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Ryan Van Winkle

The Ocean I Call Mine

  • 1 Untitled (Howe) | Translations: srbglv
  • 2 The Ocean I Call Mine | Translations: srlv
  • 3 Window, Not Sky | Translations: srfrlv
  • 4 Unfinished Rooms | Translations: srtrlv
  • 5 The Apartment | Translations: trbgardefrkarulv
  • 6 The Flood | Translations: hrtrarfr
  • 7 I Do Not Want Rain for Rain | Translations: hrtr
  • 8 Babel | Translations: trde
  • 9 A Raincoat, A Spell of Rain Ago | Translations: trlv
  • 10 Oregon Trail | Translations: bg
  • 11 My 100-Year-Old Ghost | Translations: bgdelvka
  • 12 Summer Nights, Walking | Translations: bgfrlvka
  • 13 Untitled (Lincoln) | Translations: bgdefr
  • 14 Waiting for the Ocean | Translations: bglvka
  • 15 The Duke in Pines | Translations: trlv
Language: english
Translations: serbian (OKEAN KOJI NAZIVAM SVOJIM), latvian (Okeāns ko saucu par savu jeb Man vajag laivu)
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The Ocean I Call Mine

Flies land on her wrist, legs, the tips of her eyes
remind us we are alive. “Go find something dead,”
she says. And the sun is here for us, the wind

takes our hair like a sail. The ocean I call mine
as if I was floating inside its womb. She says
she feels this too. We are looking at the stretch
of our mother –

both of us from the same place, but opposite. And
it is strange to look at an ocean you've known
your whole life and to see it from another side.
Like catching

your mother drinking a beer before church on Sunday.
You must look at her and admit Yes – this is my mother.
Flies will land on the lip of her glass. Gentle as a tide

she will brush them away. One shore is not a woman
nor a man. You need a boat to see them in their swell.
And am I anything like an ocean,

can I surprise someone by opening my hand as a wave?
May I too have a moment in sunlight when a boy or a girl
will look at me and say, “Father,
Father I need a boat.”

© Ryan van Winkle
From: Red, Like Our Room Used to Feel (audio CD)
Forest Records, 2010
Audio production: Ryan van Winkle & Colin Fraser (Culture Laser productions)
Categories: mother, body, water

Translations:

Language: serbian

OKEAN KOJI NAZIVAM SVOJIM

Muve sleću na njen zglob, noge, vrhove očiju,
podsećaju nas da smo živi. „Idite pronađite nešto mrtvo,“
kaže ona. A sunce je tu za nas, vetar

uzima našu kosu za jedro. Okean koji nazivam svojim,
kao da plutam u njegovoj materici. Ona kaže
da i sama to oseća. Gledamo u raskrečenost
naše majke – –

oboje sa istog mesta, ali naspram. I
čudno je gledati okean kog si znao
celog svog života i videti ga sa druge strane.
Poput zaticanja

majke kako pije pivo pre Crkve u nedelju.
Moraš je pogledati i pomisliti Da – ovo je moja majka.
Muve će sleteti na usnu njene čaše. Nežno poput plime,

ona će ih sprati. Jedna obala nije ni žena
ni muškarac. Treba ti čamac da bi ih video u njihovoj nablekloj
slavi. I pitam se da li sam imalo poput okeana ili

da li mogu iznenaditi nekog otvaranjem svog dlana poput talasa.
Mogu li i ja doživeti trenutak na suncu kada će me dečak ili devojčica
pogledati i reći, „Oče,
Oče treba mi čamac.“

Prijevod: Milan Dobričić
Language: latvian

Okeāns ko saucu par savu jeb Man vajag laivu

Mušas nosēžas uz viņas rokas; viņas kājas, viņas acu gali
atgādina mums, ka esam dzīvi. "Ej, labāk atrodi kādu mironi!"
viņa saka. Un saule ir te tieši mums, vējš

piepūš mūsu matus kā buras. Okeāns, ko saucu par savu,
it kā es peldētu tā klēpī. Viņa saka,
ka arī viņa to jūt. Mēs redzam vien daļu
mūsu mātes —

abi tajā pašā vietā, vien no pretējām pusēm. Un
ir jocīgi skatīties uz okeānu, ko esi
pazinis visu dzīvi, un redzēt to no citas puses.
Tas ir tā, it kā tu

pieķertu savu māti svētdienas rītā pirms baznīcas dzeram alu.
Tev jāskatās uz viņu un jāatzīst: Jā – tā ir mana māte.
Mušas nosēdīsies uz viņas glāzes malas. Maiga kā paisums

viņa tās notrauks. Viens krasts nav ne sieviete,
ne vīrietis. Tev vajag laivu, lai tos ieraudzītu visā plašumā.
Un vai arī es esmu līdzīgs okeānam,

vai es varu kādu pārsteigt, atvērdams savu plaukstu kā vilni?
Vai arī man pienāks mans spozmes brīdis, kad puika vai meitene
uzlūkos mani un teiks: "Tēvs,
tēvs, man vajag laivu."

Tulkojums: Arvis Viguls
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Ryan Van Winkle

photo © Wojtek Kutyla
* 08.12.1977, New Haven, United States
lives in: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ryan Van Winkle (born 1977, New Haven) is a poet, live artist, podcaster and critic living in Edinburgh. Originally from Connecticut, USA, he first arrived in Scotland for the turn of the millennium, and since then has made it his home. He is indefatigably active in the poetry scene there in various roles: as poet, literary promoter, journalist, and long-term member of the multi-arts collective 'The Forest'. His performance “Red Like Our Room Used to Feel” was celebrated as one of the highlights of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2012. Van Winkle’s texts are the expression of a stark, often uneasy emotional honesty. In one performance project, for example, he gave individual readings to his audience in a space that recreated his own bedroom.

 photo © Sabina Theijs
Van Winkle was the first Reader in Residence of the Scottish Poetry Library and Poet in Residence of the Edinburgh City Libraries. His first poetry collection, “Tomorrow, We’ll Live Here” (Salt) won the 2009 Crashaw Prize for a First Publication. His second full length poetry book "The Good Dark" (Penned in the Margins) came out in 2015.

He has been a contributor to the Prairie Schooner blog and the host and co-producer of the arts podcast The Multi-Coloured Culture Laser and the poetry podcast for the Scottish Poetry Library. His poems have appeared in New Writing Scotland, The Prairie Schooner and The American Poetry Review. As a member of Highlight Arts he has organised festivals and translation workshops in Syria, Pakistan and Iraq. He was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson fellowship in 2012 and a residency at The Studios of Key West in 2015. Find his website at www.ryanvanwinkle.com

Publications
  • Tomorrow, We Will Live Here

    Salt Publications, 2010

  • Red, Like Our Room Used to Feel

    audio CD

    Forest Records, 2010

  • ViewMaster

    book & album, with Dan Gorman

    Stewed Rhubarb & Invisible Agent, 2014

  • The Good Dark

    Penned in the Margins, 2015

Awards
  • 2009 Crashaw Prize for a First Publication (for: Tomorrow, We Will Live Here)

  • 2015 The Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award (for: The Good Dark)

Links
  • Ryan Van Winkle's website

    Website
  • Interview for 3:am Magazine

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