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Ana Luisa Amaral

EM SIMULACRO: OS ANJOS

  • 1 O EXCESSO MAIS PERFEITO | Translations: deen
  • 2 UM POUCO SÓ DE GOYA: CARTA A MINHA FILHA: | Translations: enen
  • 3 UMA BOTÂNICA DA PAZ: VISITAÇÃO | Translations: deenen
  • 4 LUGARES COMUNS | Translations: deen
  • 5 UNIFICAÇÕES
  • 6 A GÉNESE DO AMOR
  • 7 PASSADO | Translations: deen
  • 8 EM SIMULACRO: OS ANJOS | Translations: de
  • 9 QUE ESCADA DE JACOB? | Translations: deen
  • 10 TOPOGRAFIAS EM QUASE DICIONÁRIO | Translations: enen
Language: portuguese
Translations: german (Trugbild: Engel)
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EM SIMULACRO: OS ANJOS

Mas como navegar em tempo branco
ou rio de uma só margem?
Não há água possível de apagar o sol,
nem voz capaz de amedrontar
esses anjos maiores

Mas não são eles
que desejo aqui,
não me cantam os anjos de Rilke,
nem os anjos de Klee,
só o resto talvez encantará

Nesse resto te quis,
despojo de anjo, asas cortadas,
rasgado em branco, o branco
transformado em roxo cor de morte,
como o amor e a morte
aí vacilam

Noutra língua recuso-me a falar,
nesta tela recuso-me a pintar,
nestas cores —
nunca esboçando um anjo
pintado a inocência

Na iminência de te ter amado,
sonho-te: asas cortadas,
tudo o mais rasgado
nas dobras do mais alto do poema,
nas dobras da pintura,
fotografia a preto e branco

Rasgar-te-ei a branco,
serás moldura horizontal,
desagregada.
Braços, asas abertas,
algum dourado em torno,
mas gesto e desviada: a cor

Em torno da mudança tornarei,
sem dizer “meu amor”,
que a língua em que falei
vivia em melodia,
mas não esta —

E sob a minha pele,
aí estiveste, anjo desagregado
e sem guitarra,
varrendo lentamente o céu das
outras mãos

Sem corpo agora,
sem asas,
sem o conforto que a poesia traz,
mesmo que na memória,
ou no sonhado, serás:
um anjo condenado ao paraíso,
sem licença nem bênção do inferno

A ti amei:
imagem,
simulacro nem de mim

O resto:
um intervalo —

© Ana Luisa Amaral
From: Entre Dois Rios e Outras Noites
Campo das Letras, 2007
Audio production: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin 2008

Translations:

Language: german

Trugbild: Engel

Wie aber segeln bei nichtigem Wetter
oder auf Flüssen mit nur einem Ufer?
Kein Wasser reicht aus, die Sonne zu löschen
und auch keine Stimme ist fähig
jene höheren Engel in Angst zu versetzen.

Aber diese sind es nicht
die ich hier wünsche
die Engel von Rilke sind für mich stumm
ebenso wie die Engel von Klee
nur der Rest lässt mich entzückt verstummen.

In diesem Rest wollte ich dich
Beute eines Engels, gestutzte Flügel
in weißen Rissen, das Weiß
in Purpur verwandelt, Todesfarbe,
wie die Liebe und der Tod
da trudeln

In einer anderen Sprache weigere ich mich zu sprechen
auf dieser Leinwand weigere ich mich zu malen,
in diesen Farben –
niemals einen Engel versuchend
niemals in Unschuld gemalt.  

Da ich daran grenze, dich geliebt zu haben
träume ich dich: gestutzte Flügel
und der ganze Rest zerrissen
in den Falten des Höheren im Gedicht
in den Falten der Malerei,
schwarz-weiß-Fotografie.

Ich werde dich in Weiß zerreißen,
du wirst horizontaler Rahmen sein
in Stücken.
Arme, ausgebreitete Flügel
ringsum leichte Vergoldungen,
nur Geste, und die Farbe: verblichen.

Rings um den Wandel kehre ich zurück,
ohne zu sagen "mein Geliebter",
denn die Sprache, in der ich sprach,
lebte von Melodie
doch diese nicht —

Und unter meiner Haut
da warst du, zerstückelter Engel
ohne Gitarre,
und fegtest langsam den Himmel der
anderen Hände.

