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Ana Luisa Amaral

UMA BOTÂNICA DA PAZ: VISITAÇÃO

  • 1 O EXCESSO MAIS PERFEITO | Translations: deen
  • 2 UM POUCO SÓ DE GOYA: CARTA A MINHA FILHA: | Translations: enen
  • 3 UMA BOTÂNICA DA PAZ: VISITAÇÃO | Translations: deenen
  • 4 LUGARES COMUNS | Translations: deen
  • 5 UNIFICAÇÕES
  • 6 A GÉNESE DO AMOR
  • 7 PASSADO | Translations: deen
  • 8 EM SIMULACRO: OS ANJOS | Translations: de
  • 9 QUE ESCADA DE JACOB? | Translations: deen
  • 10 TOPOGRAFIAS EM QUASE DICIONÁRIO | Translations: enen
Language: portuguese
Translations: german (Botanik des Friedens: Besuch), english (Botanics of peace: visitation), english (A Botanics of Peace: Visitation)
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UMA BOTÂNICA DA PAZ: VISITAÇÃO

Tenho uma flor
de que não sei o nome
 
Na varanda,
em perfume comum
de outros aromas:
hibisco, uma roseira,
um pé de lúcia-lima
 
Mas esses são prodígios
para outra manhã:
é que esta flor
gerou folhas de verde
assombramento,
minúsculas e leves
 
Não a ameaçam bombas
nem românticos ventos,
nem mísseis, ou tornados,
nem ela sabe, embora esteja perto,
do sal em desavesso
que o mar traz
 
E o céu azul de Outono
a fingir Verão
é, para ela, bênção,
como a pequena água
que lhe dou
 
Deve ser isto
uma espécie da paz:
 
um segredo botânico
de luz

© Ana Luisa Amaral
From: Entre Dois Rios e Outras Noites
Campo das Letras, 2007
Audio production: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin 2008

Translations:

Language: german

Botanik des Friedens: Besuch

Ich besitze eine Blume
und kenne ihren Namen nicht.

Ihr Duft vermischt sich
auf dem Balkon
mit anderen Gerüchen:
Hibiskus, Rose
Zitronenverbene

Doch das sind Wunder
für einen anderen Morgen:
Denn der Blume
sind erstaunlich grüne Blätter
gewachsen,
winzig und leicht.

Weder Bomben bedrohen sie
noch romantische Winde
Raketen oder Tornados
noch weiß sie, obwohl sie so nah ist
von der Gefahr, welche die salzige
Seeluft bringt

Und der blaue Herbsthimmel
der vorgibt, noch Sommer zu sein
ist für sie ein Segen
wie das bisschen Wasser
mit dem ich sie gieße

Das muss eine Art
Frieden sein:

ein botanisches Geheimnis
des Lichts

Aus dem Portugiesischen von Timo Berger
Language: english

Botanics of peace: visitation

I have a flower
whose name I don’t know
 
On the balcony,
its scent blends
with other smells:
hibiscus, rose,
a sprig of verbena
 
But they will be prodigies
of another morning:
for this flower
has bred leaves of astonishing
green,
minute and subtle
 
Bombs do not threaten it
nor do romantic winds,
missiles, nor tornados,
neither does it know, although so near,
of the jeopardy the salt
sea air will bring
 
And the blue autumn sky
disguised as summer
gives it such blessing,
as does the little water that I pour
 
And this must be
a sort of peace:
 
a botanical secret
of light

© Translation by Ana Hudson, 2010
Published with permission of 'Poems from the Portuguese' website
Language: english

A Botanics of Peace: Visitation

I have a flower,

name unknown

 

On the balcony,

a scent shared

with other aromas:

a hibiscus, a rose bush,

a pot of lemon verbena

 

But those are marvels

for another morning:

because this flower

has sent out sudden leaves of green

bedazzlement,

tiny and fragile

 

No bombs threaten it

no romantic breezes,

no missiles, or tornados,

it doesn’t even know about the salt,

however close to home,

brought in slant by the sea

 

And the blue autumn sky

disguised as summer

is, for this plant, a blessing,

like my proffered

little drop of water

 

This must be

a species of peace:

 

one of the light’s

botanical secrets

From: What's in a Name. Poetry by Ana Luísa Amaral. Bilingual Edition
Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. New York: New Directions, 2019
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Ana Luisa Amaral

photo © gezett.de
* 05.04.1956, Porto, Portugal
† 05.08.2022, Porto, Portugal

Ana Luísa Amaral was born in Porto, Portugal in 1956. A poet, professor of English and American literature at the University of Porto, pioneer in gender studies, she has published numerous volumes of poetry and children's books, and emerged as a Dickinson translator. She has received numerous awards for her lyrical work, which has been translated into several languages.

