Antigone Kefala

Beer Garden

Poemas

• 1 The Place | Traducciones: de
• 2 Family
• 3 Beer Garden | Traducciones: fazh
• 4 Coming Home | Traducciones: defa
• 5 Transfiguration
• 6 Nameless
• 7 Song | Traducciones: defa
• 8 They Are Still Coming
• 9 Blood | Traducciones: defatr
• 10 Ceremony | Traducciones: defa

Idioma: inglés

Traducciones: persa (باغچه ی جوکاری), chino (啤酒园)

Beer Garden

The man
kept attacking the steak
as if a live animal
liquid ice
running on him
through the sparse
greenery.

Outside, the heat
brushed against us
with fur hands.

Traducciones:

Idioma: persa

باغچه ی جوکاری

آنتیگونه کفالا

مرد
حمله اش را به استیک ادامه داد
انگار که حیوانی زنده باشد
آب یخ
پیش او جاری بود
در میان سبزه های
کم پشت

بیرون ، گرمای هوا
ما را نوازش می کرد
با دست هایی از خز

Idioma: chino

啤酒园

那男的
不停攻击那块牛扒
好像一头活畜
冰液
从他身上流下
穿过稀疏的
草木。

外面，热度
伸出带毛皮的手
与我们擦身而过。

Antigone Kefala

* 28.05.1935, Braila, Rumanía
Vive en: , Australia

Antigone Kefala was born in 1935 in Braila, Romania, to Greek parents. The family were resetlled in Greece after the war, and then migrated to New Zealand (this is the subject of her poem ‘The Place’). She gained a BA and an MA in French Literature at Victoria University in Wellington. Since 1960 she has lived in Australia.

Kefala has published four books of poetry, The Alien (1973), Thirsty Weather (1978), European Notebook (1988) and Absence (1992, 2nd edition 1998); and four books of prose, The First Journey (1975), The Island (1984), Alexia (1984), and most recently, Summer Visit: Three Novellas (Giramondo, 2002). Her poetry and prose has also been published in bilingual English-Greek and English-Czech editions, and in a trilingual English-French-Greek edition.

Kefala’s poetry is remarkable in Australian writing for its uncompromising asceticism of means, its austerity and understatement, and its surreal intensity.

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