Mariusz Grzebalski

O czym myślę

Poems

• 1 Torby | Translations: de
• 2 O czym myślę | Translations: de
• 3 Trzecia opowieść poranna | Translations: de
• 4 Opowieść poranna ze spojrzeniem wstecz
• 5 Zadania
• 6 To odbywa się prosto
• 7 Niepotrzebnie tak wcześnie kładę się spać
• 8 Drugi wiersz dla Janka
• 9 Cała ta reszta
• 10 Jeszcze

Language: polish

Translations: german (Woran ich denke)

O czym myślę

                 dla T.S.

Małe, nieustępliwe dobro,
które podarował dziecku.
Nic po nim nie zostało, tylko to –
ślad w pamięci jaśniejszy niż blizna.
Kropla słońca, w której stoi, i nie maleje.

Translations:

Language: german

Woran ich denke

                              für T.S.

Ein kleines, unerbittliches Gut,
das er dem Kind schenkte.
Nichts blieb davon übrig, nur dies –
die Spur im Gedächtnis, heller als eine Narbe.
Ein Tropfen Sonne, in dem steht es und schrumpft nicht.

Mariusz Grzebalski

photo © Maciej Fiszer

* 22.02.1969, Łódź, Poland
lives in: Dąbrówka, Poland

Mariusz Grzebalski (born 1969, Łódź, Poland), studied philosophy at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and has worked as a postman, museum attendant, court stenographer, and as head of an electrical goods wholesaler. In the 1990s he edited the magazine “Nowy Nurt” (New Current) and “Już Jest Jutro” (It is Already Tomorrow). He currently works with the publishing house of the Cultural Centre in Poznań, as well as with the “Dodatek LITERAcki” publications series, as part of the Gdynia Literary Prize.

photo © Maciej Fiszer

Grzebalski made his debut in 1994 with the book “Negatyw” (Negative), which received the Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna Prize for the best debut of the year. His poems are unpretentious and exciting at the same time. Like small stories, they come from a world which almost no one else seems to see. Grzebalski’s poems, writes Alfred Kolleritsch, “puff and pant and are at the same time joyous. They fight in the mud, breathe the stink of an abattoir, rummage in the barbarity of death. Full of strength, they run riot in an inarticulate world.”

Up till now, Grzebalski has published seven books of poetry, a collected poems, and a book of short stories. Among other awards, he received a Hubert Burda Scholarship in 2001, and has been translated into English, Czech, Slovenian and German. Grzebalski lives in Dąbrówka, near Poznań.

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