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Tishani Doshi

Contract

  • 1 Contract | Translations: deithr
  • 2 Walking Around | Translations: hr
  • 3 Love Poem | Translations: iteshr
  • 4 Find the Poets | Translations: ithr
  • 5 Girls are coming out of the Woods | Translations: it
  • 6 The Art of Losing | Translations: ithr
Language: english
Translations: german (Vertrag), italian (Contratto), croatian (Ugovor)
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Contract

Dear Reader,
I agree to turn my skin inside out,
to reinvent every lost word, to burnish,
to steal, to do what I must
in order to singe your lungs.
I will forgo happiness
stab myself repeatedly,
and lower my head into countless ovens.
I will fade backwards into the future
and tell you what I see.
If it is bleak, I will lie
so that you may live
seized with wonder.
If it is miraculous I will
send messages in your dreams,
and they will flicker
as a silvered cottage in the woods,    
choked with vines of moonflower.
Don’t kill me, Reader.
This neck has been working for years
to harden itself against the axe.
This body, meagre as it is,
has lost so many limbs to wars, so many
eyes and hearts to romance. But love me,
and I will follow you everywhere –
to the dusty corners of childhood,
to every downfall and resurrection.
Till your skin becomes my skin.
Let us be twins, our blood
thumping after each other
like thunder and lightning.
And when you put your soft head
down to rest, dear Reader,
I promise to always be there,
humming in the dungeons
of your auditory canals—
an immortal mosquito,
hastening you towards fury,
towards incandescence.

© Tishani Doshi
Audio production: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin 2014
Categories: spoken word / Rap, literature & reading, writing (poetry)

Translations:

Language: german

Vertrag

Lieber Leser,
Ich willige ein meine Haut umzustülpen,
jedes verlorene Wort erneut zu erfinden, zu schleifen,
zu stehlen, zu tun was auch immer getan werden muss
um deine Lungenflügel zu versengen.
Ich werde auf Glück verzichten
Mich wieder und wieder erstechen
und meinen Kopf in zahllose Öfen senken.
Ich werde rückwärts in die Zukunft hin verblassen
und dir erzählen was ich sehe.
Sollte es trostlos sein, werde ich lügen
Auf dass die Wunder
dein Leben im Griff halten
Ist es fantastisch sende ich
Botschaften in deine Träume
die aufglühen werden (/und sie werden aufglühen)
als silberner Bretterverschlag in den Wäldern (/als silberne Hütte im Wald)
von Mondblumenreben (/Stechabpfelreben) erstickt,
lass mich am Leben, Leser.
Dieser Hals hat sich in jahrelanger Arbeit
gestählt um dieser Axt zu widerstehen
Und dieser Körper, mager wie er sei (/schmal wie er ist)
hat so viele Glieder an Kriege verloren, so viele
Augen und Herzen der Romantik geopfert, aber liebe mich,
und ich folge dir überall hin -
in die staubigen Ecken der Kindheit
zu jedem Niedergang und Aufstieg,
bis deine Haut zu meiner wird,
lass uns Zwillinge sein, lass unser Blut
im Gleichtakt aufeinander folgen
wie Donner und Blitz.
Und wenn du deinen weichen Kopf
zur Ruhe legst, geliebter Leser,
Verspreche ich dir immer da zu sein,
durch das Verlies
deiner Gehörgänge zu summen
als unsterblicher Moskito,
der dich der Raserei zutreibt,
dem Aufglühen,
der Wut.
(/der dich in Richtung Wildheit treibt,
in Richtung Glut.)