Ana Luísa Amaral repeatedly confronted phenomena in the literary tradition that she found strange: male-dominated poetry and the sagas of Western culture. Women's themes often clash with images of biblical origin in her poems, or Greek myths are retold.

 photo © gezett.de
Ana Luísa Amaral died on 5 August in her home town of Porto.

Publications
  • Minha Senhora de Quê

    Lisboa: Quetzal, 1990

  • Coisas de Partir

    Lisboa: Gótica, 1993

  • Epopeias

    Coimbra: Fora do Texto, 1994

  • E Muitos os Caminhos

    Porto: Poetas de Letras, 1995

  • Às Vezes o Paraíso

    Lisboa: Quetzal, 1998

  • Gaspar, o Dedo Diferente e Outras Histórias

    Porto: Campo das Letras, 1999

  • Imagens

    Porto: Campo das Letras, 2000

  • A História da Aranha Leopoldina

    Porto: Campo das Letras, 2000

  • Imagias

    Lisboa: Gótica, 2001

  • A arte de ser tigre

    poesia

    Lisboa: Gótica, 2003

  • A Génese do Amor

    poesia

    Porto: Campo das Letras, 2005

  • Poesia Reunida (1990-2005)

    Famalicão: Quási, 2005

  • Entre Dois Rios e Outras Noites

    poesia

    Porto: Campo das Letras, 2007

  • Se Fosse um Intervalo

    poesia

    Lisboa: Dom Quixote, 2009

  • Inversos

    Poesia 1990-2010

    Lisboa: Dom Quixote, 2010

  • Vozes

    poesia

    Lisboa: Dom Quixote, 2011

  • Ara

    (fiction)

    Sextante, 2013

  • Escuro

    poesia

    Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2014

  • E Todavia

    poesia

    Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2015

  • What's in a name

    poesia

    Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2017

  • The Art of Being a Tiger

    Selected Poems

    Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

    Dartmouth, MS: Tagus Press, 2018

  • Ágora

    poesia

    Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2019

  • What's in a Name?

    Poems. Bilingual Edition

    Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

    New York, NY: New Directions, 2019

  • Was ist ein Name?

    üb. von Michael Kegler & Piero Salabe

    München: Hanser Verlag / Edition Lyrik Kabinett, 2021

  • Mundo

    poesia

    Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2022

Awards
  • 2007 Premio de Poesia Giuseppe Acerbi

  • 2007 Prémio Correntes D’Escritas / Casino da Póvoa

  • 2008 Grande Prémio de Poesia

  • 2012 Prize Rómulo de Carvalho/António Gedeão

  • 2014 Prize of Novel of Associação Portuguesa de Escritores

  • 2015 Gold Medal of Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos

  • 2016 Gold Medal of Câmara Municipal do Porto

  • 2018 Premio Internazionale Fondazione Roma: Ritratti di Poesia

  • 2018 Prize for Essay Jacinto do Prado Coelho, from the Portuguese Association of Literary Critics

  • 2020 Guerra Junqueiro Literary Prize

  • 2020 Prémio Livro do Ano de Poesia do Grémio de Librerias de Madrid, com o livro 'What's in a Name'

  • 2020 Prémio Leteo

  • 2021 Prémio Literário Francisco Sá de Miranda, com o livro 'Ágora'

  • 2021 Prémio Virgílio Ferreira, atribuído pela Universidade de Évora

  • 2021 XXX Prémio Rainha Sofia de Poesia Ibero-americana

  • 2022 a Asociación de Escritoras e Escritores en Lingua Galega nomeou Ana Luísa Amaral como Escritora Galega Universa

Links
  • Ana Luísa Amaral @ Poems from the Portuguese

    21st Century Portuguese Poetry translated into English

  • Ana Luísa Amaral @ Poetry International Web

  • Ana Luísa Amaral @ Wikipedia

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