Paul Bogaert

CIRCULAIRE SYSTEMEN – NR. 7

Language: dutch

Translations: english (CIRCULAR SYSTEMS - NR. 7), french (SYSTÈMES CIRCULAIRES - NR. 7), german (ZIRKULARE SYSTEME - NR. 7), slovenian (Krožni sistemi št. 7)

CIRCULAIRE SYSTEMEN – NR. 7

Het is de wanklank uit de hijger zelf
die hem/haar zo hijgen doet. De onderlip
krult naar wat een hersenkwab
vol echo’s in gevangenschap dicteert.
Men hijgt, pauzeert en hijgt
in een oorzakelijk verband. Niemand
die er tijdens het hijgen last van heeft.
Later verschijnen dieren:
de angsthaas in het reuzenrad,
de kermispony die ’s nachts alles herbeleeft.

Translations:

Language: english

CIRCULAR SYSTEMS - NR. 7

It’s the jerky wheeze from the one who pants
makes him/her pant like that. The lower lip
curls to what a cerebral lobe
full of echoes in captivity dictates.
One pants, pauses and pants
in a causal connection. Nobody at all
is bothered by it while the panting lasts.
Later animals appear:
the scaredy-cat in the big wheel,
the fairground pony that relives everything at night.

Language: french

SYSTÈMES CIRCULAIRES - NR. 7

C'est sa propre anhélence qui le/la fait
haleter ainsi. La lèvre inférieure
se plisse selon ce que dicte un lobe cérébral
rempli d'échos en détention.
On halète, marque une pause, halète
dans un rapport de cause à effet. Personne
n'en est incommodé pendant le halètement.
Plus tard, des animaux apparaissent :
le poltron dans la grande roue,
le poney de la kermesse qui, la nuit, revit tout.

Language: german

ZIRKULARE SYSTEME - NR. 7

Es ist der Mißklang des eigenen Keuchens,
was den/die Keucher/in so keuchen läßt. Die Unterlippe
kräuselt sich, wie es eine Hirnhälfte
voll Echos in Gefangenschaft diktiert.
Man keucht, pausiert und keucht
in ursächlichem Zusammenhang. Niemanden
stört das während des Keuchens.
Später erscheinen Tiere:
der Angsthase auf dem Riesenrad,
das Kirmespony, das nachts alles noch einmal durchlebt.

Language: slovenian

Krožni sistemi št. 7

Napačen zven sopihajočega
mu pobere sapo. Spodnja ustnica
se zvije, kot ukažejo
možgani, ujeti v odmeve.
Sopenje, odmor, spet in spet
v vzročni povezavi. Nikogar to
ne bremeni, kadar sopiha.
Kasneje so živali:
zajec v ogromnem vrtiljaku,
konjiček, ki ponoči vse podoživlja.

Paul Bogaert

photo © Tineke de Lange

* 03.05.1968, Brussels, Belgium
lives in: Leuven, Belgium

Paul Bogaert’s debut collection of poems, WELCOME HYGIENE, was published in 1996. It features verses full of bizarre logic and a carefully measured mixture of styles and linguistic registers. His restless first person narrator is plagued with over-awareness; the way he analyses himself and others creates an alienating effect.

The same rousing mental and physical sensations surface in his second volume Circulaire systemen (Circular systems, 2002). In this collection Bogaert examines his fascination for all things that rotate. A closed, circular system generates security, but also discomfort. In an aloof, pseudo-scientific tone he creates poetic language machines, in which the ordinary is contrasted with the systematic.

photo © Tineke de Lange

In 2006, his third collection of poems, AUB (PLEASE), was published. In 2008 Paul Bogaert wrote the National Poetry Day essay Verwondingen (Injuries), in which he tries to explain the secrets of poetry by analysing the Serbian contribution (2007) to the Eurovision Song Contest.

de Slalom soft (the Slalom soft, 2009) is a long, sparkling, narrative poem, featuring a lifeguard in a subtropical swimming paradise, personal coaches, drowned bodies and office workers.

In just a few years and with only four collections of poems, Bogaert has proved himself one of the most striking voices among young Flemish poets.” (Tom Van de Voorde)

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