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Valzhyna Mort (Вальжына Морт)

* * * [Не прислоняться!]

  • 1 Вогнішча з вачэй конскіх | Translations: delt
  • 2 Крыўда | Translations: deltsv
  • 3 * * * [Я] | Translations: deltsv
  • 4 * * * [Мужчыны прыходзяць, як лічбы ў календары] | Translations: deltsv
  • 5 * * * [і быццам бы я шарык] | Translations: deltslhunlptsv
  • 6 Прысьвячэньне | Translations: delt
  • 7 Больніца | Translations: deltsv
  • 8 * * * [Не прислоняться!] | Translations: delt
  • 9 * * * [Каб увайсьці ў гэтую кватэру] | Translations: deltsv
  • 10 * * * [На ўсім чым магла я вузлы завязала] | Translations: delt
Language: belarusian
Translations: german (* * * [Nicht anlehnen!]), lithuanian (* * * [Nеsiremti!])
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* * * [Не прислоняться!]

Не прислоняться!
Я – дзьверы ў вагонах мэтро.
Не прислоняться!
Моўчкі трымайце ў ахапках
і думкі і справы.
Я на наступным вазьму й адчынюся направа.
Стоп! Вам далей!
А на гэтым сыходзіць Варрава.
Я за шчакой яго позірк насіла бяз кпінаў.
Я па вушных лябірынтах Варраву вадзіла.
Ён жа складаў кубік-рубік з маіх успамінаў,
і я галавой упіралася
ў безвыходнасьць.
А я ўпіраюся ў безвыходнасьць нібыта
ў дзявочую цноту, пляву і іду па тым лёдзе,
і прагну зваліцца ў ваду,
гучна крыкнуўшы – годзе!
І зноўку заўсёды знаходжу ўваход
у безвыходнасьць.
Так – не прислоняться!
Я – дзьверы ў вагонах…
Я – дзе вы?…
Зьенчылі і зашапталі прагаліны моваў.
Я разразаю жывот вамі згубленым словам
і доўга вымаю адтуль
пацукоў і пачуцьці.

© Вальжына Морт
Audio production: Belarus PEN-Centre

Translations:

Language: german

* * * [Nicht anlehnen!]

Nicht anlehnen!
Ich bin eine Tür im U-Bahn-Wagen.
Nicht anlehnen!
Gedanken und Taten
haltet wortlos fest im Arm.
Beim nächsten Halt öffne ich mich einfach mal rechts.
Stopp! Ihr müsst weiter!
Hier steigt Barabbas aus.
Ich habe seinen Blick von der Seite ohne Spott ertragen.
Ich habe Barabbas durch das Labyrinth der Ohren geführt.
Er aber hat Rubiks Zauberwürfel aus meinen Erinnerungen zusammengedreht,
und ich bin mit dem Kopf
gegen die Ausweglosigkeit gestoßen.
Ich stoße in die Ausweglosigkeit wie
in die Mädchenunschuld, ins Jungfernhäutchen, und bewege mich auf diesem Eis,
begierig, ins Wasser zu fallen,
laut schreiend – genug!
Und immer wieder finde ich den Eingang
in die Ausweglosigkeit.
Ja – nicht anlehnen!
Ich bin eine Tür im Wagen ...
Ich – doch wo seid ihr?..
Es ächzten und flüsterten die Sprach-Lichtungen.
Ich schneide mir den Bauch auf mit dem von euch verlorenen Wort
und lange hole ich daraus hervor
Ratten und Gefühle.

© Valžyna Mort
Aus dem Belarussischen von Wladimir Tschepego

Language: lithuanian

* * * [Nеsiremti!]

