Anneke Brassinga

Da capo al fine a prima viste

Language: dutch

Translations: german (Da capo al fine a prima vista)

Da capo al fine a prima viste

Waar is de kus
die ik je vijf jaar geleden heb gegeven? Het einde
was nog niet begonnen of het begin stokte alweer
en met rassere schreden dan weleer naderde
de achterdeur. Sommen klopten. Repeterende

breuken met een vol jaar garantie
op de afrondingen. O verlopen lipzegel, slobber-
kwijl, alles beter dan ten halven lijve
in het ebben staan te splijten.
Nergens nimmer ook maar iets ooit aan zien komen:

er ligt weer iemand te verdwijnen. In levenslusts
stofstorm plakt de zanderigheid van zand
aan alle dingen. Daarom gaan wij (eenmaal
klaar met badineren) de rotonde op om beiden
daar in stof te bijten, uit te beelden

de geplette staartvretende slang van tempo,
melk en bloed te motoriseren, te ranselen de vellen
van de broek, jouw donzig vlees te overstelpen met
klimopomarmingen en biedermeierkrullenwatervallen.
Al waren we slaven, kopstandige

ontstemd musicerende molecuulgalaxieën, ons rest
alle reden om te galmen:
´Hoe lieflijk de aarde, een weergaloos strijdpark,
het leven bloedt er
als een rund in een weide vol bloemen.´

Anneke Brassinga

photo © Dirk Skiba

* 20.08.1948, Schaarsbergen, Netherlands
lives in: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Anneke Brassinga, born in 1948, is a translator, prose author, essayist and poet and is reckoned to be the language magician of Dutch literature. Her Collected Poems, entitled Passwords, has been described as a “reservation for endangered language species”, in which Brassinga leads the readers to various places and lets them taste the often unique words associated with them. Nonetheless, Brassinga’s language games are not games for the sake of playing, but are for her the route to ecstasy – the poet has a creative power and Brassinga draws on it.
Her debut book was Aurora in 1987, and since then she has published ten more collections of verse as well as books of essays and various oublications in magazines and journals, letters and dairy entries. Brassinga has received various prizes in the Netherlands for her extensive range of work. Her book of poems Landgoed was awarded the Herman Gorter Prize (1990) andVerschiet earned her the VSB Poesiepreis (2002). Her life’s work was honoured in 2008 with the Constantijn Huygenspreis and this year with the P.C. Hooftpreis, the Nobel Prize of the Netherlands. Last year she was a guest of the Berlin Artists’ Programme of the DAAD.

photo © Mike Schmidt

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