Kinga Fabó

Az Operabált megnyitom

Language: hungarian

Translations: english (Opening the Opera Ball)

Az Operabált megnyitom

Mennyi nő!
Hány lejárt idő.
Hány bérelt báj, szerteszét.

Még mielőtt – a hajcihő -
áll a bál: révbe ér.
Lendülne ki. Törne át

– a holtponton – révbe ér: összezár.
Hány férfi!
Mennyi esély, mi

ketyeg; időzített vágy.
Korbács rostál: ki mit kóstál.
Mennyi bérelt báj.

Vágyak fókusza! Megannyi
frusztrált pillantást vonz oda.
Álmaim szőke szponzora.

Hídként – át – a pillantáson.
Lehet barna is, csak – lásson.
(Álmaim szőke szponzora.)

Én is vagyok! Furcsa pár.
Vezényszóra lép.
Báli cipőm sokat ér.

Báli cipőm lestrapál,
vezényszóra lép.
Megtorpan, vissza-

hőkölök:
fizetős a hely.
Hogyan járjak el.

Mostanában nem öltem meg senkit.
Volna okom?
Az Operabált megnyitom.

Kinga Fabó

photo © private

* 01.11.1953, Mezőtúr, Hungary
† 04.03.2021, Budapest, Hungary

Kinga Fabó was a Hungarian poet. She has pubslished eight poetry collection, among them a bilingual Indonesian-English poetry collection Racun/Poison which was published in 2015 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Fabó’s poetry has appeared in various international literary journals and poetry magazines including Osiris, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Screech Owl, The Original Van Gogh’s Ear, Numéro Cinq, Deep Water Literary Journal, Fixpoetry and elsewhere as well as in anthologies like The Significant Anthology, Women in War, The Colours of Refuge, Poetry Against Racism, World Poetry Yearbook 2015, and others.

A selection of poems have been translated into English by George Szirtes and appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation with an introduction by Szirtes.

Some of her individual poems have been translated into 17 languages altogether: Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, English, Esperanto, French, Galego, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Tamil.

One of her poems (The Ears) has among others six different Indonesian translations by six different authors.

Earlier in her career Fabó was also a linguist dealing with theoretical issues, like logics or the philosophy of language and an essayist, too, interested in issues from the periphery, from the verge. She has also written an essay on Sylvia Plath.

Fabó has been a Poetry Editor at Diaphanous, an American e-journal for literary and visual art that was launched on in 2017.

In everything she’s done, Fabó has always been between the verges, on the verge, in the extreme.

She died in Budapest, Hungary in March 2021.

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