Gustav Januš

[S TELESNEGA roba]

Language: slovenian

Translations: german (VOM KÖRPERRAND)

[S TELESNEGA roba]

S TELESNEGA roba
stopim v sredino,
če se s svojimi mutastimi rokami
dotaknem rož ali duš,
če iz zemlje in besede
oblikujem testo ali stavke.

S sklenjenimi rokami
pa včasih celo govorim z dušo,
ki začasno biva v belem metulju
in se z vetrom
v pšeničnem klasju igra,
med telesom in besedo
pa še vedno ravnotežje išče.

»Jabolko mi je padlo iz rok
ter ranilo zemljo.«

V ta krog zaidem tudi vsakokrat,
ko med potjo okrogle kamne nabiram,
šentjanževe rože ali rman trgam,
ko hodim bosonog
ali pa ko tečem v nasprotno smer.

Gustav Januš

photo © Tihomir Pintar

* 19.09.1939, Zell-Pfarre, Carinthia, Austria
lives in: Frießnitz (St. Jakob im Rosental), Carinthia, Austria

Gustav Januš, poet, painter, translator and teacher of the Slovenian language, art, physics and chemistry, was born in 1939 in Carinthia. He lives in Frießnitz/Breznica and belongs to the Slowenian minority in Carinthia.

He published his poems in a number of literary magazines, and in 1978 his first collection, P(e)s(m)i (Poems/Dogs), was published by Državna založba in Ljubljana. In 1983, the same collection came out in Klagenfurt under the title Pesmi (Poems). That year also Suhrkamp-Verlag published his poems in the translation of Peter Handke, who later translated three more of his poetry collections.

photo © Tihomir Pintar

In total, Januš has published ten books of poetry in Slovenian, German or in bi-lingual editions. For his work he has received many eminent prizes, including Petrarca Literature Award (1984), the Prešeren Foundation Prize (1986) and the Humbert-Fink-Literaturpreis (2018).

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