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Billy Collins

AIMLESS LOVE

  • 1 Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun In The House | Translations: dehu
  • 2 Forgetfulness | Translations: dehu
  • 3 NIGHTCLUB | Translations: dehu
  • 4 LITANY | Translations: dehu
  • 5 AIMLESS LOVE | Translations: dehu
  • 6 SURPRISE | Translations: dehu
  • 7 Drinking Alone
  • 8 Orient
Language: english
Translations: german (Ziellose Liebe), hungarian (Iránytalan szerelem)
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AIMLESS LOVE

This morning as I walked along the lakeshore,
I fell in love with a wren
and later in the day with a mouse
the cat had dropped under the dining room table.
 
In the shadows of an autumn evening,
I fell for a seamstress
still at her machine in the tailor’s window,
and later for a bowl of broth,
steam rising like smoke from a naval battle.
 
This is the best kind of love, I thought,
without recompense, without gifts,
or unkind words, without suspicion,
or silence on the telephone.
 
The love of the chestnut,
the jazz cap and one hand on the wheel.
 
No lust, no slam of the door –
the love of the miniature orange tree,
the clean white shirt, the hot evening shower,
the highway that cuts across Florida.
 
No waiting, no huffiness, or rancor –
just a twinge every now and then
 
for the wren who had built her nest
on a low branch overhanging the water
and for the dead mouse,
still dressed in its light brown suit.
 
But my heart is always propped up
in a field on its tripod,
ready for the next arrow.
 
After I carried the mouse by the tail
to a pile of leaves in the woods,
I found myself standing at the bathroom sink
gazing down affectionately at the soap,
 
so patient and soluble,
so at home in its pale green soap dish.
I could feel myself falling again
as I felt its turning in my wet hands
and caught the scent of lavender and stone.

© Random House
From: Nine Horses: Poems
New York: Random House, 2002
Audio production: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin 2011

Translations:

Language: german

Ziellose Liebe

Heute Morgen, als ich am Ufer des Sees entlanglief,
verliebte ich mich in einen Zaunkönig
und später am Tag in eine Maus –
die Katze hatte sie unter den Esszimmertisch gelegt.

Im Dämmerlicht eines Herbstabends
verliebte ich mich in eine Näherin,
an ihrer Maschine noch im Fenster der Schneiderei,
und später in eine Schüssel Brühe,
Dampf stieg auf wie Qualm bei einer Seeschlacht.

Das ist die beste Art zu lieben, dachte ich,
ohne Wiedergutmachungen, ohne Geschenke
oder unschöne Worte, ohne Misstrauen
oder Schweigen am Telefon.

Die Liebe zu einer Kastanie,
einer coolen Mütze und der einen Hand am Lenkrad.

Ohne Begierde und Türenschlagen
die Liebe zu einem Bonsai-Orangen-Baum,
einem sauberen weißen Hemd, einer heißen Dusche am Abend,
dem Highway, der durch Florida schneidet.

Kein Warten, keine Gereiztheit oder Verbitterung –
nur ein Stechen dann und wann

für den Zaunkönig, der sein Nest
auf einem niedrigen Ast über dem Wasser baute,
und für die tote Maus,
weiterhin in ihren hellbraunen Mantel gekleidet.

Doch mein Herz auf seinem Stativ
auf freiem Feld erwartet
immer schon den nächsten Pfeil.

Nachdem ich die Maus an ihrem Schwanz
zu einem Laubhaufen im nahen Wald brachte,
ertappe ich mich am Waschbecken im Bad,
wie ich verzückt auf die Seife starre,

so duldsam und auflösbar,
so zu Hause in ihrer blassgrünen Seifenschale,
dass ich mich schon wieder verliere,
sobald meine nassen Hände ihr Glitschen fühlen
und mir der Duft von Lavendel und Stein in die Nase steigt.

aus dem Amerikanischen von Ron Winkler
Language: hungarian

Iránytalan szerelem

Ma reggel, amikor a tóparton sétáltam,
beleszerettem egy ökörszembe,
később pedig, de még aznap, egy egérbe,
amit a macska ejtett el az ebédlőasztal alatt.

