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Anna Aguilar-Amat

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  • 2 Petrolier i Teatre | Translations: en
  • 3 Formalitats | Translations: en
  • 4 Relativitat | Translations: en
  • 5 L'avet | Translations: ende
  • 6 Desbordament | Translations: en
  • 7 Plantilles | Translations: en
  • 8 Entomologia i cinema | Translations: en
  • 9 Orografia aèria | Translations: esende
Language: catalan
Translations: english (Knowledge of others), german (Erkennen)
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Que els altres són com tu, de tots els pensaments cruels,
és el que mulla més. Els pren allò que és seu:
la forma dels cabells, el color dels teixits,
el traçat de les lletres, difuminat com molsa.
Si penso que ets com jo, deixo de veure
que el riure és un desordre d'aire arremolinat al cove
de la gola. Que les tardes es poden quedar quietes,
en un instant etern, com colibrís que beuen.
Quan penses que ets com jo, salto de branca
en branca fugint del teu foc moll que em llepa.
Qui ha bufat massa fort?  Qui ha dit
que sap com som, que el temps cal mastegar-lo
cinquanta-cinc vegades?

© Anna Aguilar-Amat
From: Petrolier
València: Denes, 2003
Audio production: Institut Ramon Llull
Categories: identity (personal), time

Translations:

Language: english

Knowledge of others

Of all cruel thoughts, the one of others being like you
is the most drenching. It takes from them what is theirs:
the way their hair grows, the colour of their garments,
the shape of their handwriting, all blurred, like moss.
If I think that you are like me, I no longer see
that laughter is a tangle of air whirled in the rattle-bag
of your throat. Or that afternoons can be still,
for an endless instant, like humming-birds drinking.
When you think you are like me, I leap from branch
to branch to escape from your wet, licking fire.
Who is it has blown too hard? Who has said
they know what we’re like, or that time has to be chewed,
every mouthful, fifty-five times?

Translated into English by Anna Crowe
Language: german

Erkennen

Dass die anderen so sind wie du, ist von allen grausamen Gedanken
der eindringlichste. Er nimmt ihnen das, was ihnen eigen ist:
die Form der Haare, die Farbe der Stoffe,
den Schwung der Handschrift, verschwommen wie Moss.
Wenn ich denke, dass du bist wie ich, dann habe ich keine Augen mehr dafür,
dass das Lachen ein Durcheinander aus Luft ist, herumgewirbelt im Korb
des Rachens. Dass die Nachmittage still stehen können,
einen ewigen Augenblick lang, wie Kolibris, die trinken.
Wenn du denkst, dass du bist wie ich, springe ich von Ast
zu Ast auf der Flucht vor deinem feuchten Feuer, das mich leckt.
Wer hat zu stark geblasen? Wer hat gesagt,
dass er weiß, wie wir sind, dass man die Zeit durchkauen muss
ganze fünfundfünfzig Mal?

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Anna Aguilar-Amat

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* 31.01.1962, Barcelona, Spain
lives in: Barcelona, Spain

Anna Aguilar-Amatwas born in Barcelona in 1962. She has a PhD from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona where she now teaches at the Translation Faculty She published several specialised texts in that field and other subjects as minorized languages, knowledge engineering, divergent thinking, etc.

She came to the foreground of Catalan poetry when she was awarded three of the most prestigious literary prizes for her books Trànsit entre dos vols (Transit between two flights, 2001), Música i escorbut (Music and Scurvy 2002), and Petrolier, (Oil Tanker, 2003). She has also published the book of poems Coses Petites (Little things), and a book of essays El plaer de la lectura (The pleasure of reading, 2004).Her fourth poetry book is Jocs de l’oca (The Goose Games, 2006). 

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Her poetic work is present in several anthologies of Catalan poets and she has been translated into Spanish, English, French, Italian, Sardinian, Macedonian, Finnish, Arabian, Turkish, Greek, German and Slovenian. She was included in the Anthology New European Poets by Wayne Miller & Kevin Prufer, Minnesota 2008.

Since 2003 she became president of QUARKpoesia, a non-profit group affiliated to the Translation Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the cultural organization 'Cultura en Viu', whose main purpose is the promotion of lesser-known poets and writers in less translated languages, as well as the exchange of ideas and poetic works. In 2006 she founded the poetry publishers Refraccions (Refractions) with the aim of publishing bilingual or trilingual poetry books.

Publications
  • Coses Petites

    with Francesc Parcerisas, designs by Miquel Plana

  • Trànsit entre dos vols

    Barcelona: Proa, 2001

  • Música i escorbut

    Barcelona: Edicions 62, 2002

  • Petrolier

    València: Denes, 2003

  • El plaer de la lectura

    Essays

    Barcelona: Síntesis, 2004

  • Jocs de l’oca

    Barcelona: UAB, 2006

  • Europe is a woman

    On european woman poetry

    Barcelona: UAB - Refraccions, 2007

  • Quantiques

    young women voices at the Catalan scene

    Barcelona: UAB - Refraccions, 2008

  • Càrrega de color

    Barcelona: Meteora, 2011

  • Coses Petites [Little things]

    with Francesc Parcerisas, translated by Elizabeth Hildreth

    Chicago: Flamenco Arts Center, 2012

  • Almas

    Barcelona: In-Verso, 2016

Awards
  • 2001 Carles Riba award

  • 2002 Jocs Florals of the city of Barcelona

  • 2003 Màrius Torres award

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