Milan Děžinský

Spřízněnost

Poems

• 1 Spřízněnost | Translations: de
• 2 Kapsa větru | Translations: de
• 3 Krahujec | Translations: deen
• 4 Do tmy | Translations: deen
• 5 Gravitace | Translations: deen
• 6 Jestliže vlak… | Translations: de
• 7 Vikingské štíty | Translations: de
• 8 Odjezd z ostrova | Translations: de
• 9 O kometě | Translations: de
• 10 Z pobřeží | Translations: de

Language: czech

Translations: german (Verwandte)

Spřízněnost
básníkům mrtvým i živým

Jsme každý jinde
a i tak spolu jak znalci
zaniklého jazyka nebo dávného písma,
podobně jako slepí, co o sobě vědí,
hluší, co se slyší.
Šifranti s prsty v rozebrané rybě,
čtenáři úplňku,
směšní pro dobu,
pomatení pro skutečnost.

Translations:

Language: german

Verwandte
den Dichtern, toten und lebenden

Wir sind selten am selben Ort
und doch immer beisammen, wir Kundigen
einer untergegangenen Sprache oder uralten Schrift,
ähnlich wie Blinde, die voneinander wissen,
Taube, die einander lauschen.
Chiffrierer, die Finger in den Gräten eines Fischs,
Leser des Vollmonds,
lächerlich in den Augen der Gegenwart,                 
verwirrt in den Augen der Welt.

Milan Děžinský

photo © Dirk Skiba

* 17.07.1974, Kyjov, Czech Republic
lives in: Roudnice, Czech Republic

Milan Děžinský (b. 1974 in Kyjov) is one of the outstanding Czech poets of his generation and has the potential to become a classic. He trained as a teacher of Czech and English in Ústí nad Labem, where he also began his literary activities by founding a student magazine in the early 1990s. Since then he has published numerous volumes of verse. In his poems he explores the “secret life” of the everyday. The poetic “I” in Děžinský’s poems sees through everyday imagery into the entropic cosmos of contrary references and a non-linear time that is banished into matter. Milan Děžinský translates such writers as Emily Dickinson, Phil Norton, Bruce Dawe and W.C. Williams from the English. His poetics are influenced by the reading of Anglophone poetry. Děžinský has been nominated for the Magnesia Litera literary prize for poetry several times and in 2014 for the Dresden Poetry Prize. In 2016 he was the inaugural winner of the International Václav Burian Poetry Prize. His poems, criticism and translations have appeared in magazines and anthologies. Poetic networking is important to him, leading him among other things to initiate the annual anthology of ‘The Best Czech Poems’. He works as an English teacher and lives in Roudnice nad Labem, where he has also been a city councillor since 2010.

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