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Kendel Hippolyte

Mack 1 – McWanting

  • 1 All this is language | Translations: de
  • 2 11:55 | Translations: de
  • 3 Coda | Translations: de
  • 4 Conjugations – 4: Nox Irae | Translations: de
  • 5 Mack 1 – McWanting | Translations: de
  • 6 Fascioners of Progress | Translations: de
  • 7 Journal fragments in a time of hazard | Translations: de
Language: english
Translations: german (Mack 1 – McHabgier)
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Mack 1 – McWanting

What he’s most wanting is not what he wants
Is not what he craves
Deeper than avarice, if he’d let himself feel, is the haunting hunger
That saves

He holds the whole world with his hired hands
Desperately trying
To have it. But trapped in his spasming grip, his seizures, the earth
Is dying

He cannot stop grasping. Whatever he sees
He is accounting
Its self into cost into price into sale into profit into himself
McWanting

He gluts till he’s wracked with a spasm and spews
Blood-flecked bits of self
A wasting consumption leaving him gasping for life and clutching
At pelf

What is the deep whole he’s wanting to fill
For what is he hungry?
Gorged with the planet’s green flesh, its black bile, its ripped out entrails
And yet empty

Running to every thing and running everything
Avoiding the whole
He’s afraid that will swallow him into its void where he has no thing
No soul

And yet he touches us, Midas-like, desperately
Haunted and haunting
And we, his children, we bear his name like a watermark, secretly
McWanting

© Kendel Hippolyte
Audio production: Haus für Poesie / 2018

Translations:

Language: german

Mack 1 – McHabgier

Das, was er am meisten haben will, ist nicht was er will
Ist nicht, wonach er giert
Tiefer als Geiz, ließe er Gefühle zu, ist die quälende Not
Die spart

Er hält die ganze Welt mit seinen gemieteten Händen
im verzweifelten Versuch,
Sie zu haben. Doch gefangen in seinem zuckendem Griff, in Krämpfen
Stirbt die Welt

Er kann das Zupacken nicht lassen. Was immer er sieht
Muss er verrechnen
Das Selbst in die Kosten in den Preis in den Verkauf in den Umsatz in                                                                                                                           sich selbst
McHabgier

Er giert bis er vor Krämpfen bebt und
Blutbefleckte Stückchen Selbst ausspuckt
Verschwenderischer Konsum lässt ihn ums Leben ringen und am
Mammon klammern

Was ist das tiefe Ganze, das er füllen will?
Wonach hungert er?
Vollgefressen mit Planetengrün, schwarzer Galle, rausgerissnen Eingeweiden
und doch leer

Zu allem hinlaufend und alles am Laufen haltend
Das Ganze vermeidend
fürchtet er, die Leere wird ihn verschlingen, wo er nichts hat,
keine Seele

Und doch berührt er uns, wie Midas, verzweifelt
quälend und gequält
Und wir, seine Kinder, tragen seinen Namen wie ein Wasserzeichen,                                                                                                                               insgeheim
McHabgier.

Übersetzung von Monika Rinck
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Kendel Hippolyte

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* 09.01.1952, St. Lucia, Saint Lucia
lives in: St. Lucia, Saint Lucia

Kendel Hippolyte (b. 1952 in Castries, the capital of St. Lucia) studied at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. He worked as a teacher at St. Mary’s College in Vigie, Castries and at Sir Arthur Lewis College in Mourne. He is an active dramaturge and director with the Lighthouse Theatre Company, which he co-founded, and for which he has written eight plays. His best-known play, Drum Maker, uses idiomatic Caribbean language and explores the political context of the indigenous culture. In his poetry he works in traditional forms such as the sonnet or the villanelle as well as free verse and in forms influenced by rap and reggae.
He has published five volumes of verse and several collections marked by a free, modernist style.
His current focus is on using his skills as a writer and dramatist to raise public awareness and contribute to active solutions to critical social and political topics such as climate change.

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Publications
  • Island in the Sun, Side Two…

    1980

  • Bearings

    1986

  • The Labyrinth

    1993

  • Birthright

    Peepal Tree Press, 1997

  • Night Vision

    TriQuarterly Books / Northwestern University Press, 2005

  • Fault Lines

    Peepal Tree Press, 2012

Awards
  • 2000 St. Lucia Medal of Merit (Gold)

  • 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for Fault Lines.

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