Raša Livada (Раша Ливада)

IZGNANICI

Language: serbian

Translations: german (DIE VERBANNTEN)

IZGNANICI

Zato što su tolike pesme ispevali
Otcepili ih sa njihove zemlje
Ko nokat-od-mesa

Pala je velika kiša
Dok su pekli čerpić i jariće
To nije bila velika kiša
To je bio veliki bol

Jedan vek istrgnuo je sablju
Iz ćelavih korica Azije
I poterao ih
Da po severu jedni-drugima
Kopaju rake i čokote

I rekoše ljuti i razljuđeni
Glad-nam-se-piše

I posuše-se-pepelom manastira
Po glavi

I uzeše nadu za proroka
Glas svoj za svetlo
I drum-pod-noge

Izgnanici Izgnanici

Ko će jesti vaša jela
Ko čitati vaše knjige
Ko prati vaše mrtvace

Preveslaše Dunav i nađoše braću
I sazidaše viosoke čardake
Da preko vode gledaju u svoju zemlju
Ko bolesnici što gledaju u bolesnike
Krišom
Preko nahtkasne

A noću im oči zažagre kao oluja
I počinju (Ono, čime Dunav
Blagosilja svakog ko ga pređe.)
Da se u detalj sećaju
I čega-nije-bilo

A ja kažem

Ti, koji pevaš, ako si od tog soja:
Pazi, da ne dopevaš.

Raša Livada

Раша Ливада

photo © Mario Leone Bralic

* 13.04.1948, Subotica, Serbia
† 06.11.2007, Beograd, Serbia

Raša Livada was born in Subotica in 1948. He wrote only three collections of poems during his lifetime, but they determined the development of Serbian literature at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. In 1985, he founded the Literary Society "Pismo" and started a magazine of the same name for contemporary world literature. Together with the "Pismo" edition, he founded magazines for Jewish, English, Dutch and Russian literature. Raša Livada was the Editor of the famous Anthology of World Poetry, published by Prosveta in 1983. In the early nineties, at the time of the collapse of Yugoslavia, he was the vice president of the Serbian PEN Center and the first president of the Committee for the Protection of Artistic Freedom. He died in Belgrade on November 6th, 2007.

photo © Mario Leone Bralic

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