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Golan Haji

قَبْليْ

  • 1 هِلال | Translations: deenfr
  • 2 شجرةٌ لا أعرف اسمها | Translations: deen
  • 3 نهاية الأيام | Translations: deen
  • 4 (فقّاعة) | Translations: en
  • 5 بيت آخر | Translations: enfr
  • 6 قَبْليْ | Translations: enfr
  • 7 ضوء آذار | Translations: enfr
  • 8 *** [العصفورُ الذي رفرفَ عن سلكِ] | Translations: en
  • 9 أعشاش فارغة | Translations: en
  • 10 الابن الثامن | Translations: enfr
  • 11 (وأنتَ تغادرُ غرفةً مشمسة ناداك صوتٌ "ابقَ") | Translations: en
  • 12 المسيح العجوز | Translations: en
  • 13 (بئر في مقبرة بعيدة) | Translations: en
  • 14 (المتلصّص) | Translations: enfr
  • 15 يقظات الرابعة فجراً
Language: arabic
Translations: english (Before Me), french (Avant moi)
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قَبْليْ


تحت البُطْمةِ البرتقاليّة،
      عذرائِنا الساكتة،
 تنتِشُ حبّةُ شعيرٍ محَتْ ثآليلَهما
    ويهزُّ كبشي النائمُ قرنيهِ الحلزونين
         فيرنُّ جرسي بين صوفهِ المحَنَّى
           ويصمتُ جدجدٌ على السلّمِ الخشبيّ.

بين ذراعي أبي، السمراوين النحيلتين،
     تحت نجومِ الصيفِ الغزيرة
تتلمّسُ أمي في الهواءِ الكُحليّ
       عند الوحمةِ المكوَّرةِ بلونِ الزبيب
                   أسفلَ أذنِها اليمنى
 تتلمّسُ دبوساً نسيتْهُ في خِمارِها الموصليّ
        دبوساً فضياً
              وأزرقَ كقطرةِ الوشمِ الفاتحة
                    بين حاجبيها الرقيقين
       ثم تطبِقُ جفنَها الناعس
          على نيزكٍ ينسكب
     وتحلمُ بولادتي مرّةً أخرى. 

© Golan Haji
Audio production: Haus für Poesie, 2019

Translations:

Language: english

Before Me

Under the terebinth tree with its orange fruit,
our silent virgin,
grows a single barley stalk whose grain cured their warts.
My sleeping ram shakes his spiral horns,
ringing the bell in his henna-tinted fleece
and the cricket on the wooden ladder quiets down.

In my father’s thin brown arms
under the abundant summer stars
in kohl-blue air, my mother touches
the round, raisin-colored mole
under her right ear.
She fingers a forgotten pin on the muslin veil
that holds her hair back, silver
and blue, like the faded tattoo
between her fine brows.
Then she lowers her sleepy eyelids
beneath the spilling of a shooting star
and dreams once more of my birth.

Translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Hacker,
published in The Wolf magazine, issue 34, 2017
Language: french

Avant moi

Sous la térébinthe aux fleurs oranges
notre vierge silencieuse
où pousse une graine d'orge qui a guéri leurs verrues
mon bélier endormi secoue ses deux cornes spirales 
ma clochette sonne dans son toison coloré de henné  
et le grillon se tait sur l'échelle de bois 

Dans les bras basanés et maigris de mon père 
sous les étoiles abondantes de l'été 
ma mère palpe dans un air bleu comme le khôl 
le grain de beauté  ronde couleur de raisin sec 
sous son oreille droite 
Elle tâtonne une épingle oubliée sur le voile de mousseline 
qui tient ses cheveux, argentée 
et bleue comme un trait du tatouage fané 
entre ses sourcils délicats 
puis elle ferme ses paupières somnolentes 
sur une étoile filante qui se déverse 
et elle rêve une fois de plus de ma  naissance.


Traduit de l’arabe par Marilyn Hacker
publié dans la revue Europe, avril 2017
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Golan Haji

photo © Marti-Albesa
* 10.11.1977, Amouda, Syria
lives in: Paris, France

Golan Haji is a Syrian-Kurdish poet, essayist and translator with a postgraduate degree in pathology. He was born in 1977 in Amouda, a Kurdish town in the northeast of Syria. He studied medicine at the University of Damascus.

He now lives in Saint-Denis, a suburb of Paris. He has published four books of poems in Arabic: He Called Out Within The Darknesses (2004), Someone Sees You as a Monster (2008), Autumn, Here, is Magical and Vast (2013), Scale of Injury (2016). His translations from English and French include (among others) books by Mark Strand, Robert Louis Stevenson and Alberto Manguel. He also published Until The War, 2016, a book of prose based on interviews with Syrian women.

 photo © Marti-Albesa
Publications
  • He Called Out Within The Darknesses

    [book of poems in Arabic]

    2004

  • Someone Sees You as a Monster

    [book of poems in Arabic]

    2008

  • Adulterers

    Translated into Danish by the Danish poet Jesper Berg

    Copenhagen: Forlaget Korridor, 2011

  • بيتي البارد البائد

    [My Cold Faraway Home]

    Beirut: Dar-al Jamal, 2012

  • Autumn, Here, is Magical and Vast

    bilingual edition Arabic-Italian

    Rome: Il Sirente, 2013

  • Until The War

    (prose)

    collaboration with Estayqazat, a Syrian feminist movement - based on interviews with Syrian women

    Beirut: Riad El-Rayyes, 2016

  • Alberto Manguel - A Reader on Reading

    Translated by Golan Haji

    Beirut: Dar Al- Saqi, 2016

  • Scale of Injury

    [book of poems in Arabic]

    Milan: Al-Mutawassit, 2016

  • A Tree Whose Name I Don’t Know

    Translated by Stephen Watts & Golan Haji

    New York: A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2017

Awards
  • 2004 Mohammad Al-Maghout prize

  • 2019 Faber Residency

Links
  • A Note on Syrian Poetry Today

    Golan Haji for Words without Borders

    Website
  • On Dispersal and Translation: Golan Haji's “A Tree Whose Name I Don't Know”

    Translations Reviewed by Translators

    Website
  • Golan Haji: ‘It’s Not Easy To Go for What One Loves'

    Interview

    Website
  • poem by Golan Haji: Autumn Here is Magical and Vast

    Translated from Arabic by Stephen Watts

    Website
  • poem by Golan Haji: A Light In Water

    Translated from Arabic by Stephen Watts

    Website
  • Two Poems by Fady Joudah and Golan Haji @ World Literature Today

    works of a collaboration

    Website

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