Henry Kendall, Thomas Middleton, Leif Panduro ,Udo Werner Steinberg, Katharina Schwanbeck

De Australische dichter Henry Kendall werd geboren op 18 april 1839 in Milton. Zie ook alle tags voor Henry Kendall op dit blog.

 

The Austral Months

June

Not like that month when, in imperial space,
The high, strong sun stares at the white world’s face;
Not like that haughty daughter of the year
Who moves, a splendour, in a splendid sphere;
But rather like a nymph of afternoon,
With cool, soft sunshine, comes Australian June.
She is the calm, sweet lady, from whose lips
No breath of living passion ever slips;
The wind that on her virgin forehead blows
Was born too late to speak of last year’s rose;
She never saw a blossom, but her eyes
Of tender beauty see blue, gracious skies;
She loves the mosses, and her feet have been
In woodlands where the leaves are always green;
Her days pass on with sea-songs, and her nights
Shine, full of stars, on lands of frosty lights.

 

July

High travelling winds, filled with the strong storm’s soul,
Are here, with dark, strange sayings from the Pole;
Now is the time when every great cave rings
With sharp, clear echoes caught from mountain springs;
This is the season when all torrents run
Beneath no bright, glad beauty of the sun.
Here, where the trace of last year’s green is lost,
Are haughty gales, and lordships of the frost.
Far down, by fields forlorn and forelands bleak,
Are wings that fly not, birds that never speak;
But in the deep hearts of the glens, unseen,
Stand grave, mute forests of eternal green;
And here the lady, born in wind and rain,
Comes oft to moan and clap her palms with pain.
This is our wild-faced July, in whose breast
Is never faultless light or perfect rest.

 

 
Henry Kendall (18 april 1839 – 1 augustus 1882)

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Henry Kendall, Thomas Middleton, Katharina Schwanbeck, Leif Panduro, Werner Steinberg

De Australische dichter Henry Kendall werd geboren op 18 april 1839 in Milton. Zie ook alle tags voor Henry Kendall op dit blog.

 

A Mountain Spring

Peace hath an altar there. The sounding feet
Of thunder and the wildering wings of rain
Against fire-rifted summits flash and beat,
And through grey upper gorges swoop and strain;
But round that hallowed mountain-spring remain,
Year after year, the days of tender heat,
And gracious nights whose lips with flowers are sweet,
And filtered lights, and lutes of soft refrain.
A still, bright pool. To men I may not tell
The secrets that its heart of water knows,
The story of a loved and lost repose;
Yet this I say to cliff and close-leaved dell:
A fitful spirit haunts yon limpid well,
Whose likeness is the faithless face of Rose.

 

Sonnets on the Discovery of Botany Bay by Captain Cook

The First Attempt to Reach the Shore

Where is the painter who shall paint for you,
My Austral brothers, with a pencil steeped
In hues of Truth, the weather-smitten crew
Who gazed on unknown shores—a thoughtful few—
What time the heart of their great Leader leaped
Till he was faint with pain of longing? New
And wondrous sights on each and every hand,
Like strange supernal visions, grew and grew
Until the rocks and trees, and sea and sand,
Danced madly in the tear-bewildered view!
And from the surf a fierce, fantastic band
Of startled wild men to the hills withdrew
With yells of fear! Who’ll paint thy face, O Cook!
Turned seaward, “after many a wistful look!”

 

Henry Kendall (18 april 1839 – 1 augustus 1882)
Henry Kendall Cottage and Historical Museum, Gosford

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Henry Kendall, Thomas Middleton, Katharina Schwanbeck, Leif Panduro, Werner Steinberg

De Australische dichter Henry Kendall werd geboren op 18 april 1839 in Milton. Zie ook mijn blog van 18 april 2007 en ook mijn blog van 18 april 2008 en ook mijn blog van 18 april 2009 en ook mijn blog van 18 april 2010.

 

 

A Birthday Trifle 

 

Here in this gold-green evening end,

While air is soft and sky is clear,

What tender message shall I send

To her I hold so dear?

What rose of song with breath like myrrh,

And leaf of dew and fair pure beams

Shall I select and give to her—

The lady of my dreams?

Alas! the blossom I would take,

The song as sweet as Persian speech,

And carry for my lady’s sake,

Is not within my reach.

I have no perfect gift of words,

Or I would hasten now to send

A ballad full of tunes of birds

To please my lovely friend.

 

But this pure pleasure is my own,

That I have power to waft away

A hope as bright as heaven’s zone

On this her natal day.

