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Les Murray

Spermaceti

  • 1 Bats' Ultrasound | Translations: de
  • 2 The Quality of Sprawl | Translations: desv
  • 3 Poetry and Religion | Translations: desv
  • 4 The Broad Bean Sermon | Translations: de
  • 5 The Cows on the Killing Day | Translations: desv
  • 6 Spermaceti | Translations: de
  • 7 Quintets for Robert Morley | Translations: de
  • 8 The Images Alone | Translations: de
  • 9 Ernest Hemingway and the Latest Quake | Translations: de
  • 10 Water-gardening in an Old Farm Dam | Translations: desv
Language: english
Translations: german (Der Pottwal)
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Spermaceti

I sound my sight, and flexing skeletons eddy
in our common wall. With a sonic bolt from the fragrant
chamber of my head, I burst the lives of some
and slow, backwashing them into my mouth. I lighten,
breathe, and laze below again. And peer in long low tones
over the curve of Hard to river-tasting and oil-tasting
coasts, to the grand grinding coasts of rigid air.
How the wall of our medium has a shining, pumping rim:
the withstood crush of deep flight in it, perpetual entry!
Only the holes of eyesight and breath still tie us
to the dwarf-making Air, where true sight barely functions.
The power of our wall likewise guards us from
slowness of the rock Hard, its life-powdering compaction,
from ist fissures and streamy layers that we sing into sight
but are silent, fixed, disjointed in. Eyesight is a leakage
of nearby into us, and shows us the taste of food
conformed over its spines. But our greater sight is uttered.
I sing beyond the curve of distance the living joined bones
of my song-fellows; I sound a deep volcano’s valve tubes
storming whitely in black weight; I receive an island’s slump,
song-scrambling ship’s heartbeats, and the sheer shear of
   current-forms
bracketing a seamount. The wall, which running blind I demolish,
heals, prickling me with sonars. My every long shaped cry
re-establishes the world, and centres its ringing structure.

© Les Murray
From: Translations From the Natural World

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux , 1992
Audio production: 2000 M. Mechner, literaturWERKstatt berlin

Translations:

Language: german

Der Pottwal

Ich töne mein Sehen, und geschmeidige Skelette wirbeln
in unserer gemeinsamen Wand. Mit einem Schallschlag aus der
          duftenden
Kammer meines Kopfes berste ich ein paar Leben vor mir
und bremse ab, daß sie mir rückströmen ins Maul. Ich werde leichter,
atme und sinke träge wieder in die Tiefe. Und schaue in langen tiefen
          Tönen
über die Krümmung des Harten auf Küsten zu, die nach Fluß schmecken
und nach Öl, auf die gewaltigen, knirschenden Küsten aus steifer Luft.
Wie die Wand unseres Mediums einen glitzernden, pulsierenden Rand
          hat:
der widerstandene Druck meines tiefen Fluges darin, ewiger Eingang!
Nur die Löcher des Augenlichts und Atems binden uns noch
an die zwergmachende Luft, wo echtes Sehen kaum funktioniert.
Die Stärke unserer Wand beschützt uns auch vor der Trägheit
des steinernen Harten, seiner lebenzermalmenden Dichte,
vor seinen Spalten und gewellten Schichten, die wir in Sicht singen,
in denen wir aber schweigen, starr, zerstückelt. Das Augensehen ist ein
          Tröpfeln
des Nahen in uns hinein und zeigt uns den Geschmack des Eßbaren
über der Wirbelsäule bestätigt. Doch unser größeres Sehen wird geäußert.
Ich singe jenseits der Krümmung der Ferne die lebend verbundenen
          Knochen
meiner Mitsänger; ich schalle die Ventiltuben eines tiefen Vulkans
der weiß stürmt in der schwarzen Schwere; ich empfange den Einsturz
          einer Insel,
den liedzerfetzenden Herzschlag der Schiffe und den steilen Schnitt von
          Strömungsformen,
die einen Meeresberg umgabeln. Die Wand, die ich blind schwimmend
          zerstöre,
heilt, bekribbelt mich mit Sonarklängen. Jeder meiner langen, geformten
          Rufe
erschafft die Welt von neuem und zentriert ihre klingende Struktur.

Aus dem Englischen von Margitt Lehbert

© 1996 Carl Hanser Verlag München Wien

Aus:
Les Murray: Ein ganz gewöhnlicher Regenbogen. Gedichte. Aus dem Englischen von Margitt Lehbert. München Wien: Carl Hanser Verlag 1996<
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Les Murray

photo © gezett.de
* 17.10.1938, Nabaic, New South Wales, Australia
† 29.04.2019, Taree, New South Wales, Australia

Les (Allan) Murray wird am 17. Oktober 1938 auf einer Milchfarm in Nabaic, im Bunyah, New South Wales, Australien geboren. Bunyah ist weniger ein Dorf als ein Tal mit ein paar verstreuten Farmen und liegt etwa 250 Kilometer nördlich von Sydney in suptropischer Region. Es wurde 1870 von Murrays schottischen Vorfahren besiedelt.

Als junger Mann verläßt Les Murray 1957 seine Heimat, um in Sydney zu studieren (Sprachen, u.a. Deutsch). Aufgewachsen in Gemeindestrukturen, die dem 19. Jahrhundert entstammen, erfährt das großstädtische Leben Sydneys als einen Kulturschock, der bis heute eine wichtige Rolle in seiner Poesie spielt.

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Nach seinem Abschluß arbeitet er einige Jahre lang als Übersetzer westeuropäischer Sprachen an der Australian National University Canberra (1963-67), reist ausgiebig und zieht dann mit seiner Frau Valerie, mit der er seit 1962 verheiratet ist, und seinen fünf Kindern wieder nach Sydney.

