Inger Christensen, Susan Sontag, Reinhard Jirgl, Uwe Grüning

De Deense dichteres, schrijfster en essayiste Inger Christensen werd geboren op 16 januari 1935 in de stad Vejle aan de oostkust van Jutland. Zie ook mijn blog van 16 januari 2008 en ook mijn blog van 16 januari 2009 en ook mijn blog van 16 januari 2010.

 

If I stand

 

If I stand

alone in the snow

it is clear

that I am a clock

 

how else would eternity

find its way around

 

 

 

Light: Winter

 

Winter is out for a lot this year

the beach already is stiff

all will be one will be one this year

wings and ice will be one in the world

all will be changed in the world:

the boat will hear its steps on the ice

the war will hear its war on the ice

the woman will hear her hour on the ice

the hour of birth in the ice of death

winter is out for a lot.

Out for the houses the cities

out for the forests the clouds

the mountains the valleys fear

the heart the children peace.

 

Winter is out for a lot this year

the hand already is stiff

the crying of children is heard in the house

one will we be one life

I hear my house slip with the world

and scream all that has been screamed

the heart rams its boat into ice

shells rustling in the hull

winter is out for as much.

 

If I freeze fast in the ice

if you freeze fast my child

my great forest next summer

my great fear as I come

if you freeze fast my life:

then I am a vulture of wings and ice

tearing my liver, my living life

awake in eternity.

 

This winter is in for a lot.

 

 

Vertaald door Susanna Nied

 

 

Inger Christensen (16 januari 1935 – 2 januari 2009)

 

 

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Brian Castro, José Soares, Anthony Hecht, Aleksandar Tisma, Franz Tumler

De Australische schrijver en essayist Brian Castro werd geboren op 16 januari 1950 in Hongkong. Zie ook mijn blog van 16 januari 2009 en ook mijn blog van 16 januari 2010.

 

Uit: The Garden Book

 

„Sometimes when you walk down to the cairn they’ve erected in memory of the crash you feel a bit ghoulish – wun gwai, as they say amibiguously in Chinese, ‘hunting phantoms’ which also means ‘looking for nothing’. A daft undertaking. You wouldn’t want to die on the side of this mountain, overcome by smoke. There is a stony track leading from the lookout, littered with shattered bourbon bottles and flattened beer cans. Beneath that there are the burnt remains of other times; layers and older layers. For a forensic collector, everything has its sombre significance. You may be looking at the last moments of a human gesture.

A gale blows, circling up from the flats, making the wires whistles. Stringybarks rasp. At times the ground shudders when a giant eucalypt falls and then the air is thick with the smell of leaf and loam. They fall without warning; roots in soft volcanic soil, heavy branches swooning in gusts, swollen with leaves. Every limb a sword of Damocles. You are broaching a former wilderness here. The hills are studded with orchards and nurseries now, but seventy years ago huge mountain ash rose up hundreds of feet and cool, dark forests formed a blue wall against the creeping city. The wind rakes through them, tearing down bark, rending memory with enfilading fire. In a cutting off Ridge Road there is a clearing and the ground is covered by little mounds of cigarette butts where people have emptied their car ashtrays. Countless cairns of long-dead anxieties, burnt-out lusts, charred moments of fear. Ice cubes of broken windshield glass. Two syringes. Seven used condoms. You suspect French letters despoited in such a way archive a particular system which is part sociological, part psychological. Seven is an anxious number.“

 

 

Brian Castro (Hongkong, 16 januari 1950)

 

 

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Jules Supervielle, Robert W. Service, Kálmán Mikszáth, Saint-Simon, Nel Benschop

De Franstalige dichter en schrijver Jules Supervielle werd geboren op 16 januari 1884 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Zie ook mijn blog van 16 januari 2009 en ook mijn blog van 16 januari 2010. 

 

C’est vous quand vous êtes partie

 

C’est vous quand vous êtes partie,
L’air peu à peu qui se referme
Mais toujours prêt à se rouvrir
Dans sa tremblante cicatrice
Et c’est mon âme à contre-jour
Si profondément étourdie
De ce brusque manque d’amour
Qu’elle n’en trouve plus sa forme
Entre la douleur et l’oubli.
Et c’est mon cœur mal protégé
Par un peu de chair et tant d’ombre
Qui se fait au goût de la tombe
Dans ce rien de jour étouffé
Tombant des autres, goutte à goutte,
Miel secret de ce qui n’est plus
Qu’un peu de rêve révolu.

 

 

Jules Supervielle (16 januari 1884 – 17 mei 1960)

 

 

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