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Yolanda Castaño

Pasei tantas veces por aquí… e nunca vos vira.

  • 1 HISTORIA DA TRANSFORMACIÓN | Translations: deesenfrzhcsithrslmkro
  • 2 MAZÁS DO XARDÍN DE TOLSTOI | Translations: endefrzhcsithrslmkroesru
  • 3 *QUE É DOR/ A DOR QUE DE VERAS SENTE | Translations: esdeensr
  • 4 Pasei tantas veces por aquí… e nunca vos vira. | Translations: enzhes
  • 5 METROFOBIA | Translations: esfrsrzh
  • 6 LISTEN AND REPEAT: un paxaro, unha barba. | Translations: esfrensr
  • 7 LESS IS MORE | Translations: esenfr
  • 8 PAN DE CELEBRACIÓN | Translations: esensrzh
  • 9 A POESÍA É UNHA LINGUA MINORIZADA | Translations: esenfr
  • 10 COUSAS QUE COMEZAN POR Y | Translations: esenfrsr
Language: galician
Translations: english (I Passed By Here So Many Times, and Never Saw You Before), chinese (我经过这里无数次,从来没有见到你), spanish (Pasé tantas veces por aquí, y… nunca os había visto.)
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Pasei tantas veces por aquí… e nunca vos vira.

Estamos a facer un inventario minucioso,
coma o herbario dunha constelación impredicible.
Están primeiro os lirios, adobío de estrelas precipitadas,
as dalias e os crisantemos,
hai que contar as papoulas porque tamén o merecen as
           flores tímidas e miúdas.
A da figueira é unha flor subliminar.
As máis librescas de todas, as inflorescencias en capítulo.
A orquídea é claramente unha flor sicalíptica,
imítase de máis, non sigo por aí.
O hibisco enche de antollos e proverbios a tarde.
Hortensias: contádeme canto de feliz fun aquí.
Están os iris, a lavanda, a chamada rosa de té.
E logo está a magnolia que, como o seu nome indica,
en tempos debeu de dar emblema a algún tipo de soberanía mongol.
Calas, anémonas, o aguerrido síntoma do rododendro.
Despois están outros prodixios rexistrables en latitudes afastadas,
como a indicible flor do chilamate
que se sente pero non se ve, coma
ese fondo amor que sobe coma un bramido dende os xeonllos.
Hai
ambroíños de río, rosas chinesas, dentes de león.
Temos tamén cosmos e azar e pensamentos pero esas son xa
flores máis conceptuais.
A pasiflora é coma o trono dunha resposta, o
                                           baldaquino dunha consideración.
Hai flores que levan para sempre o nome do primeiro ollo que as viu.
Lilas, caléndulas, caraveliñas.
Non podo esquecer as mimosas, enxame de diminutas advertencias,
nin as miñas absolutas consentidas: fragor indecente das buganvíleas.


Pero, xa vos dicía, non sei, é curioso,
pasei tantas veces por aquí e…
non,
non vos vira
nunca.

[en Cuadernos de Villa Waldberta/Aufzeichnungen aus der Villa Waldberta, Instituto Cervantes de Munich y Ayuntamiento de Munich, ALEMANIA] (2012)

© Yolanda Castaño
Audio production: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, 2015
Categories: plants

Translations:

Language: english

I Passed By Here So Many Times, and Never Saw You Before

We are making a detailed inventory,
like the herbarium of an unforeseeable constellation.
First are the lilies, adornment of splattered stars;
the dahlias and the chrysanthemums;
the poppies need to be included because those tiny, shy flowers also deserve it.
The fig tree's flower is subliminal.
The most bookish of all: the capitula of the infloresences.
The orchid is clearly a lascivious flower,
it too closely resembles–I shan't go there.
The hibiscus fills the afternoon with whims and proverbs.
Hydrangeas: tell me how happy I was here.
There are the iris, the lavender, what is called the tea rose.
And then there is the magnolia that, as its name indicates,
must once have been the emblem of some kind of Mongol sovereignty.
Callas, anemones, the rhododendron's hardened indication.
Then there are other prodigies findable in distant latitudes,
like the unspeakable chilamate flower,
that is felt but not seen, like
that deep love that rises like a bellow from the knees.
There are
water lilies, Chinese roses, dandelions.
We also have cosmos and sage and impatiens but those are already
more conceptual flowers.
The passion-flower is like the throne of an answer, the
                                                   canopy of a consideration.
There are flowers that forever bear the name of the first eye that saw them.
Lilacs, marigolds, carnations.
I cannot forget the mimosas, swarm of tiny warnings,
nor my most spoiled: the indecent scent of the bougainvilleas.

But, I already told you–I don't know, it's strange,
I've passed by here so many times and
no,
I never saw you
before.

Translation by Lawrence Schimel
Language: chinese

我经过这里无数次,从来没有见到你

我们正在做一个详细清单,
如同不可预见之星座的标本馆。
首先是百合,散落的星星装饰;
大丽花,菊花;
罂粟也收因为这些身材细小的害羞花朵也值得一提。
无花果树上的花是潜意识之花。
最书卷气的是:穗状花簇的花冠。
兰花显然是淫荡之花,
过分类似于——我就不描述了。
芙蓉使下午充满了奇异幻想和谚语。
绣球:告诉我在这里我曾经有多快乐。
还有鸢尾花,薰衣草,被叫做茶玫瑰的植物。
然后是玉兰*,正如这名字所示,
曾是某种蒙古*君王的标志。
马蹄莲,银莲,杜鹃的硬朗迹象。
然后是遥远纬度才找得到的其他神奇,
比如难以言状的奇拉曼特花,
能够感觉到却看不见,如同
从膝盖上发出低沉呼唤一样的深深的爱。
这里有
河流盾牌—睡莲,中国玫瑰—月季,狮齿—蒲公英。
也有秩序花,巧遇花,心绪花,但这些已经
更多地是概念性花朵。
百香果像答案的宝座,
                                    思考的华盖。
有些花永远带有第一眼见到时的名字。
丁香,金盏,康乃馨。
我不能忘记的含羞草,一丛微小的警告,
也不能忘记我的最爱:三角梅的不雅的热情香味。

不过,我已告诉过你——我也不明白,真奇怪,
我经过这里无数次,
不,
我以前从来没有

见过你。

Translation into Chinese by Ming Di
Language: spanish

Pasé tantas veces por aquí, y… nunca os había visto.

