Yolanda Castaño

LESS IS MORE

Language: galician

Translations: spanish (LESS IS MORE), english (LESS IS MORE), french (LESS IS MORE)

LESS IS MORE

Non me dixo
se che contase o repugnante que encontro a túa boca,
o charco das túas hormonas pringosas e clamantes.
Preferiría meter os dedos nun cable de alta voltaxe
que a miña cara na redondez irrespirable das túas tetas.
Non me dixo
así me caia enriba agora mesmo unha pía de lastras
antes ca a responsabilidade das túas noites de febre,
que corra o aire entre a miña vertical
e o pastel de xenxibre das túas ganas.
Prefiro alfinetes nas cuncas dos ollos
mellor ca a xelatina das túas debilidades.
Non me dixo fuck off, non me dixo vete
a la mierda.
Prefiro unha dor de ouvidos, un puño na boca do estómago.
Repúgname o fragor tan rural da túa fame,
escoitar berrar as túas coxas
coma bacoriños rosados abertos a machadas.

Simplemente
el non me dixo.

Translations:

Language: spanish

LESS IS MORE

No me dijo
si te contase lo repugnante que me parece tu boca,
el charco de tus hormonas pringosas y clamantes.
Preferiría meter los dedos en un cable de alto voltaje
que mi cara en la redondez irrespirable de tus tetas.
No me dijo
así se me caiga encima ahora mismo un fardo de piedras
antes que la responsabilidad de tus noches de fiebre,
que corra el aire entre mi vertical
y el pastel de jengibre de tus ganas.
Antes quiero alfileres en la cuenca de los ojos
que sorber la gelatina de tus debilidades.
No me dijo fuck off, no me dijo vete
a la mierda.
Prefiero un dolor de oídos, un puño en la boca del estómago.
Me repugna el fragor así tan rural de tu hambre,
escuchar a tus piernas a gritos
como lechoncillos rosados abiertos a hachazos.

Simplemente
él no me dijo.

Language: english

LESS IS MORE

I wasn't told
I can't tell you how repulsive your mouth is to me,
that puddle of demanding sticky hormones.
I'd rather poke my fingers into an electric socket
than stick my face into the oppressive roundness of your boobs.
I wasn't told
I'd rather be buried under a ton of bricks
than under the responsibility for your feverish nights,
I need a ten foot pole between my uprightness
and the spicy cake of your eagerness.
I'd rather have pins stuck into my eyeballs
than to sip the gelatin of your weaknesses.
I wasn't told fuck off, I wasn't told vete
a la mierda.
I'd rather have an earache, get punched in the stomach,
I am repulsed by the redneck ruckus of your hunger,
hearing your thighs squeal
like pinkish suckling pigs split open by axes.

He simply
didn't tell me.

Language: french

LESS IS MORE

Il ne m'a pas dit
si je te disais combien me répugnent ta bouche,
la mare de tes hormones graisseuses et criardes.
Je préfèrerais mettre mes doigts sur un câble haute tension
plutôt que maface dans la rondeur irrespirable de tes tétons.
Il ne m'a pas dit
me prendre sur la tête, là maintenant, un tas de pierres
plutôt que la responsabilité de tes nuits de fièvre,
dégage de ma verticale
avec le gâteau au gingembre de tes envies.
Je préfère encore des épingles au coin des yeux
à gober la gélatine de tes faiblesses.
Il ne m'a pas dit fuck off, il ne m'a pas dit vete
a la mierda.
Je préfère encore un mal de crâne, un poing au creux de l'estomac.
Le grondement si rural de ta faim me répugne,
écouter tes jambes crier
comme de rosés cochons de lait ouverts aux coups de hache.

Simplement
il ne m'a pas dit.

Yolanda Castaño

photo © Pedro Castro

* 19.04.1977, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
lives in: A Coruña, Spain

Yolanda Castaño (Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1977). BA in Spanish Language and Literature and with Media Studies, apart from being a poet, editor and an very active culture manager, Yolanda Castaño has been a columnist and has worked in Galician TV during many years (Galician Audiovisual Academy Award as ‘Best TV Communicator 2005’).
She has published 6 poetry books in Galician and Spanish (“Depth of Field”and “The second tongue” are her last titles), several chapbooks and a pair of compilations. She has won poetry awards amongst which the National Critics Award, the Espiral Maior Poetry Award, the Fundación Novacaixagalicia, the Ojo Crítico (best poetry book by a young author in Spain) and Author of the Year Galician Booksellers’ Award stand out, apart from being shortlisted for the National Poetry Prize.

She is a relevant cultural activist, regularly organizing monthly poetry reading series, festivals, literary and translation workshops, all of them hosting local to international poets (Galician Critics’ Award Best Cultural Manifestation 2014). She was the General Secretary of the Galician Language Writers Association and she has made her contribution to many written media, books, anthologies, conferences and many readings or multimedia poetry performances inside and outside Galicia, including many international poetry festivals and meetings, mostly around all Europe and America but also in Tunisia, China and Japan.

She has coordinated collective books, art and poetry exhibitions, she has published works as an editor, as well as five poetry books for children and four of translations (from contemporary authors like Nikola Madzirov or Marko Pogačar, among others, into Spanish and Galician). She has been involved in many different experiences of blending poetry with music, performance, dance, architecture, visual and audiovisual arts, and even cookery, being awarded for that too. Some of her poems have been published translated into twenty languages. She held three international fellowships as a writer-in-residence, at the IWTCR in Rhodes (Greece) and in Villa Waldberta (Munich - Germany) in 2011, at the HIP-Beijing (China) in 2014 and in Scotland for 2016.

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