May all her life be like the light

That softens down in spheres divine,

“As lovely as a Lapland night,”

All grace and chastened shine!

 

 

Stanzas 

 

The sunsets fall and the sunsets fade,

But still I walk this shadowy land;

And grapple the dark and only the dark

In my search for a loving hand.

 

For it’s here a still, deep woodland lies,

With spurs of pine and sheaves of fern;

But I wander wild, and wail like a child

For a face that will never return!

 

And it’s here a mighty water flows,

With drifts of wind and wimpled waves;

But the darling head of a dear one dead

Is hidden beneath its caves.

 

 

Henry Kendall (18 april 1839 – 1 augustus 1882)

Op 31-jarige leeftijd

 

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Bas Belleman, Kathy Acker, Joy Davidman, Leif Panduro

De Nederlandse dichter Bas Belleman werd in Alkmaar geboren “op een heldere ochtend in april” (Rottend Staal) van het jaar 1978. Zie ook mijn blog van 31 maart 2006 en ook mijn blog van 18 april 2008 en ook mijn blog van 18 april 2009.

Mee te nemen

rekbaar meetlint piepschuimen schaar
dikke wanten sneeuw in de vriezer
om weg te smijten zwermen
mussen om los te laten balonnen
vol paniek ik moet mijn koffers
nog zuiveren moet mijn kartonnen
dozen nog vouwen flessen naar de glasbak
vlokken uit de asbak ik
moet nog de verf van de muren krabben
en morgen vertrek ik smeltbare
borden lucifers kaarten met
naakte vrouwen muizengif van
voor de houdbaarheidsdatum klei
om de kieren dicht te smeren

 

Muggen

texas/mijn huid
zo ordelijk mijn bloed eruit
gepompt door minuscule buisjes/snuitjes

muggen dresseren, muggen
door vuur leren scheren
zeggen geluk, zeggen

boor mijn vijand aan
steek je snuit in zijn bloed
laat een veld van bulten achter

als een soldaat in gevecht om olievelden
spat in extase uit je pantser
en laat mij alleen, met mijn anti-stift

*

snooker op een slechte dag
ik zie toch waar de lijnen liggen?
weet exact wat ik moet

leg mijn hand op haar wang,
weet exact wat ik
flakkerhand

en dan zijn er dan ook, het zijn exact

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Bas Belleman (Alkmaar, april 1978)

 

 

De Amerikaanse schrijfster, essayiste en feministe Kathy Acker werd op 18 april 1947 in New York geboren als Karen Alexander. Zie ook mijn blog van 18 april 2009.

 

Uit: Great Expectations

 

This is the dream I have: I’m running away from men who are trying to damage me permanently. I love mommy. I know she’s on Dex, and when she’s not on Dex she’s on Librium to counteract the Dex jitters so she acts more extreme than usual. A second orgasm cools her shoulders, the young girl keeps her hands joined over the curly brownhaired’s ass, the wire grating gives way, the curly brownhaired slides the young girl under him his pants are still around his knees his fingernails claw the soil his breath sucks in the young girl’s cheek blows straw dust around, the mute young girl’s stomach muscles weld to the curly- haired’s abdominal muscles, the passing wind immediately modulates the least organic noise that’s why one text must subvert (the meaning of) another text until there’s only background music like reggae: the inextricability of relation-textures the organic (not meaning) recovered, stupid ugly horrible a mess pinhead abominable vomit eyes- pop-out always-presenting-disgust-always presenting-what-people-flee always-wanting-to-be-lonely infect my mother my mother, blind fingernails spit the eyes wandering from the curly-headed, the curly- headed’s hidden balls pour open cool down on the young girl’s thigh. Under the palmtrees the RIMAS seize and drag a fainted woman under a tent, a flushing-forehead blond soldier burning coals glaze his eyes piss stops up her sperm grasps this woman in his arms, their hands their lips touch lick the woman’s clenched face while the blond soldier’s greasy wine-stained arm supports her body, the young girl RECOVERED.“

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Kathy Acker (18 april 1947 – 30 november 1997)

 

 

De Amerikaanse dichteres en schrijfster Joy Davidman werd geboren op 18 april 1915 in New York. Zie ook mijn blog van 18 april 2009.

 

Near Catalonia

 

We have the sweet noise of the sea at our back
and before us the bitter shouting of the gun;
and the brass wing of aeroplanes and the sun
that walks about us burning. Here we wound
our feet on metal fragments of the bomb,
the sword unburied and the poisoned ground.
Here we stand; here we lie; here we must see
what we can find potent and good to set
between the Fascist and the deep blue sea.

