Riccardo Venturi 13-12-2020 23:12

Translator's Note. James Thurber's poem The Last Flower was written in 1939: that's the reason why, and there's nothing to be added. One peculiarity of the poem is that it has inspired and originated two songs in two different languages: Italian (L'uomo, la donna e il fiore) and Icelandic (Síðasta blóm í heimi). This is the page of the Icelandic song. Though contributed in 2014, it had never been translated in any language whatsoever. The page includes now an Italian translation (a word-for-word one) and this English version, much further removed from the Icelandic lyrics written by Magnús Ásgeirsson (and not fully respecting the poem's layout) but, hopefully, without betraying the Icelandic poem's spirit and meaning. [RV]