Raša Livada (Раша Ливада)

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Language: serbian

Translations: german (DIE VÄTER)

OČEVI

Bljutav im dan i san Bljuju
Na sve što je žuto (brokat)
Što je milje i bosilje
I sumnjaju da im se sumnja
S nadom tih dečaka sklada

U barama od mokraće i vina
Leže njihova usoljena tela
Proćerdana od hrabrosti
I konkurencije

(Pali anđeli)

A velikim švajs-aparatima
Nespretno
(Taj zanat se brzo uči)
Sečemo im bronzane glave
I uši modre od lovora
I vezujemo za tramvaj
Nek tandrču tandrču
Konzerve u magli

U magli između njih i nas

Jer toliko su nam dugo
Gledali kroz prste
Da su prsti postali rešetke

A ja kažem

Preti ili će te zaboraviti.

Raša Livada

Раша Ливада

photo © Mario Leone Bralic

* 13.04.1948, Subotica, Serbia
† 06.11.2007, Beograd, Serbia

Raša Livada was born in Subotica in 1948. He wrote only three collections of poems during his lifetime, but they determined the development of Serbian literature at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. In 1985, he founded the Literary Society "Pismo" and started a magazine of the same name for contemporary world literature. Together with the "Pismo" edition, he founded magazines for Jewish, English, Dutch and Russian literature. Raša Livada was the Editor of the famous Anthology of World Poetry, published by Prosveta in 1983. In the early nineties, at the time of the collapse of Yugoslavia, he was the vice president of the Serbian PEN Center and the first president of the Committee for the Protection of Artistic Freedom. He died in Belgrade on November 6th, 2007.

photo © Mario Leone Bralic

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