Arseni Rovinski (Арсений Ровинский)

* * * [потому что ты любишь жить как на складе]

Language: russian

Translations: german (* * * [weil du gerne lebst wie im Lagerhaus]), slovenian (* * * [zato ker ti je všeč živeti kot v skladišču]), italian (* * * [perché ti piace vivere come fossi in un deposito]), polish ([dlatego że lubisz żyć jak na składzie])

* * * [потому что ты любишь жить как на складе]

потому что ты любишь жить как на складе
среди всех этих штук твоих вечно везде разбросанных
ни заснуть ни проснуться

прощай Алёша
мобильные карты Москвы это как с гор вода
или как если смотришь вниз на запад или восток и со всех сторон зелёный-зелёный
а дальше устойчивый тёмно-синий

Translations:

Language: german

* * * [weil du gerne lebst wie im Lagerhaus]

weil du gerne lebst wie im Lagerhaus
zwischen all deinen immer irgendwo verstreuten Sachen
kein Einschlafen kein Aufwachen

leb wohl Aljoscha
interaktive Moskau-Pläne das geht wie Wasser ins Tal
oder wie wenn du hinabschaust nach West oder Ost und überall ist es grün-grün
und dann konstant dunkelblau

Language: slovenian

* * * [zato ker ti je všeč živeti kot v skladišču]

zato ker ti je všeč živeti kot v skladišču
sredi vseh teh kosov večno povsod razmetanih
ne da bi zatisnil oči ali se prebudil

zbogom Aljoša
mobilne kartice Moskve so kot voda s hribov
ali kakor če gledaš dol na zahod ali vzhod in z vseh strani zeleno-zeleno
naprej pa konstantno temnomodro

Language: italian

* * * [perché ti piace vivere come fossi in un deposito]

perché ti piace vivere come fossi in un deposito
tra tutte queste tue cose eternamente in disordine
non si può dormire né svegliarsi

addio Aleša
la carta interattiva di Mosca è come acqua che scende dai monti
o come se guardassi in basso a occidente o a oriente e tutto fosse verde-verde
e più in là ammantato di blu scuro persistente

Language: polish

[dlatego że lubisz żyć jak na składzie]

dlatego że lubisz żyć jak na składzie
pośród tych wszystkich twoich rzeczy wiecznie porozrzucanych
nie ma jak zasnąć i jak się obudzić

wybacz Aljosza
mobilne mapy Moskwy to jak woda z gór
lub gdy spoglądasz w dół na zachód lub wschód i ze wszystkich stron zielony-zielony
a dalej odporny ciemno-niebieski

Arseni Rovinski

Арсений Ровинский

photo © Dmitry Kuzmin

* 22.06.1968, Kharkiv, Ukraine
lives in: Copenhagen, Denmark

Arsenij Rovinski [Арсений Ровинский] was born in 1968 in Kharkiv, now Ukraine; since 1985 he lived in Moscow as a student of Moscow State Pedagogical University, department of history, then wa conscripted to the military service. In 1991 he left Russia and settled in Denmark. The friendship with a fellow immigrant Feodor Svarovsky (which later went back to Russia) lead to the beginning of the poetry group then joined by Israeli poet Leonid Schwab; all the three pretended to create so called ‘new epics’, i.e. rather short narrative poems with somehow bizarre, fictitious protagonists which were intended to represent together a compound picture of present-day world.

Rovinsky’s poetry was first published in 1997 in Moscow, next year he obtained a special diploma at ‘Teneta’, the most voluminous Internet literary competition of the day. The first chapbook of his poetry appeared in 1999, the first full-length book was published on 2004, in Moscow again, and short-listed for Andrei Bely Prize, the most prestigious independent literary award of present-day Russia. Then a collective book of Rovinski, Svarovsky & Schwab and one more personal collection followed. Rovinski’s poetry is an in-depth study of the concepts of alienness and non-belonging.

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