Gustav Januš

[V NE še končanem dnevu]

Language: slovenian

Translations: german (IM NOCH nicht beendeten Tag)

[V NE še končanem dnevu]

V NE še končanem dnevu
sonce pozneje ugasne.

Pogovor v razvajenih
javorjevih listih se podaljša
in med bregovi telesa iščem
pot nazaj v izgubljeno bližino.

Trenutek, ranjena senca,
se razblini in nebesni obok,
na očeh pritrjen, razpade.

Tišina, oblikovana v kamnu,
predrugači vsakdanji samogovor,
obnovi dih ter deluje kot mera.

Je nemi jazik, napet čez čas,
brezobzirna sredina?

Zabrisane sledi nadaljevanja,
zasute v uporu oči,
obkrožene od medigre korakov,
pa so na koncu zakonov,
že vidne kot prag.

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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