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Blanca Llum Vidal

La patata

  • 1 New La patata | Translations: en
  • 2 New Raor de raó | Translations: en
  • 3 New Foguerada | Translations: en
  • 4 New VII | Translations: es
  • 5 New Talaiot | Translations: en
  • 6 New Jafre | Translations: en
  • 7 New Poesia | Translations: en
  • 8 New Negranit | Translations: en
  • 9 New Amor dels amors | Translations: en
  • 10 New Tan bonic i tan negre | Translations: en
Language: catalan
Translations: english (The potato)
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La patata

No he donat el meu cor ni sóc cara o barata.
Si es podreix a les mans, què puc fer-ne de nou?
Al racó més tot sol hi ha una amorfa patata
que m’ensenya com grilla, que tot gira i es mou.

Seré fina o abjecta, seré rude o subtil;
tant si faig o desfaig, no vindré a consolar-te:
no seré allò que vols ni de preu ni d’estil,
que ser un cos o ser crossa, enderroca i afarta.

Que ho entenguin per fi els parents i els senyors:
puc fer d’ocell, de peix, de microbi o de mul,
puc ser el món que tremola, puc ser el clot de les pors,
prò no el nom que m’imposis ni a la cara ni al cul.

Que vinguin ficcions ben arran de la vida,
que, així, encarcarada, ennuega i remata.
Com que esteu avesats a contreure’ns la mida,
em declaro deforme i he triat la patata.

© author
From: Amor a la brega
Pagès Editors, 2018
Audio production: Catalunya Ràdio
Categories: identity (personal), plants

Translations:

Language: english

The potato

I have not given my heart and am neither cheap nor pricey.
Should it rot in my hands, what can I make anew?
In the loneliest of corners there is a misshapen potato
that teaches me how it sprouts, spins, and moves.

I will be dainty and abject, crude and subtle;
Well or under done, I shan’t come to console you:
I shan’t be what you hoped for in price or type,
as being a body or a crutch is both destructive and filling.

May they finally understand, relatives and gentlemen:
I can play at being the bird, fish, microbe or mule,
I can be the trembling earth and the waking hole of our fears,
but never the names you have ladened me with – neither face nor bum.

May fictions emerge around life,
that, in its rigidity, stifles and slaughters.
As you are all hell-bent on taking our measurements,
I declare myself misshapen and have chosen the potato.

Translated by Jacob Rhodes
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Blanca Llum Vidal

photo © Maria Casasses
* 03.02.1986, Barcelona, Spain
lives in: Vall de Moc, Spain

Blanca Llum Vidal (1986) was born in Barcelona, grew up in Casserres (Berguedà) and now lives in Vall de Moc in Collserola. Whenever possible, she takes refuge in Felanitx (Mallorca): a place of anarchy and sheepfolds. When she enrolled in Biology, she was told she was a maverick. A year later she gave it up to study Social Work and Catalan Philology. She has a Master’s in Contemporary Thinking with a thesis on Thomas the Obscure by Maurice Blanchot and Existence and Existents by Emmanuel Lévinas.
She has translated La Doleur by Marguerite Duras (LaBreu Edicions) with Arnau Pons. She has edited the stories of Víctor Català (Club Editor) and the poetry of Àngel Guimerà (Edicions 1984), and she was commissioned to create an anthology of feminist essays by Maria Aurèlia Capmany (ARA Llibres). She regularly writes for the cultural and political weekly El Temps.

 photo © Maria Casasses
She has published La cabra que hi havia, Nosaltres i tu, Homes i ocells, Visca!, Punyetera flor, Maripasoula (chronicle of a journey to French Guyana), Aquest amor que no és u / Este amor que no es uno (translation by Berta García Faet) and Amor a la brega.  

Publications
  • La cabra que hi havia

    Palma: Documenta Balear, 2009

  • Nosaltres i tu

    Palma: Documenta Balear, 2011

  • Homes i ocells

    Barcelona: Club Editor, 2012

  • Visca!

    Palma: Documenta Balear, 2013

  • Punyetera flor

    Barcelona: LaBreu Edicions, 2014

  • Maripasoula

    Crònica d’un viatge a francesa

    Tushita Edicions, 20015

  • Aquest amor que no és u · Este amor que no es uno

    Edición bilingue

    Traducción de Berta García Faet

    Barcelona: Ultramarinos Editorial, 2018

  • Amor a la brega

    Lleida: Pagès Editors, 2018

Links
  • Blanca Llum [Poesía contra coronavirus]

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