Estamos elaborando un inventario minucioso,
como el herbario de una constelación impredecible.
Están primero los lirios, aderezo de estrellas precipitadas,
las dalias y los crisantemos,
hay que contar a las amapolas porque también lo merecen las
flores tímidas y menudas.
La de la higuera es una flor subliminal.
Las más librescas de todas, las inflorescencias en capítulo.
La orquídea es claramente una flor sicalíptica,
se imita demasiado, no sigo por ahí.
El hibisco llena de antojos y proverbios la tarde.
Hortensias: contadme cuánto de feliz fui aquí.
Están los iris, la lavanda, la llamada rosa de té.
Y luego está la magnolia que, como su nombre indica,
en tiempos debió de dar emblema a algún tipo de soberanía mongol.
Calas, anémonas, el aguerrido síntoma del rododendro.
Después están otros prodigios registrables en latitudes apartadas,
como la indecible flor del chilamate,
que se siente pero no se ve, como
ese profundo amor que sube como un bramido desde las rodillas.
Hay
adargas de río, rosas chinas, dientes de león.
Tenemos también cosmos y azar y pensamientos pero esas son ya
flores más conceptuales.
La pasiflora es como el trono de una respuesta, el
baldaquino de una consideración.
Hay flores que llevan para siempre el nombre del primer ojo que las vio.
Lilas, caléndulas, clavellinas.
No puedo olvidar las mimosas, enjambre de diminutas advertencias,
ni a mis absolutas consentidas: fragor indecente de las buganvillas.


Pero, ya os decía, no sé, es curioso,
pasé tantas veces por aquí y…
no,
no os había visto
nunca.


en: Cuadernos de Villa Waldberta/Aufzeichnungen aus der Villa Waldberta, Instituto Cervantes of Munich and Munich City Council, GERMANY] (2012)
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Yolanda Castaño

photo © Pedro Castro
* 19.04.1977, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
lives in: A Coruña, Spain

Yolanda Castaño (Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1977). BA in Spanish Language and Literature and with Media Studies, apart from being a poet, editor and an very active culture manager, Yolanda Castaño has been a columnist and has worked in Galician TV during many years (Galician Audiovisual Academy Award as ‘Best TV Communicator 2005’).
She has published 6 poetry books in Galician and Spanish (“Depth of Field”and “The second tongue” are her last titles), several chapbooks and a pair of compilations. She has won poetry awards amongst which the National Critics Award, the Espiral Maior Poetry Award, the Fundación Novacaixagalicia, the Ojo Crítico (best poetry book by a young author in Spain) and Author of the Year Galician Booksellers’ Award stand out, apart from being shortlisted for the National Poetry Prize.

 photo © Gabriel Tizon
She is a relevant cultural activist, regularly organizing monthly poetry reading series, festivals, literary and translation workshops, all of them hosting local to international poets (Galician Critics’ Award Best Cultural Manifestation 2014). She was the General Secretary of the Galician Language Writers Association and she has made her contribution to many written media, books, anthologies, conferences and many readings or multimedia poetry performances inside and outside Galicia, including many international poetry festivals and meetings, mostly around all Europe and America but also in Tunisia, China and Japan.

She has coordinated collective books, art and poetry exhibitions, she has published works as an editor, as well as five poetry books for children and four of translations (from contemporary authors like Nikola Madzirov or Marko Pogačar, among others, into Spanish and Galician). She has been involved in many different experiences of blending poetry with music, performance, dance, architecture, visual and audiovisual arts, and even cookery, being awarded for that too. Some of her poems have been published translated into twenty languages. She held three international fellowships as a writer-in-residence, at the IWTCR in Rhodes (Greece) and in Villa Waldberta (Munich - Germany) in 2011, at the HIP-Beijing (China) in 2014 and in Scotland for 2016.

Publications
  • Elevar as pálpebras

    La Coruña: Espiral Maior, 1995

  • Delicia

    La Coruña: Espiral Maior, 1998

  • Vivimos no ciclo das erofanías

    La Coruña: Espiral Maior, 1998

  • Edónica

    La Coruña: Espiral Maior, 2000

  • O libro da egoísta

    Vigo: Galaxia S.A., 2003

  • Libro de la egoísta

    Madrid: Visor, 2006

  • Profundidade de Campo

    La Coruña: Espiral Maior, 2007

  • Erofanía

    Espiral Maior, 2009

  • A segunda lingua

    Santiago de Compostella: PEN Clube de Galicia, 2014

  • Profundidad de campo

    Madrid: Visor, 2009,

  • La segunda lengua

    Madrid: Visor, 2014,

Awards
  • 1994 III Premio Fermín Bouza Brey

  • 1997 II Premio de Poesía John Carballeira

  • 1998 Premio Nacional de la Crítica (poesía en gallego)

  • 2007 Premio de poesía Espiral Maior

  • 2009 Premio El Ojo Crítico de RNE (best poetry book by a young author in Spain)

  • 2014 Premio Novacaixagalicia

  • 2015 Finalista del Premio Nacional de Poesía (shortlisted for the National Poetry Award)

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