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Leif Holmstrand (Leif Holmstrand)

Avstå från tragedierna II

  • 1 Avstå från tragedierna I | Translations: enesde
  • 2 Avstå från tragedierna II | Translations: enesde
  • 3 Avstå från tragedierna III | Translations: enesde
  • 4 Avstå från tragedierna IV | Translations: enesde
  • 5 Avstå från tragedierna V | Translations: enesde
Language: swedish
Translations: english (Refrain from Tragedies II), spanish (Renuncia a las tragedias II), german (Verzichten auf Tragödien II)
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Avstå från tragedierna II

II

vad händer om du slutar gnaga på underhållningen och istället riktar denna

råttlika energi inåt mot ett skamligt särslitet inre #dramakomedi

             När det kommer plötsligt regn över våra

                torra försök till kontakt mellan

                arter är det dags för de andra organismerna

                att inte bara födas, utan också frodas.

                Vi slår självklart tillbaka, så råttlikt vi kan,

                misslyckas, överlever trots allt

                och kiknar av skratt, uppriktigt lyckliga.

 

Written: 2017
© Leif Holmstrand
From: Avstå från tragedierna
Trombone, 2017
ISBN: 9789188125088
Audio production: Haus für Poesie, 2019
Categories: experimental poetry, with music / sound

Translations:

Language: english

Refrain from Tragedies II

II

what happens when you stop fretting about entertainment and instead direct this

 rat-like energy inward toward a shameful worn-out interior #dramacomedy

                                    When rain suddenly falls over our

                                    dry attempts to make contact with other

                                    species it is time for the other organisms

                                    to not just be born, but also to thrive.

                                    We will of course strike back, in our most rat-like ways,

                                    and fail, but survive all the same

                                    and faint from laughter, honest joy.

 

Translated by Johannes Göransson
Language: spanish

Renuncia a las tragedias II

II

qué pasa si dejas de mordisquear el entretenimiento y diriges esta energía de rata hacia

un adentro vergonzosamente rasgado #comediadramática

               Cuando cae una lluvia repentina sobre

               nuestros secos intentos de contacto entre

               las especies, es hora de que los otros organismos

               no solo nazcan, sino que también prosperen.

               Claro que devolvemos el golpe, a manera de rata,

               fracasamos, sobrevivimos a pesar de todo

               y nos morimos de la risa, sinceramente felices.

Traducción: Petronella Zetterlund
Language: german

Verzichten auf Tragödien II

II
was passiert wenn du aufhörst an der Unterhaltung zu nippen und stattdessen diese
rattenhafte Energie nach innen richtest in ein schändlich zerrissnes inneres #dramödie


         Wenn plötzlich Regen fällt auf unsere

            trockenen Versuche zu einem Kontakt zwischen

            Arten ist es an der Zeit für die andern Organismen

            nicht allein geboren zu werden, sondern zu gedeihen.

            Wir schlagen selbstverständlich zurück, so rattenhaft wir können,

            scheitern, überleben trotz allem

            und ersticken vor Lachen, aufrichtig glücklich.

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Leif Holmstrand

Leif Holmstrand

photo © Leif Holmstrand
* 18.04.1972, Mariannelund, Sweden
lives in: Malmö, Sweden

Leif Holmstrand is a poet, artist and musician born in 1972. Holmstrand lives in Malmö in southern Sweden and published his first collection of poetry, Stekelgång (Sawflywalk) in 2002. Since then published more than 30 books and chapbooks, both poetry and novels as well as artist-books. He has also published three collections of poetry under the penname Anna-Maria Ytterbom.

As well as an artist and as a writer Holmstrand has recieved a number of rewards and prizes, including the prestigious Mare Kandre Prize.

 photo © Leif Holmstrand
Holmstrand's writing reflects a restless practice that freely moves in a non-straight historiography. Lately his poetry has approached magical chants and invocations and his readings merges with his performance art. All to delineate possible life in a moribund world.

Publications
  • Stekelgång

    Stockholm: Bonnier, 2002

  • Gå vidare i världen

    Stockholm: Bonnier, 2005

  • En film om Firman och Hannas vad / Stillbilder etc.

    under the pseudonym Anna-Maria Ytterbom

    Oei editör, 2006

  • Myror

    dikter

    Stockholm: Bonnier, 2008

  • Hennes titellösa februari lägger vikt vid saker

    under the pseudonym Anna-Maria Ytterbom

    Oei editör, 2008

  • Vid mardrömmens mål

    dikt

    Stockholm: Bonnier, 2010

  • Dödens ö / Ganymedes och Hebe

    drama

    co-operation with Bo Cavefors

    2010

  • Se mig hoppa över

    Malmö: Pequod press, 2010

  • Symposium

    artist’s book, experimental text in Finnish, English and Swedish

    2010

  • Vad de andra visste

    under the pseudonym Anna-Maria Ytterbom

    Oei editör, 2010

  • Whore

    experimental one word novel or five hundred art objects

    2011

  • Catalogue Katalog

    art production 1997-2010

    with added visual poems by the artist/author and an essay by Kristofer Folkhammar

    2011

  • Darger reviderad

    co-operation with Jonas Örtemark

    Drucksache, 2011

  • Väggmembranet

    artist’s book

    2012

  • Domningskanten

    Malmö: Pequod press, 2012

  • Tjuvklyftan

    roman

    Stockholm: Bonnier, 2013

  • Drömmare

    activity book

    co-operation with Malmö Konsthall

    Malmö: Malmö Konsthall, 2013

  • Asami kannon song

    dikter, dramatik och irrationella undersökningar

    Malmö: Holmstrand böcker, 2014

  • Asami Kannon: avfallet

    H//o//F (House of Foundation), 2014

  • Ett flygande massbröllop

    Malmö: Holmstrand, 2014

  • Städer som inte är städer

    roman

    Stockholm: Bonnier, 2015

  • Afrikaneserna

    Malmö: Pequod press, 2014

  • Ett rum på tredje våningen

    co-operation with Bo Cavefors

    Malmö: Holmstrand böcker, 2015

  • Community

    Malmö: Holmstrand böcker, 2015

  • Sista dagen

    Stockholm: Bonnier, 2016

  • Recept

    Chateaux, 2017

  • Förkylningen

    novel

    Malmö: Pequod press, 2017

  • Avstå från tragedierna

    poetry

    Trombone, 2017

  • Instruktioner

    Förlaget Anti, 2018

  • Albùm

    selected poems

    translated to Spanish by Petronella Zetterlund, Carlos Maldonado

    Mexico: two editions, 2018

  • ACAB!

    e-book

    Modernista, 2018

  • Kreatur och tusenskönor

    pdf-book

    Fame Factory, 2019

Awards
  • 2018 Mare Kandre Prize

Links
  • Website of Leif Holmstrand

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