 

If we had bricks that could make a wall we would use them,
but bricks will break under a cannonball;
if we had iron we would make a wall,
but iron rings and splinters at the bomb
and wings go across the sky and over a wall,
and if we made a barrier with our earth
they would murder the earth with Fascist poison,
and no one will give us iron for the wall.
We have only the bodies of men to put together,
the wincing flesh, the peeled white forking stick,
easily broken, easily made sick,
frightened of pain and spoiled by evil weather;
we have only the most brittle of all things the man
and the heart the most iron admirable thing of all,
and putting these together will make a wall.

 

joy-davidman

Joy Davidman (18 april 1915 – 13 juli 1960)

 

De Deense schrijver Leif Thormod Panduro werd geboren op 18 april 1923 in Frederiksberg. Zie ook mijn blog van 18 april 2009.

 

Uit: L’erreur, ou la relation rapide et approximative du cas Marius Berg

     (Vertaald door Susanne Juul et Bernard Saint Bonnet)

 

Maigrir est une chose grave. J’essaye souvent. Mais au bout d’une petite semaine, je me mets à penser aux symptômes du cancer: manque d’appétit et perte de poids. J’ai connu un type qui avait décidé de faire un régime. Ça alla un temps comme sur des roulettes. Tout le monde le félicita pour sa volonté de fer. Il continua à maigrir, loin en-dessous du poids que la science préconise pour des gens de sa stature. Il maigrissait et maigrissait. On découvrit qu’il souffrait d’un cancer du pancréas. Rien de plus facile que de maigrir dans ces conditions. Invariablement je me mets à penser à ce type dès que je fais une petite semaine de régime. Après, il me faut à tout prix me convaincre moi-même que je ne souffre pas d’un cancer. Le docteur A. essaye régulièrement de réprimer mes angoisses avec ce concept fallacieux que je serais hypocondriaque. Mais un tel diagnostic ne sert à rien. Les hypocondriaques aussi meurent de toutes sortes de maladies. Ce n’est absolument pas une garantie d’être hypocondriaque. On meurt quand même.““

 

Leif_Panduro

Leif Panduro (18 april 1923 – 16 januari 1977)


Zie voor nog meer schrijvers van de 18e april ook
mijn vorige blog van vandaag.

Kathy Acker, Bas Belleman, Leif Panduro, Joy Davidman, Henry Kendall, Thomas Middleton, Richard Harding Davis, Werner Steinberg

De Amerikaanse schrijfster, essayiste en feministe Kathy Acker werd op 18 april 1947 in New York geboren als Karen Alexander. Later gebruikte zij de achternaam van haar eerste echtgenoot. Als vrouwelijke tegenhanger van Burroughs shockeerde Acker vanaf de jaren zeventig conservatief Amerika met haar literair oeuvre vol vrouwelijke lust en geweld. Acker speelde een belangrijke rol in de strijd tot zelfbewustwording van vrouwen en leidde een bandeloos leven. Haar boeken zijn een lappendeken van feiten en fictie, biografische elementen, seks en genadeloze politieke satire.

 

Uit: Essential Acker. The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker

 

“I’m not under pressure constantly to fuck them watch if my clothing’s always closed which it’s not I was feeling anomalous Mark started saying the mattress in the waterbed on the waterbed is torn I have to fix it he even threaded a real needle Lenny can you help me Ronny’s cracking ridiculous jokes Mark’s done it so often he even has it timed Mark says you can watch Ronny’s not a voyeur we watch Rat-Race Debbie Schmereynolds an incredibly creepy flic in which Debbie’s a good girl who’d rather give up her guy than prostitute I don’t remember if she’s living with him in sin it was very romantic Ronny and I were finally talking Johnny Carson turned on crude gags about hookers drag queens everyone’s one for fun I’m learning about Middle America the whole place is mad I’m cold to Lenny don’t admit I am which is nasty I want to see my cats Mark has one Tiffany she’s seven weeks pregnant and crawls through almost closed windows and bars no one else comes it was a party not even Mickey Mark said that Mickey would be very upset if he knew that Mark slept with anyone else Mark would if Mickey did it’s quite nutty there’s this rich guy Jack who’s been supporting Mark still is? they have an expensive looking place not much furniture yet no books of course we’re open for any garbage I get pissed off when Mark kisses me and calls me a girl he’s upset I am I try to relax rub him goodnight Lenny’s acting like he’s lost his mind we get a ride with this dope seller creep doesn’t know why anyone would live in a commune not enough money to the Eighth Street subway this is the first dream sequence 1:17 I have to go out for the rest of the day get my hair cut again thank god.”

