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Sylvia Geist

Jerichokaleidoskop

  • 1 Jerichokaleidoskop | Translations: enfr
  • 2 Besuch in Leiden | Translations: arenfrsk
  • 3 Böse Gewichte | Translations: arenfr
  • 4 Moabiter Nachlass | Translations: fr
  • 5 Lyssa | Translations: arfrsk
  • 6 Carbon | Translations: en
  • 7 Chlor | Translations: en
  • 8 Kalium | Translations: en
  • 9 Silber | Translations: sk
  • 10 Tantal | Translations: sk
  • 11 Spin | Translations: ar
  • 12 Kolk | Translations: fr
  • 13 Manara | Translations: arfr
  • 14 Iridium | Translations: aren
  • 15 Germanium
Language: german
Translations: english (Jericho Kaleidoscope), french (Jéricho - kaléidoscope)
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Jerichokaleidoskop

Nicht die Spur Verdunkelung, Kreuzschnäbel, zwitschernd
von Spannung, diesseits Giraffen in langsamen Bauen
hungrig auf Sand und die Fundamente für morgen
gerüstet zu sehen, das war der Dreh: alles durchschaubar

und unverständlich. Die Nächte sprachen Pidgin
mit dem Rudel, zu sagen, das Gelichter jagte
einem unter die Lider weiße kreisende Stunden
klänge nach etwas, das uns nicht erreichte.
 
Schon Personal der Träume unserer Hälfte
dieses steinern dämmernden Hirns, spielten wir
Insulaner, die das Festland wunderte, das Fließen
von Verkehr, Verschollene. Wiederholungen

Holungen. Was von drüben aus: eine Gefahr
die uns vor einer anderen retten sollte, und durch welche
Gläser, übertrieb man wie wir mit unseren Scherben?
Die schwärzten wir der halben Sache zum Trotz, die Sonne
 
verschwand nicht ganz, sie hinterließ uns auch
die Fliederfarbe nicht. Woran ich mich erinnere
ist unser Warten: zusammengedrängt im Gang
vor dem Ereignis.

© Sylvia Geist
From: unveröffentlicht
Audio production: 2006, M.Mechner / Literaturwerkstatt Berlin

Translations:

Language: english

Jericho Kaleidoscope

No trace of the darkening, but of crossbills twittering
tense, this side of the giraffes, their slow constructions
hungering the sands, so as to view the shoring up of
tomorrow's foundations, a sleight of hand rendering all things

transparent, with no comprehension. Nights chatter
pidgin to the pack, the rabble in hot pursuit...white
circling hours beneath our eyelids, the clanging of
something that never quite reached us.

We were, by then,  the personnel of dreams within our half
of this stone brain slowly dawning. We played at being
islanders bewildered by the mainland, the flow
of traffic, those presumed lost. The recapulation of things.

Capitulation. And what is that from the other side? A peril
that should have delivered us from someone, and by means
of what glass did things get exagerated as we were with our shards?
We made them black, despite the half we left undone, the sun

not fully disappearing. It nearly bequeathed us
the thicket of lillacs. What I remember
is our waiting, our huddling along the way.

Translated by Gordon Walmsley
Language: french

Jéricho - kaléidoscope

Pas de trace d'occultation, pointes en beccroisés,

à gazouiller sous tension,  de ce côté-ci lents mouvements

bâtisseurs de girafes, avides de sable, et voir préparées les fondations

pour le lendemain, le truc c'était ça: le tout perceptible


et incompréhensible. Les nuits parlaient le pidgin

porté par les hordes, à dire que les esprits malins vous

chassaient sous les paupières, des heures tournoyaient blanches

comme si ça avait un effet qui ne nous atteignait pas.


Déjà personnel des rêves de notre moitié,

celle d'un cerveau pris d'une torpeur de pierre,

nous jouions les insulaires, que la terre ferme étonnait,

l'écoulement du trafic, des absents. Reprise


prise. Ce qu'il en était de l'autre côté: un danger censé

nous sauver d'un autre, et par quels verres,

exagérait-on comme nous avec nos débris?

Nous les noircissions en dépit de faire les chose à moitié, le soleil


ne disparaissait pas complètement, il ne nous laissait pas

non plus la couleur lilas. Ce dont je me souviens,

c'est de notre attente: entassés dans le cours

de ce qui allait se produire.

Traduit par Joël Vincent
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Sylvia Geist

photo © gezett.de
* 06.08.1963, Berlin, Germany
lives in: Flieth, Germany

Sylvia Geist, born in Berlin in 1963, is a poetess and artist. From 1982 to 1989 she studied chemistry, German studies and art history at the Technical University of Berlin. Today she lives in the Uckermark and in Vancouver.

Geist worked as a reviewer and editorial journalist, f. e. for Financial Times Germany, and as an editor for middle east European literature. She writes prose (fiction and essay) and poetry, and translates also from English; poems by Peter Gizzi, Chirikure Chirikure and contemporary poetry from Southafrica i.e. has been published in her translation.

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Short prose and poems of Geist have been translated into more various languages, f. e. into French, Polish, Belarussian, Slovakian, Arabic and English. The poetess has been awarded a number of prizes for her poetry, among others the Literaturförderpreis des Landes Niedersachsen (1998), the poetry award Meran (2002), the Adolf-Mejstrik-Ehrengabe of the German Schiller Foundation (2008) and the Ver.di Literaurpreis Berlin-Brandenburg (2014).

Publications
  • Morgen blaues Tier

    Gedichte

    Lüneburg : zu Klampen, 1997

  • Nichteuklidische Reise

    Gedichte

    Berlin: BONsai typART, 1998

  • Die Umgebung des Auges

    Gedichte

    Dornbirn : Druck Werk Dornbirn, 2004

  • Mitlesebuch Nr. 67

    Gedichte

    Berlin: Aphaia-Verlag, 2006

  • Der Pfau

    Novelle

    Wien: Luftschacht Verlag, 2008

  • Vor dem Wetter

    Gedichte

    Wien: Luftschacht Verlag, 2009

  • Letzte Freunde

    Erzaehlungen

    Wien: Luftschacht Verlag, 2011

  • Gordisches Paradies

    Gedichte

    Berlin: Hanser Berlin, 2014

  • Fremde Felle

    Gedichte

    Berlin: Hanser Berlin, 2018

Awards
  • 1998 Niedersächsischer Förderpreis

  • 2002 Meraner Lyrikpreis

  • 2006 Stipendiatin im Künstlerhaus Edenkoben

  • 2006 Jahresstipendium des Landes Niedersachsen

  • 2008 Adolf-Mejstrik-Ehrengabe für Lyrik der Deutschen Schillerstiftung

  • 2014 Ver.di Literaturpreis Berlin-Brandenburg

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  • Homepage of Sylvia Geist

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