, • the penitent’s snow, to • the hospitable • glacier-parlors and –tables. • Deep • in the timecrevasse, • in the • honeycomb-ice, • waits a breathcrystal, • your unalterable • testimony. • Deep • in the fissure between times, • at • the ice-comb • waits, a breath-crystal, • your un-assailable • testimony.

  4. With a changing key, • you unlock the house where • the snow of what’s silenced drifts. • Just like the blood that bursts from • Your eye or mouth or ear, • so your key changes. • Changing your key changes the word • That may drift with flakes. • Just like the wind that rebuffs you, • Clenched round your word is the snow. • With a changing key, • you unlock the house in which • drifts the snow of the unspoken. • Your key changes • depending on the blood that gushes • from your eye or mouth or ear. • Your key changes, the word changes, • that may drift with flakes. • What snowball forms around the word • depends on the wind that rebuffs you. • With a changing key • you unlock the house where • the snow of what’s silenced is driven. • Just like the blood that flows from • your eye or mouth or ear, • so your key changes. • Your key changes, the word changes, • that may drive with the flakes. • Just like the wind that rebuffs you, • the snow is packed round your word.

  5. In its first dumb form • language was gesture • technique of travelling over sea ice • silent • before great landscapes and glittering processions • vastness of a great white loony north • of our forebeing. • Susan Howe, Secret History • of the Dividing Line (1978)

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