 

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Kathy Acker (18 april 1947 – 30 november 1997)

 

De Nederlandse dichter Bas Belleman werd in Alkmaar geboren “op een heldere ochtend in april” (Rottend Staal) van het jaar 1978. Zie ook mijn blog van 31 maart 2006 en ook mijn blog van 18 april 2008.

 

zeg me na

 

het pad van de schaamte zal
als een möbiusband onder zichzelf doorschieten;
ik zweer dat ik tillen zal
mijn eigen voeten
en dat zeg ik na.

 

ik zing het na.

 

in de folder een rekeningnummer
dat je vertrouwen kunt als iemand die zegt:
mij kun je vertrouwen.

 

als een vrouw die een verbod op jaloezie uitvaardigt:
vertrouw je me soms niet?

 

ik blijf het zingen.

 

toch ploffen vrijwilligers naast me neer op de bank.
ik sla op de vlucht door de kruipruimte onder mijn huis.
ze roffelen op de vloer:
h
ad ons er dan niet ingelaten.
je hebt ons er toch ingelaten?

 

Belleman

Bas Belleman (Alkmaar, april 1978)

 

De Deense schrijver Leif Thormod Panduro werd geboren op 18 april 1923 in Frederiksberg. Van beroep was hij tandarts en hij begon pas als dertiger verhalen te schrijven, vaak over mensen die zich niet aan de regels van de maatschappij kunnen aanpassen. Kick Me in the Traditions gaat over een adolescent die in een gesticht beland, omdat hij denkt dat de samenleving gek is geworden.

 

Uit: Kick Me in the Traditions (Vertaald door Carl Malmberg)

 

“On the way out we met old Jacob. He stood with Hubert trying to understand jazz music. They played one of my records in there: “Sorry” with Bix Beiderbeck, which by the way is a fantastic record. And Hubert stood clapping  his hands on two and four and said that that’s the real rhythm of jazz. Old Jacob said that  according to his tastes it sounded quite incomprehensible, but that he might learn to

understand it if he tried really hard. Isn’t that cute?

Lis and I passed them and I tell  you Hubert looked crestfallen. He got so confused he started clapping on one and three  instead of the right ones. And old Jacob suddenly looked happy and said that now he understood it at last. So help me God!”

 

Panduro

Leif Panduro (18 april 1923 – 16 januari 1977)

 

De Amerikaanse dichteres en schrijfster Joy Davidman werd geboren op 18 april 1915 in New York. Zij groeide op in een joodse familie en was als kind al vaak ziek. Zij trouwde met de schrijver William Lindsay Gresham. Diens alcoholisme leidde tot een scheiding. Eind jaren veertig bekeerde zij zich tot het Christendom en trok met haar kinderen naar Engeland om de schrijver C. S. Lewis te ontmoeten die haar diepgaand beïnvloed had. Uiteindelijk trouwde zij ook met hem, Al voor het huwelijk was botkanker bij haar vastgesteld. Zij overleed op 45-jarige leeftijd.

 

Snow in Madrid

 

Softly, so casual,

Lovely, so light, so light,

The cruel sky lets fall

Something one does not fight.

How tenderly to crown

The brutal year

The clouds send something down

That one need not fear.

Men before perishing

See with unwounded eye

For once a gentle thing

Fall from the sky.

 

davidman

Joy Davidman (18 april 1915 – 13 juli 1960)

 

De Australische dichter Henry Kendall werd geboren op 18 april 1839 in Milton. Zie ook mijn blog van 18 april 2007 en ook mijn blog van 18 april 2008.

 

Amongst the Roses

  

I walked through a Forest, beneath the hot noon,

On Etheline calling and calling!

One said: “She will hear you and come to you soon,

When the coolness, my brother, is falling.”

But I whispered: “O Darling, I falter with pain!”

And the thirsty leaves rustled, and hissed for the rain,

Where a wayfarer halted and slept on the plain;

And dreamt of a garden of Roses!

Of a cool sweet place,

And a nestling face

In a dance and a dazzle of Roses.

In the drought of a Desert, outwearied, I wept,

O Etheline, darkened with dolours!

But, folded in sunset, how long have you slept

By the Roses all reeling with colours?