Ab 1974 lebt Murray, der sich gern als „Headfarmer“ bezeichnet dort als freier Schriftsteller. Von 1973 bis 1979 ist Murray Herausgeber der Zeitschrift Poetry Australia und von 1976 bis 1991 Lyriklektor im Verlag Angus & Robertson.

1986 kehrt er mit seiner Frau und seinen beiden jüngsten Kindern endgültig nach Bunyah zurück, das er seit 1975 in Teilen zurückkaufen konnte. 1996 erleidet er eine Leber-Infektion, die ihn fast das Leben kostet.

Les Murray hat über 30 Bücher veröffentlicht, ist Herausgeber verschiedener Anthologien, darunter The Oxford Book of Australian Verse, Verfasser zahlreicher Essays und Buchkritiken und Literaturredakteur der Zeitschrift Quadrant.

Seit Jahrzehnten gilt er als der wichtigste Dichter Australiens. Gedichtsammlungen von Les Murray sind in Deutsch, Schwedisch, Dänisch, Norwegisch, Italienisch und Spanisch erschienen.

Publications
  • The Ilex Tree

    Zusammen mit Geoffrey Lehmann

    1965

  • The Weatherboard Cathedral

    1969

  • Poems against Economics

    1972

  • Lunch & Counter Lunch

    1974

  • Creeper Habit

    1976

  • The Vernacular Republic

    Selected Poems

    1976

  • Ethnic Radio

    Poems

    1977

  • The Peasant Mandarin

    Prose Pieces

    1978

  • The Boys Who Stole the Funeral

    A Novel Sequence

    1980

  • Equanimities

    1982

  • The Vernacular Republic

    Poems 1961 - 1981

    1983

  • The People's Otherworld

    1983

  • Persistence in Folly

    Essays

    1984

  • The Australian Year

    The Chronicle of Our Seasons and Celebrations

    Peter Solness photo

    1985

  • [als Herausgeber]
    The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse

    1986

  • The Daylight Moon

    Poems

    Persea Books, 1987

  • Embodiment and Incarnation

    1987

  • The Gravy in Images

    1988

  • The Rabbiter's Bounty

    Collected Poems

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990

  • Blocks and Tackles

    Articles and Essays 1982-1990

    1990

  • Collected Poems

    London: Carcanet, 1991

  • Dog Fox Field

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992

  • Translations From the Natural World

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992

  • The Paperbark Tree

    Selected Prose

    1992

  • Translations From the Natural World

    London: Carcanet, 1993

  • Fivefathers: Five Australian Poets of the Pre-Academic Era

    London: Carcanet, 1994

  • Ein ganz gewöhnlicher Regenbogen

    Gedichte

    Aus dem Englischen von Margitt Lehbert

    München Wien: Carl Hanser, 1996

  • Subhuman Redneck Poems

    Noonday Press, 1996

  • A Working Forest

    Selected Essays

    Sydney: Duffy & Snellgrove, 1997

  • Subhuman Redneck Poems

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997

  • Fredy Neptune

    A Verse Novel

    Sydney: Duffy & Snellgrove, 1998

  • The Quality of Sprawl

    Essays

    Sydney: Duffy & Snellgrove, 1999

  • Conscious and Verbal

    Poems

    Sydney: Duffy & Snellgrove, 1999

  • Learning Human

    Selected Poems

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000

  • A Working Forest

    Essays

    Sydney: Duffy & Snellgrove, 2000

  • Poems the Size of Photographs

    Sydney / Manchester: Duffy & Snellgrove / Carcanet Press, 2002

  • New Collected Poems

    Sydney / Manchester: Duffy & Snellgrove / Carcanet Press, 2002

  • Traumbabwe

    Gedichte

    Aus dem australischen Englisch von Margitt Lehbert

    Zürich: Ammann Verlag & Co., 2005

  • The Biplane Houses

    Sydney: Duffy & Snellgrove, 2006

  • The Biplane Houses

    New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

  • Taller When Prone

    Carlton, Australia: Black Inc Publishing, 2010

  • Killing the Black Dog

    A Memoir of Depression

    [autobiographical]

    New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011

  • The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray

    Carlton, Australia: Black Inc Publishing, 2012

  • New Selected Poems

    New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014

  • Waiting for the Past

    Manchester: Carcanet, 2015

  • On Bunyah

    Carlton, Australia: Black Inc Publishing, 2015

  • Collected Poems

    Carlton, Australia: Black Inc Publishing, 2018

Awards
  • 1965 Grace Leven Prize for Poetry

  • 1965 Captain Cook Bicentenary Literary Competition Prize

  • 1975 National Book Council Award

  • 1976 C.J. Dennis Memorial Prize

  • 1980 Grace Leven Prize for Poetry

  • 1981 Mattera Poetry Festival Prize

  • 1984 Canada-Australia Literary Award

  • 1984 FAW Christopher Brennan Award

  • 1984 New South Wales Premier’s Award for Poetry

  • 1984 Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal

  • 1991 Grace Leven Prizes for Poetry

  • 1993 C.J Dennis Award in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards

  • 1993 NBC Banjo Award for Poetry

  • 1993 NSW Premier’s Literary Award

  • 1995 Petrarca-Preis

  • 1996 T.S. Eliot-Preis

  • 1998 Queen's Gold Medal

  • 1999 Queensland Premier's Prize for fiction

  • 2005 Premio Mondello

Links
  • Les Murray @ Wikipedia

    Website
  • Website dedicated to Les Murray

    Website
  • Lyrikschaufenster: Jan Wagner spricht über „Die Kühe am Schlachttag“ von Les Murray

    Website
  • Lyrikschaufenster: Mara-Daria Cojocaru spricht über „Fledermaus-Ultraschall“ von Les Murray

    Website
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