Ins Deutsche übersetzt von Josefine Bergholm
Language: italian

Contratto

Caro Lettore,
Acconsento a rivoltarmi la pelle.
A reinventare ogni parola persa, a lucidare,
rubare, fare quel che devo
per riuscire a bruciarti i polmoni.
Rinuncerò alla felicità,
mi pugnalerò ripetutamente,
e infilerò la testa dentro a innumerevoli forni.
Sbiadirò all’indietro nel futuro
e ti dirò quello che vedo.
Se è oscuro, mentirò
così che tu possa vivere
rapito dalla meraviglia.
Se è miracoloso, ti manderò
messaggi nei tuoi sogni,
e scintilleranno
come una casetta d’argento nel bosco
soffocata dai rampicanti del cereo notturno.
Non mi uccidere, Lettore.
Questo collo ha lavorato per anni
per indurirsi contro la scure.
Questo corpo, per quanto inadeguato,
ha perso così tante membra nelle guerre, così tanti
occhi e cuori nelle storie d’amore. Ma amami,
e ti seguirò ovunque -
fino agli angoli polverosi dell’infanzia,
fino a ogni crollo e resurrezione.
Fino a che la tua pelle diventerà la mia pelle.
Fa che diventiamo gemelli, il nostro sangue
palpitante uno con l’altro
come tuono e lampo.
E quando metti la tua morbida testa
a dormire, caro Lettore,
prometto che sarò sempre lì,
a mormorare nelle segrete
dei tuoi canali auditivi -
una zanzara immortale,
che ti precipita verso la furia,
verso l’incandescenza.

Traduzione: Carlo Pizzati
Language: croatian

Ugovor

Dragi čitatelju,
pristajem izokrenuti sasvim moju kožu,
obnoviti svaku izgubljenu riječ, ispolirati,
ukrasti, učiniti sve što moram
kako bi užgala tvoja pluća.
Zapostavit ću svaku sreću
ubadati se nožem uvijek iznova,
i položiti glavu u beskonačne pećnice.
Iščeznuti unatrag u budućnost
i reći vam što vidim.
Ako je pustopoljina, ja ću leći
da vi možete živjeti
obuzeti čudom.
Ako je čudesno
slat ću vam poruke kroz snove,
i oni će zatreptati
poput posrebrene kolibe u šumama,
ugušeni lozom mjesečeva cvijeta.
Nemoj me ubiti, čitatelju.
Ovaj je vrat radio godinama
da postane otporniji na sjekiru.
Nemoj me ubiti, čitatelju.
Ovo tijelo, mršavo kakvo jest,
izgubilo je puno udova u ratovima,
toliko očiju i srdaca u romansama.
Ali voli me i slijedit ću te svuda -
prašnjavim kutovima djetinjstva,
svakom padu i uskrsnuću.
Dok tvoja koža ne postane moja koža.
Nek budemo blizanci, naša krv
da stupa jedna preko druge
poput grmljavine i blijeska.
A kada spustiš svoju meku glavu
natrag na jastuk, dragi čitatelju,
obećajem ti da ću uvijek biti tamo,
pjevušeći u tamnicama
tvojih slušnih kanala -
kao besmrtni komarac,
požurujući te prema gnjevu,
prema usijanju.

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Tishani Doshi

photo © Denzil Sequiera
* 09.12.1975, Madras, India
lives in: Madras, India

Tishani Doshi (born 1975, Madras, India) is an Indian poet, journalist and dancer. The daughter of a Welsh mother and a Gujarati father, she won the Eric Gregory Prize in 2001. With her first volume of poetry, “Countries of the Body” she won the 2006 Forward Poetry Prize. In 2006 she took part in the Hay Festival, and in 2007 at the Hay Festival in Cartagena. Her first novel “The Pleasure Seekers” came out in 2010 through Bloomsbury, and made the 2011 Orange Prize Longlist, as well as the shortlist for The Hindu Best Fiction Award. In her poems, Tishani Doshi deals critically with issues of being a woman, aging, sexuality, loss and violence.

 photo © Denzil Sequiera
Publications
  • The Pleasure Seekers

    Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010

  • Everything begins elsewhere

    Copper Canyon, 2013

Awards
  • 2001 Eric Gregory Preis

  • 2006 Forward Poetry Preis

Links
  • Tishani Doshi's website

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