A tree from its tresses a blossom did shake,

It fell on her face, and I feared she would wake,

So I brushed it away for her sweet sake;

In that garden of beautiful Roses!

In the dreamy perfumes

From ripe-red blooms

In a dance and a dazzle of Roses.

 

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Henry Kendall (18 april 1839 – 1 augustus 1882)
Monument in Kendall

 

De Engelse dichter en schrijver Thomas Middleton werd in Londen geboren en daar gedoopt op 18 april 1580. Zie ook mijn blog van 18 april 2007 en ook mijn blog van 18 april 2008.

 

Uit: The Puritan

 

„Enter the Widow Plus, her two daughters Frank and Moll, her husband’s brother, an old knight, Sir Godfrey, with her son and heir, Master Edmond, all in mourning apparel, Edmond in a cypress hat, the Widow wringing her hands and bursting out into passion, as newly come from the burial of her husband.

WIDOW

Oh, that ever I was born, that ever I was born!

SIR GODFREY

Nay, good sister, dear sister, sweet sister, be of good comfort; show yourself a woman now or never.

WIDOW

Oh, I have lost the dearest man, I have buried the sweetest husband that ever lay by woman!

SIR GODFREY

Nay, give him his due, he was indeed an honest, virtuous, discreet, wise man. He was my brother, as right as right.

WIDOW

Oh, I shall never forget him, never forget him! He was a man so well given to a woman. Oh!

SIR GODFREY

Nay, but, kind sister, I could weep as much as any woman; but, alas, our tears cannot call him again. Methinks you are well read, sister, and know that death is as common as homo, a common name to all men. A man shall be taken when he’s making water. Nay, did not the learned parson, Master Pigman, tell us e’en now that all flesh is frail, we are born to die, man has but a time, with such-like deep and profound persuasions, as he is a rare fellow, you know, and an excellent reader. And for example, as there are examples abundance, did not Sir Humphrey Bubble die t’other day? There’s a lusty widow! Why, she cry’d not above half an hour! For shame, for shame! Then followed him old Master Fulsome, the usurer; there’s a wise widow: why, she cry’d ne’er a whit at all.

 

Middleton

Thomas Middleton (18 april 1580 – 4 juli 1627)

 

De Amerikaanse journalist en schrijver Richard Harding Davis werd geboren op 18 april 1864 in Philadelphia. Zie ook mijn blog van 18 april 2007 en ook mijn blog van 18 april 2008.

 

Uit: Gallegher and Other Stories

 

We had had so many office-boys before Gallegher came among us that they had begun to lose the characteristics of individuals, and became merged in a composite photograph of small boys, to whom we applied the generic title of “Here, you”; or “You, boy.”

All Gallegher knew had been learnt on the streets; not a very good school in itself, but one that turns out very knowing scholars. And Gallegher had attended both morning and evening sessions. He could not tell you who the Pilgrim Fathers were, nor could he name the thirteen original States, but he knew all the officers of the twenty-second police district by name, and he could distinguish the clang of a fire-engine’s gong from that of a patrol-wagon or an ambulance fully two

blocks distant. It was Gallegher who rang the alarm when the Woolwich Mills caught fire, while the officer on the beat was asleep, and it was Gallegher who led the “Black Diamonds” against the “Wharf Rats,” when they used to stone each other to their hearts’ content on the coal-wharves of Richmond.“

 

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Richard Harding Davis (18 april 1864—11 april 1916)

 

De Duitse schrijver Werner Steinberg werd geboren op 18 april 1913 in Neurode. Zie ook mijn blog van 18 april 2007.

Uit: Einzug der Gladiatoren

„Eigentlich möchte der Mann es aufgeben. Er hat sich das alles so leicht und so heroisch vorgestellt, und nun ist es ganz anders. Gerstern noch war es kalt, der Himmel war blau, heute ist die Welt in ein einziges schmutziges Grau zusammengeronnen, unaufhörlich fällt der Regen.
Dieser verdammte Regen! Nicht nur die Schuhe des Mannes sind dreckig vom Landstraßenschmutz, auch seine Hosen sind zerweicht und grau. Schon länger als drei Stunden wandert er hier, zwei Kilometer vor der Stadt, hin und her – fünfzig Meter hin, fünfzig Meter her. Zuerst hat er gestanden und angestrengt gelauscht, aber nichts war zu hören als das gleichförmige Geräusch des Regens…“

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Werner Steinberg (18 april 1913 – 25 april 1992)