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Antoine Cassar

L-Ajkla

  • 1 Merħba
  • 2 C’est la vie | Translations: dadeenesfrit
  • 3 Tak, jako pták | Translations: deen
  • 4 A Dunánál | Translations: dadeenit
  • 5 Hüzün | Translations: deenfrit
  • 6 Gonbidapena
  • 7 Ciao amore ciao | Translations: dadeenesfrit
  • 8 Ċomb | Translations: enes
  • 9 L-Ajkla | Translations: enit
  • 10 Bejn | Translations: en
Language: maltese
Translations: english (The Eagle), italian (L’Aquila)
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L-Ajkla
(L’Aquila, fejn għext fix-xitwa tal-1999/2000)

U f’nofs ta’ lejl
qabad u theżżeż kull m’hemm:
il-belt, id-dlam, id-demm.

Bħal ġugarell
fil-ponn ta’ ltim inkurlat
inħasad b’damdima l-munġbell
u d-djar tal-pupi ġġarrfu
taħt balzmu tat-trab.

Il-ġilda tad-dinja ċediet,
l-irkoppa tal-Italja ntwiet,
il-mappa kanġiet
ilwien u suriet,
l-art saret baħar inkwiet.

Hawnhekk il-kamra kollha kotba
ta’ Via D’Annunzio,
hawnhekk il-lejla bajda qotna
tal-bewsa twila
f’Via dei Torreggiani,
hawnhekk is-suq imwarrad
fila fuq fila
ta’ Piazza Duomo,
hawnhekk il-kummerċ immarrad
fil-musrana mħarrka
tal-Corso –
tifkiriet ta’ tifkiriet
imfarrka.

F’temp ta’ tektika mtertqa
dak li bnejna l-bnedmin bizzilla
jeħfifilna bil-qilla,
jikfisna, jiknisna,
u jerġa’ jgħallimna
li aħna m’aħna xejn ħlief leħħa ta’ berqa,
għabra ta’ stilla,
traba daqs nitfa.

Taħt l-arloġġ imxaqqaq
hemm ajkla twaqwaq –
forsi għax intebhet fis
li twieldet mingħajr ġwinħajn,
forsi għax fehmet
li fix-xbiek wesgħin tal-kwiekeb
id-destin tal-ħajja ma jgħammarx,
iżd’aktarx
jgħum, jissajja,
iżaqżaq
magħġun fit-tjun
tal-kaldarun jiċċaqċaq
taħt l-art.

© Antoine Cassar
Audio production: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin 2009

Translations:

Language: english

The Eagle
(L’Aquila, where I lived during the winter of 1999/2000)

And in the middle of a night
all things suddenly trembled:
the city, the darkness, the blood.

Like a toy
in the fist of a furious orphan
the mountain shook with a groan
and the dollhouses crumbled
under a balsam of dust.

The skin of the world gave way,
the knee of Italy folded,
the map changed
colours and shapes,
the land became a restless sea.

Here the room packed with books
of Via D’Annunzio,
here the cotton-white night
of a long kiss
in Via dei Torreggiani,
here the flowering market
row upon row
of Piazza Duomo,
here the sickly commerce
in the jolted intestine
of the Corso –
memories of memories
crumbled.

In the time of a shattered tick
what we men built like lace
fiercely lightens upon us,
eclipses us, sweeps us,
and again teaches us
that we are nothing more than a flash of lightning,
a speck of stardust,
a tiny fleck of earth.


Under the cracked clock
an eagle screeches –
perhaps for she has just realised
that she was born without wings,
perhaps for she has understood
that in the wide netting of the stars
the destiny of life resides not,
but rather
swims, waits,
rumbles
kneaded in the muds
of the creaking cauldron
underground.

Translated from the Maltese by Antoine Cassar.
Language: italian

L’Aquila
(Dove ho vissuto nell’inverno del 1999-2000)

E in mezzo ad una notte
si mise a tremare ogni cosa:
la città, il buio, il sangue.

Come un giocattolo
nel pugno d’un orfano alterato
si scosse d’un gemito la montagna
e le case delle bambole si sbriciolarono
sotto un balsamo di polvere.

La pelle del mondo cedette,
il ginocchio d’Italia si piegò,
la mappa cangiò
colori e forme,
la terra diventò un mare di guai.

Qui la camera tutta libri
di Via D’Annunzio,
qui la notte bianca cotone
del lungo bacio
in Via dei Torreggiani,
qui il mercato fiorito
fila su fila
di Piazza Duomo,
qui il commercio ammalato
nell’intestino contorto
del Corso –
ricordi di ricordi
frantumati.

Nel tempo d’un ticchettio spiegazzato
ciò che costruimmo gli umani a merletto
ci si alleggerisce feroce,
ci eclissa, ci spazza,
e torna ad insegnarci
che noi non siamo altro che un lampo di fulmine,
un granello di stella,
un puntino di polvere.
 
Sotto l’orologio spaccato
c’è un’aquila che strilla –
forse perché s’è accorta d’improvviso
che è nata senza ali,
forse perché ha capito
che nelle ampie reti delle stelle
il destino della vita non risiede,
ma invece
nuota, agguata,
scricchiola
impastato nei fanghi
del calderone sgretolante
sottoterra.

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* 22.06.1978, London, United Kingdom
lives in: Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Antoine Cassar was born on June 22, 1978 in London to Maltese parents. Cassar grew up and studied in England, Malta, Spain, Italy and France.

Beyond his monolingual Maltese poetry, Cassar is the author of Mużajk, a work in progress braiding together the sounds and cadences of different tongues into a fluid rhythm and a coherent stream of thought. Written mainly in a blend of English, French, Italian, Maltese and Spanish (in no particular order), and later sowing in other languages according to the subject, the mużajki or mosaics journey through a variety of themes, among them the pleasure and futility of living, love unrequited or fulfilled, the beauty of the Mediterranean, the absurdity of colonialism and its after-effects, and the at once exhilarating and disorienting feeling of variety itself.

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The first series of Cassar's “mosaics” appeared, together with a number of poems in Maltese, in the anthology Ħbula stirati (Tightropes) in 2007. A handful of mosaics have also appeared in publications in Italy, Spain, Denmark, Kuwait, Australia, and the U.S. Cassar has taken part in a number of European poetry festivals, including the Københavns Poesifestival, the Festival de Poesía de la Mediterrània of Palma de Mallorca, and the Poesiefestival Berlin.

Antoine Cassar lives in Luxembourg, where he works as a translator.

Publications
  • Ħbula stirati

    (Tightropes)

    with Mario Vella, Alex Vella Gera, Kevin Saliba & Ċali Grima

    Self-published, 2007

  • Mużajk

    an exploration in multilingual verse

    Edizzjoni Skarta, 2008

Awards
  • 2008 Segnalazione, Premio Nosside

Links
  • Antoine Cassar on Youtube

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