Ilya Kaminsky

Still Newlyweds

Pesmi

• 1 Gunshot | Prevodi: de
• 2 Alfonso in Snow | Prevodi: de
• 3 Still Newlyweds | Prevodi: de
• 4 Firing Squad | Prevodi: de
• 5 Lullaby | Prevodi: de
• 6 While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses | Prevodi: bede
• 7 A Cigarette | Prevodi: bede
• 8 We Lived Happily During the War | Prevodi: beru
• 9 That Map of Bone and Opened Valves | Prevodi: be
• 10 While Helicopters Circle, Sonya and Alfonso Drink in the Shower
• 11 Of Weddings Before the War | Prevodi: be
• 12 Mother Throws Milk Bottles at Soldiers
• 13 10 AM Bombardment
• 14 Between Arrests
• 15 [I kissed a woman]
• 16 To Live
• 17 Elegy | Prevodi: lvrutr
• 18 Widower Alfonso
• 19 A Child in His Arms
• 20 Traffic

jezik: angleščina

Prevodi: nemščina (Noch frisch Vermählte)

Still Newlyweds

You step out of the shower and the entire nation calms—

a drop of lemon-egg shampoo,
you smell like bees,

a brief kiss,
I don’t know anything about you—except the spray of freckles on your shoulders!

which makes me feel so thrillingly

alone.
I stand on earth in my pajamas,

penis sticking out—
for years

in your direction.

Prevodi:

jezik: nemščina

Noch frisch Vermählte

Du trittst aus der Dusche und ein ganzes Land steht still –

ein Tröpfchen Zitronen-Eiershampoo,
Du riechst nach Bienen,

ein schneller Kuss,
ich weiß nichts von dir – nur vom Sprüh der Sommerflecken deiner Schultern!

was mich so erregend mich

alleine fühlen lässt.
Ich stehe im Pyjama auf der Erde

mit vorstehendem Penis–
seit Jahren

so dir zugewandt.

Ilya Kaminsky

Foto © Cybele Knowles

* 18.04.1977, Odessa, Ukrajina
živi v: San Diego, California, Združene države Amerike

Ilya Kaminsky was born in 1977 in Odessa in the Ukraine and started writing poems even as a youth in the Soviet Union. In 1993 he emigrated to the USA, where his family was granted asylum. At first he continued writing in Russian there, but in 2002 published his first collection of poems written in English, Musica Humana. His collection Dancing in Odessa (2004) earned him several prizes including the Metcalf Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Whiting Writers’ Award, the Lannan Fellowship.
Kaminsky is among other things the editor in chief of Poetry International and the poetry editor of Words Without Borders. He is also the director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute in Chicago and works as a translator from the Russian. His poetry, which has been translated into several different languages, has gained him a great amount of attention around the world. He lives in San Diego, California.

Foto © Mirko Lux

Gedicht schon auf Favoritenliste

Naključna pesem

PUSH!