Egy őszi este árnyékai között
belezúgtam egy varrónőbe,
aki még mindig a gépnél ül, a szabóműhely kirakatában,
később egy tányér húslevesbe,
amely úgy gőzölög, ahogy egy tengeri csata füstje száll fel.

Ez a fajta a legjobb szerelem, gondoltam,
viszonzás nélkül, ajándékok nélkül,
kegyetlen szavak, gyanakvás
vagy a telefoncsöndek nélkül.

A szerelem a gesztenye, egy fedora kalap,
az egy kézzel tartott kormány iránt.

Semmi bujaság, semmi ajtócsapkodás:
a miniatűr narancsfa,
a tiszta fehér póló, az esti forró zuhany,
a Floridát átszelő autópálya iránti szerelem.

Semmi várakozás, semmi sértődés vagy harag –
csak néha egy kis szúró fájdalom
az ökörszemért, aki a fészket egy alacsony,
víz fölé hajló ágra építette,
és az elpusztult egérért,
akin még mindig a világosbarna öltönye van.

De a szívem közben ott van a mezőn,
egy háromlábú állványon,
kitéve a következő nyílnak.

Miután a farkánál fogva kivittem az egeret
az erdőbe egy avarkupachoz,
azon kaptam magam, hogy a mosdónál állok,
és érzelmesen nézem lent a szappant,

amely oly türelmes, könnyen oldódó,
és annyira otthon van a halványzöld szappantartóban.
És tudtam, hogy megint szerelembe esem,
érezve, ahogy vizes kezeim között forog,
és ahogy hirtelen megcsap a levendula és a kő illata.

Kőrizs Imre fordítása
Megjelent: Billy Collins, Az a baj a költészettel, vál., ford., utószó Kőrizs Imre, Jelenkor Kiadó, Budapest, 2020.

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Billy Collins

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* , New York, United States
lives in: Somers, United States

Billy Collins was born in New York City in 1941. He is the author of several award winding books of poetry, and a recording of reading thirty-three of his poems, The Best Cigarette, was released in 1997. Collins's poetry has appeared in anthologies, textbooks, and a variety of periodicals, including Poetry, American Poetry Review, American Scholar, Harper's, Paris Review, and The New Yorker.

His work has been featured in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and has been chosen several times for the annual Best American Poetry series. Collins has edited Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (Random House, 2003), an anthology of contemporary poems for use in schools and was a guest editor for the 2006 edition of The Best American Poetry.

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In 2001, Collins was named U.S. Poet Laureate. His other honors and awards include fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1992, he was chosen by the New York Public Library to serve as 'Literary Lion'. He has conducted summer poetry workshops in Ireland at University College Galway, and taught at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence, and Lehman College, City University of New York. He lives in Somers, New York.

Publications
  • Pokerface

    Kenmore Press, 1977

  • Video Poems

    Applezaba Press, 1980

  • The Apple That Astonished Paris

    Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press, 1988

  • Questions About Angels

    Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991

  • The Art of Drowning

    Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995

  • The Best Cigarette

    Audio CD

    1997

  • Picnic, Lightning

    Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998

  • Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes: Selected Poems

    Picador, 2000

  • Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

    Random House, 2001

  • Nine Horses

    Random House, 2002

  • The Trouble with Poetry

    Random House, 2005

  • She Was Just Seventeen

    Santa Fe: Modern Haiku Press, 2006

  • Ballistics

    Random House, 2008

  • Horoscopes for the Dead

    Random House, 2011

Awards
  • 1983 Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts

  • 1986 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts

  • 1991 National Poetry Series Publication Prize

  • 1992 New York Public Library 'Literary Lion'

  • 1993 Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation

  • 1994 Poetry Magazine - Poet of the Year

  • 2001 American Irish Historical Society Cultural Award

  • 2001-2002 US Poet Laureate

  • 2004 New York State Poet Laureate

  • 2005 Mark Twain Award for Humor in Poetry

Links
  • Billy Collins

    complete resource for Billy Collins poems, books, recordings

  • Billy Collins at the Academy of American Poets

  • Billy Collins at Wikipedia

  • Trailer - Billy Collins Masterclass

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