Milan Jesih

[Ti, ki vase, kakor da bi]

Poems

• 1 [Sukanec daljave!] | Translations: de
• 2 [Otrok je jokal] | Translations: de
• 3 [Tiho sta zaspali] | Translations: de
• 4 [Ti, ki vase, kakor da bi] | Translations: de
• 5 [Ženska odrine] | Translations: de
• 6 [Čez veliko časa] | Translations: de
• 7 [Po vodi plava] | Translations: de
• 8 [Že temno zdrsna] | Translations: de
• 9 [Bi velikan dežja] | Translations: de
• 10 [Kratka je bila] | Translations: de
• 11 [Hiška med vrbjem] | Translations: de
• 12 [Gospa in gospod pri mizici sedita] | Translations: de
• 13 [Luči brlijo ob barjanski cesti] | Translations: de
• 14 [Stoji kamnita miza] | Translations: de
• 15 [Za vselej je zastal otrok pred hišo] | Translations: de

Language: slovenian

Translations: german ([Du, der in dich, als ob du])

[Ti, ki vase, kakor da bi]

Ti, ki vase, kakor da bi
hotel, vendar zaradi
sploh še nikoli nisi
in tako

si še zmerom
kar.

Translations:

Language: german

[Du, der in dich, als ob du]

Du, der in dich, als ob du
wolltest, aber wegen
überhaupt immer noch nicht
und so

gehts dir immer noch
irgendwie.

Milan Jesih

photo © Jože Suhadolnik

* 14.04.1950, Ljubljana, Slovenia
lives in: Ljubljana, Slovenia

Milan Jesih (b. 1950) is a poet, dramatist and translator, who studied comparative literature in Ljubljana, now he is a freelance writer. In the late 1960s he started out in the neo-avant-garde literary-performance group before growing disillusioned with ideological and aesthetic projects. A winner of all important national prizes (The Prešeren Prize, The Jenko Award and The Veronika Award), Jesih translated more than forty plays (Shakespeare, Chekhov, Bulgakov etc.).

photo © Jože Suhadolnik

He has published following books of poems: Uran v urinu, gospodar! (Uraniu in Urine, Lord!, 1972), Legende (Legends, 1974), Kobalt (Kobalt, 1976), Volfram (Volfram, 1980), Usta (Mouth, 1985), Soneti (Sonnets, 1989), Soneti drugi (New Sonnets, 1993), Jambi (Iambs, 2000), and his work has been translated into several European languages.

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