Nesiremti!
Aš – durys metro vagonų.
Nesiremti!
Tylom laikykit suglėbę,
ką veikіаt ar ką sumąstę.
Imsiu kitoj аtsiversiu į dešinę.
Stоp! Jums toliau!
O šioje Barabą išleisim.
Aš už skruosto jo nepašaipų žvilgsnį nešiojau.
Aš ausų labirintais Barabą vedžiojau.
Jis sukiojo Rubiko kubą iš mano prisiminimų,
ir galva rėmiausi
neišvengiamybėn.
Remiuosi neišvengiamybėn tarytum
mergystės skaistybėn, spjaunu, einu per tą ledą
ir trokštu prasmegt vandenin
garsiai surikus – užtenka!
Іr vėl visada būtinai surandu, kaip įžengti
neišvengiamybėn.
Таip – nesiremti!
Aš – durys vagonų...
Aš – kur jūs?..
Sudejavo ir sušnabždėjo kiaurymės šnekios.
Aš perpjaunu pilvą žodžiu, gyvybės per jus netekusiu,
ir traukiu ilgai iš tenai
žiurkes, jausmingai žiurksančias.

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Valzhyna Mort

Вальжына Морт

photo © Heiko Strunk
* 1981, Minsk, Belarus
lives in: Washington DC, United States

Valzhyna Mort born in 1981 in Minsk, Belarus, is a poet and translator.

Graduated from Minsk State Linguistic University with major in English. The texts has been published in various literature magazines, collective books and anthologies such as “Anthology of Belarusian Poetry” (Sofia, 2000), “Frontlinie” (Minsk, 2002), “12+1” (Minsk, 2004), “A Poem for Liberty” (Minsk, 2004) . Participant of many local and international festivals. Her first book of poetry “I’m as Thin as Your Eyelashes” is to be published at the end of the year of 2004. The winner of several poetry competitions in Belarus. In summer of 2004 received the Crystal of Vilenica Award ( Slovenia). Valzhyna Martynava has translated poetry of Rafal Wojaczek, Leonard Cohen and recently Ted Hughes. Her own poetry has been translated into Ukrainian, Polish, German, Bolgarian, Lithuanian, Swedish.

 photo © Heiko Strunk
Valzhyna Mort lives in the USA since 2005.

Publications
  • Я тоненькая як твае вейкі

    Мінск: Ловінаў, 2005

  • Factory of Tears

    poetry

    translated from Belarusian by Valzhyna Mort, Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright and Franz Wright

    Port Townsend WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2008

  • Tränenfabrik

    Gedichte

    Aus dem Weißrussischen von Katharina Narbutovič unter Mitarbeit von Elke Erb (edition suhrkamp)

    Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2009

  • Collected Body

    poetry

    Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2011

  • Kreuzwort

    Gedichte

    Übersetzung aus dem Weißrussischen von Katharina Narbutovič und aus dem Englischen von Uljana Wolf

    Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2013

  • Gossip and Metaphysics

    Russian Modernist Poems and Prose

    Edited by Katie Farris, Ilya Kaminsky, and Valzhyna Mort

    North Adams, Massachusetts: Tupelo Press, 2014

  • Эпідэмія ружаў

    Мінск: Ловінаў, 2017

  • Music for the Dead and Resurrected

    poetry

    New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020

  • Musik für die Toten und Auferstandenen

    Gedichte

    Deutsch von Katharina Narbutovič und Uljana Wolf (edition suhrkamp)

    Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2021

Awards
  • 2004 The Crystal of Vilenica (Slovenia)

  • 2005 Gaude-Polonia-Stipendium

  • 2006 Stipendium des Gästehauses des Literarischen Colloquiums Berlin

  • 2008 Hubert Burda Preis für junge osteuropäische Lyrik

  • 2009 Stipendium des Literaturhauses Graz

  • 2009 A Lannan Literary Fellowship

  • 2010 Bess Hokin Prize

  • 2011 A Civitella Raineri Fellowship

  • 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize

Links
  • Homepage of Valzhyna Mort

  • Der Singende Knochen

    Ein Poesiegespräch über Musik, Metapher und Übersetzung in der Lyrik, geführt von Uljana Wolf

  • Lyrikschaufenster: Anna Hetzer spricht über „Krankenhaus“ von Valzhyna Mort

  • Valzhyna Mort @ Poetry International Web

  • Valzhyna Mort @ Words Without Borders

  • Valzhyna Mort on YouTube

    Valzhyna Mort at The Stain of Poetry Reading Series

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