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Tal Nitzán (טל ניצן)

נקודת הרוך

  • 1 בימי כּוֹלֵרה | Translations: esfrdeen
  • 2 נקודת הרוך | Translations: enesde
  • 3 נוקטורן | Translations: ende
  • 4 אחר צהריים וילדה | Translations: enesfrde
  • 5 הילד השלישי | Translations: endezhes
  • 6 בַּסִּירָה הַצָּרָה אֲנַחְנוּ שְׁנַיִם. | Translations: ende
  • 7 אפשרויות | Translations: endezhes
  • 8 נקרע | Translations: enfrdees
  • 9 (מתוך: באיזו ארץ) | Translations: enesde
  • 10 חסד | Translations: enfrdezhes
Language: hebrew
Translations: english (The point of tenderness), spanish (EL PUNTO DE LA TERNURA), german (Der weiche Punkt)
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נקודת הרוך

…at the hour when we are

trembling with tenderness

lips that would kiss

form prayers to broken stone.


                                    T.S. Eliot

כָּאן מְקוֹם הָרֹךְ.
גַּם אִם הַלֵּב בִּשְׁתִיקַתוֹ
נִבְלָע בְּתוֹךְ הָעִיר כְּמוֹ אֶבֶן –
דַּע שֶׁזּוֹהִי נְקֻדַּת הָרֹךְ.

תֵּן לִי יָד בָּעוֹלָם.
רָאִיתִי אֵם מְדַבֶּרֶת שִׂנְאָה אֶל יַלְדָּהּ,
מַדְבִּירָה בְּמִלִּים,
רָאִיתִי בִּנְיָן מִתְקַפֵּל לְאָבָק,
קוֹמָה לְאַט לְתוֹךְ קוֹמָה –  
כַּמָּה עָלֵינוּ לָחוּס,
כַּמָּה לְשַׁכֵּךְ.

כְּשֶׁלַּיְלָה נִסְגָּר עַל עֹרֶף לֹא מְנֻשָּׁק
אֵין לַזֶּה תַּקָּנָה: לְכָל מַחֲנָק
בְּכָל גָּרוֹן יֵשׁ רַק מַרְפֵּא אֶחָד,
רְאֵה, פָּשׁוּט, זוֹ הַנְּקֻדָּה.

© Tal Nitzán
From: The First to Forget
Am oved, 2009
Audio production: Helicon, 2010

Translations:

Language: english

The point of tenderness

…at the hour when we are

trembling with tenderness

lips that would kiss

form prayers to broken stone.


T.S. Eliot


This is where tenderness resides.
Even if the heart in its silence
sinks within the city like stone –
know that this is the tender point.

Hold my hand in this world.
I saw a mother talking hatred to her child,
exterminating with words,
I saw a building collapse into dust,
slowly, floor by floor –
how we need mercy,
how we need so to soothe.

When the night closes on an unkissed nape
it is beyond healing: each choking
of every throat has but one cure,
see, it's so simple,
it's the point.

Translated by Aliza Raz
Language: spanish

EL PUNTO DE LA TERNURA


…at the hour when we are

trembling with tenderness

lips that would kiss

form prayers to broken stone.


         T.S. Eliot


Aquí reside la ternura.
Aun si al corazón, en su mutismo,
se lo tragó la urbe como a una piedra;
debes saber: éste es el punto de la ternura.

Dame tu mano en el mundo.

Vi a una madre hablar odios a su hijo,
asolar con palabras,
vi plegarse un edificio hasta el polvo,
con lentitud, un piso dentro de otro.

Cuánto debemos apiadarnos,
cuánto apaciguar.

Cuando se cierra la noche
sobre una nuca que no fue besada
ya no hay remedio:
todo ahogo
en cada garganta,
tiene sólo una cura,
Mira, simplemente, éste es el punto.

Traducción: Gerardo Lewin
Language: german

Der weiche Punkt

…at the hour when we are
trembling with tenderness
lips that would kiss
form prayers to broken stone.
T.S. Eliot


Hier ist die weiche Stelle.
Auch wenn das Herz in seiner Stille
inmitten der Stadt wie ein Stein verschlungen ward –
wisse, dass dies der weiche Punkt ist.

Halte meine Hand in der Welt.
Ich sah eine Mutter, wie sie voll Hass zu ihrem Kinde spricht,
mit Worten vernichtet,
ich sah, wie ein Gebäude zu Staub zerfällt,
langsam, Etage für Etage –
wie viel wir zu bemitleiden,
wie viel wir zu lindern haben.
Wo die Nacht einen ungeküssten Nacken umschließt,
ist das nicht wieder gutzumachen: für jedes Ersticken
in jeder Kehle gibt es nur ein Heilmittel,
sieh, ganz einfach, dies ist der Punkt.

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טל ניצן

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* , Jaffa, Israel
lives in: Tel Aviv, Israel

Tal Nitzán is a poet, an editor and a translator of Hispanic literature.

Born in Jaffa, she has lived in Buenos Aires, Bogota & New York, currently lives in Tel Aviv.

Nitzán has translated circa 70 books into Hebrew, mainly from Spanish, including two anthologies of Latin American poetry, and adapted a Hebrew version of Don Quixote for youth (2006). Her translations include poetry works by Cervantes, Machado, García Lorca, Neruda, Paz, Borges, Vallejo, Pizarnik & Pavese, and prose by García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Cortázar, Onetti, Delibes, Toni Morrison, Ian McEwan, Angela Carter and many others.

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Nitzán is editor of the collection ‘Latino’, for translations from the Hispanic literature, the collection ‘Local’, for contemporary Hebrew prose, and the literary review ‘Lights’, for new writing after the masters.

Publications
  • Domestica

    Am oved, 2002

  • בעט ברזל: שירת מחאה עברית 2004-1984

    Editor

    Xargol, 2005

  • An Ordinary Evening

    Am oved, 2006

  • Café Soleil Bleu

    (with paintings by Mira Cedar)

    Even Hoshen, 2007

  • The first to forget

    Am oved, 2009

  • With an Iron pen: Hebrew Protest Poetry 1984-2004

    Editor (with Rachel Black)

    SUNY Press, USA, 2009

  • Five Windows to The Garden

    (A selection in Lithuanian)

    Vilnius: International Cultural Programme Center, 2009

  • Lividi

    (A selection in Italian)

    Napoli: Il Laboratorio, 2010

Awards
  • 1995 The Culture Minister Creation Prize for translators

  • 1998 The Women Writers’ Prize

  • 2001 The Culture Minister's Prize for Beginning Poets

  • 2002 The Culture Minister's Prize for debut book, for Domestica

  • 2004 an honorary medal from Chile’s president, for the translation of Pablo Neruda’s poetry.

  • 2005 The Culture Minister Creation Prize for translators

  • 2007 Artists & Writers Rights Society (Aku"m) Prize for poetry submitted anonimously

  • 2008 Publishers Association Prize (Bernstein Prize) for poetry book, for An Ordinary

Links
  • Tal Nitzán @ Poetry International Web

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