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Malte Persson

  • [När morgonen röntgar natten syns knappt...] | Translations: enro
  • [Kyrkan en station för psalmuppsändning...] | Translations: enrode
  • Solar i svartvitt | Translations: enrode
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Language: swedish
english ([When morning X-rays night...]) , romanian ([Când dimineaţa radiografiază noaptea cu raze X...])

[När morgonen röntgar natten syns knappt...]

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När morgonen röntgar natten syns knappt
ens skelettet: vita fiskben
kvarlämnade i sanden. Vilken katt
var det som kom hit för att kalasa
på detta regnbågsfärgade kött?

Ah, jag menar, vilket sabeltandat husdjur
har vi oss själva ovetande hyst
ihopkrupet i huvudet…

Cyklopen i sin ögonhåla blundar
och notisblocket på nattduksbordet
tiger fromt; dess ränder
alarmerar gryningens fossiljägare och
fiskare efter den pärlemor som återstår
när skjorta och kostym har multnat:
fallfrukt bredvid sängen.

Skattkartan som låg i innerfickan
är sig lik, men landskapet förändrat.
Värdelösa glimmerfyndigheter
är allt som marmorerar mörkret;
bokmärkesglitter virvlande i globen,
lejonkulans hoprullade timmar,
däst smältande sval materia
bakom revbenspersienner:
brontosaurieväder utanför.

Tunga biljardklot
rullar över dissektionsbordet
och strimmor av kroppstempererat ljus
låter genom en tunn skiva
av papayaliknande frukt
stjärnbilder av svarta kärnor träda fram,

vilka en märkligt oomtvistad tradition
ger namn som ”encyklopedin”,
”ishackan”, ”enhjulingen”,
”stora natt”. O stora natt,

mellan vars tassar
jag är en sliten boll
som studsar.

i
© Albert Bonniers Förlag & Malte Persson
From: Dikter
Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2007
Audio production: Albert Bonniers Förlag & Malte Persson
 

Translations:

Language: english

[When morning X-rays night...]

When morning X-rays night
barely even a skeleton is visible:
white fish bones left in white sand.
So what cat came here
to indulge his taste
for rainbow-colored meat?

Ah, I mean: what sabre-toothed pet
have we, unknown to ourselves,
kept crouched inside our head…

The cyclops winks in his eye-socket cave.
The notepad kept beside the bed
is silent. Nonetheless, its stripes
alarm dawn’s fossil hunters and those who fish
for the mother-of-pearl remains
of decomposed men’s clothes.

In its hidden pocket the treasure map
stays unchanged but the landscape doesn’t.
The dark is marbled by no mineral
worth mining: mica’s mimicry
of gold, and glitter whirling
through the rolled up hours
in the lion’s lair, where cool matter
is bloatedly digested behind rib blinds.
Brontosaurus weather outside.

Heavy billiard balls
are rolling over the dissection table
and through a thin slice of tropical fruit
streaks of body-warm light
make constellations of stone appear,

which a strangely uncontroversial tradition
gives names such as “The Encyclopedia”,
“The Ice Pick”, “The Unicycle”,
and “The Great Night”. O Great Night,

between whose paws
I am a worn ball
that bounces.

Translation: Hildred Crill & Malte Persson
Language: romanian

[Când dimineaţa radiografiază noaptea cu raze X...]

Când dimineaţa radiografiază noaptea cu raze X,
de-abia dacă e vizibil un schelet:
oase albe de peşte lăsate în nisipul alb.
Ce pisică a fost pe aici ca să-şi satisfacă
gustul pentru carnea în culorile curcubeului?

Vreau să spun: ce animăluţ de casă
cu colţi încovoiaţi am păstrat, fără să ştim,
ghemuit în cap?

Ciclopul clipeşte în peştera lui ca o orbită goală.
Carneţelul de lângă pat e tăcut.
Totuşi, dungile lui îi alarmează
pe vânătorii de fosile ai zorilor şi pe cei ce pescuiesc
rămăşiţele hainelor unor bărbaţi descompuşi
pentru nasturii lor de sidef.

În buzunarul secret, harta comorii rămâne neschimbată,
dar peisajul se schimbă.
În întuneric nu e nimic pentru care ar merita să sapi:
mica mimează aurul şi un întreg vârtej sclipitor
prin orele ghemuite în sălaşul leului, unde materia rece
e digerată lent dincolo de storurile coastelor.
E-o vreme de brontozauri.

Bile grele de biliard se rostogolesc
pe masa de disecţie,
iar printr-o felie subţire dintr-un fruct tropical,
fâşii de lumină de temperatura corpului
fac să apară constelaţii de piatră,

pe care o tradiţie în mod straniu necontestată
le dă nume precum “Enciclopedia”, “Dalta de gheaţă”,
“Uniciclul” sau “Noaptea Vastă”. O, Noapte Vastă,

între labele cui
sunt o minge uzată
ce sare?

Translation: Claudiu Komartin
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Malte Persson

photo © Sara Mac Key
* 07.12.1976, Mora, Sweden
lives in: Berlin, Germany

Malte Persson is poet, writer, critic and translator.

He has lived in Mora, Göteborg, Stockholm and lives today in Berlin.

Persson made his debut with the novel Livet på den här planeten (Life on this planet) in 2002. He has published three books of poems: Apolloprojektet (The Apolloproject, 2004), Dikter (Poems, 2007) and Underjorden (The Underground, 2011), a collection of sonetts about Stockholms underground. In 2008 he published the historical novel Edelcrantz förbindelser (Edelcrantz’ connections) which was, like a couple of years before Livet på den här planeten, nominated for the prize of the best Swedish novel of the year.

 photo © Sara Mac Key
Persson has translated writers such as Francis Ponge and Thomas Kling into Swedish. He also writes literary criticism in “Expressen” among other newpapers and magazines.

Publications
  • Livet på den här planeten

    2002

  • Apolloprojektet

    2004

  • Dikter

    Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2007

  • Edelcrantz förbindelser

    2008

  • Underjorden

    Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2011

Prizes
  • 2008 Wahlström & Widstrands literary prize

Links
  • Malte Perssons' homepage

    Website (sv)

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