Jetzt ohne Körper,
ohne Flügel,
ohne den Trost der Poesie,
sogar in der Erinnerung
im Geträumten sollst du sein:
von Rilke oder Klee
ein Engel, verdammt ins Paradies
ohne Lizenz oder Segen der Hölle

Dich habe ich geliebt:
Bild
Trugbild nicht einmal von mir

Der Rest:
ein Intervall —

Deutsche Fassung von Monika Rinck.
Die Übersetzung entstand im Rahmen des Übersetzungsworkshops
VERSschmuggel des Poesiefestivals Berlin 2008
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Ana Luisa Amaral

photo © gezett.de
* 05.04.1956, Porto, Portugal
† 05.08.2022, Porto, Portugal

Ana Luísa Amaral was born in Porto, Portugal in 1956. A poet, professor of English and American literature at the University of Porto, pioneer in gender studies, she has published numerous volumes of poetry and children's books, and emerged as a Dickinson translator. She has received numerous awards for her lyrical work, which has been translated into several languages.

Ana Luísa Amaral repeatedly confronted phenomena in the literary tradition that she found strange: male-dominated poetry and the sagas of Western culture. Women's themes often clash with images of biblical origin in her poems, or Greek myths are retold.

 photo © gezett.de
Ana Luísa Amaral died on 5 August in her home town of Porto.

Publications
  • Minha Senhora de Quê

    Lisboa: Quetzal, 1990

  • Coisas de Partir

    Lisboa: Gótica, 1993

  • Epopeias

    Coimbra: Fora do Texto, 1994

  • E Muitos os Caminhos

    Porto: Poetas de Letras, 1995

  • Às Vezes o Paraíso

    Lisboa: Quetzal, 1998

  • Gaspar, o Dedo Diferente e Outras Histórias

    Porto: Campo das Letras, 1999

  • Imagens

    Porto: Campo das Letras, 2000

  • A História da Aranha Leopoldina

    Porto: Campo das Letras, 2000

  • Imagias

    Lisboa: Gótica, 2001

  • A arte de ser tigre

    poesia

    Lisboa: Gótica, 2003

  • A Génese do Amor

    poesia

    Porto: Campo das Letras, 2005

  • Poesia Reunida (1990-2005)

    Famalicão: Quási, 2005

  • Entre Dois Rios e Outras Noites

    poesia

    Porto: Campo das Letras, 2007

  • Se Fosse um Intervalo

    poesia

    Lisboa: Dom Quixote, 2009

  • Inversos

    Poesia 1990-2010

    Lisboa: Dom Quixote, 2010

  • Vozes

    poesia

    Lisboa: Dom Quixote, 2011

  • Ara

    (fiction)

    Sextante, 2013

  • Escuro

    poesia

    Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2014

  • E Todavia

    poesia

    Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2015

  • What's in a name

    poesia

    Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2017

  • The Art of Being a Tiger

    Selected Poems

    Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

    Dartmouth, MS: Tagus Press, 2018

  • Ágora

    poesia

    Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2019

  • What's in a Name?

    Poems. Bilingual Edition

    Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

    New York, NY: New Directions, 2019

  • Was ist ein Name?

    üb. von Michael Kegler & Piero Salabe

    München: Hanser Verlag / Edition Lyrik Kabinett, 2021

  • Mundo

    poesia

    Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2022

Awards
  • 2007 Premio de Poesia Giuseppe Acerbi

  • 2007 Prémio Correntes D’Escritas / Casino da Póvoa

  • 2008 Grande Prémio de Poesia

  • 2012 Prize Rómulo de Carvalho/António Gedeão

  • 2014 Prize of Novel of Associação Portuguesa de Escritores

  • 2015 Gold Medal of Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos

  • 2016 Gold Medal of Câmara Municipal do Porto

  • 2018 Premio Internazionale Fondazione Roma: Ritratti di Poesia

  • 2018 Prize for Essay Jacinto do Prado Coelho, from the Portuguese Association of Literary Critics

  • 2020 Guerra Junqueiro Literary Prize

  • 2020 Prémio Livro do Ano de Poesia do Grémio de Librerias de Madrid, com o livro 'What's in a Name'

  • 2020 Prémio Leteo

  • 2021 Prémio Literário Francisco Sá de Miranda, com o livro 'Ágora'

  • 2021 Prémio Virgílio Ferreira, atribuído pela Universidade de Évora

  • 2021 XXX Prémio Rainha Sofia de Poesia Ibero-americana

  • 2022 a Asociación de Escritoras e Escritores en Lingua Galega nomeou Ana Luísa Amaral como Escritora Galega Universa

Links
  • Ana Luísa Amaral @ Poems from the Portuguese

    21st Century Portuguese Poetry translated into English

  • Ana Luísa Amaral @ Poetry International Web

  • Ana Luísa Amaral @ Wikipedia

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