Anna Enquist

ESSENTIE VAN HET MISSEN

Idioma: neerlandés

Traducciones: alemán (ESSENZ DES VERMISSENS)

ESSENTIE VAN HET MISSEN

Ik mis de linkshandige, schitterend
spiegelbeeld naast mij aan tafel, ik mis

haar tot brakens toe dagelijks. Het is
de kern van gemis, het missen zelf,

zegt men. Dat zal ik, met gestrekte
hals, fijntjes ontkennen. Dat zal ik

schuimbekkend tegenspreken. De tijd
is een ruimte, je bent altijd bij haar,

zegt men. Ik kijk in de lege spiegel.
Geleerde onzin, schandalige troost.

Ze reed weg met mijn goud, mijn geluk
in haar fietstas, hief haar smalle hand

en verdween tussen de weiden. De kern
van gemis laat mij koud, geen wijsgerige

held gaat mij helpen. Ik mis
het vlees, haar linkshandige lichaam.

Anna Enquist

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* 19.07.1945, Amsterdam, Países Bajos
Vive en: Amsterdam, Países Bajos

Anna Enquist (1945) made her debut as a poet in 1991, and now has eight collections of poetry to her name. She received the C. Buddingh Prize for her first publication Soldatenliederen (Soldiers’ Songs), and the Lucy B. and C.W. Van der Hoogt Prize for her subsequent collection Jachtscènes (Hunting Scenes). Her volumes of poetry have reached an exceptionally large public, as have her novels Het meesterstuk (The Masterpiece, 1994) and Het geheim (The Secret), selling over 100,000 copies. Enquist combines writing with her work as a psychoanalyst.

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In an interview Enquist herself made a link between her psychoanalytical work and her poetry. In both cases, explained the poet, it is a question of finding a balance between analysis and feeling. The poet exlpores the bilingualism between technical and emotional language. The enormous response provoked by her work and the prizes she has received for it testify to her having succeeded in striking a balance between the two. Enquist writes lucid poems, about growing older, motherhood, seeing time slipping through your fingers and the helplessness of not being able to do anything about it. However, the tone of her poetry is fierce and dogged.

Enquist’s poems have been published in translation in eleven countries, among which Germany, England, France, Spain and the US.

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