Paul Bogaert

[Wacht maar tot je godin Aurore]

jezik: nizozemščina

prevodov: angleščina ([Just wait until your goddess Aurora]), nemščina ([Warte nur, bis deine Göttin Aurora]), francoščina ([Attends un peu que ta déesse Aurore])

[Wacht maar tot je godin Aurore]

Wacht maar tot je godin Aurore
over haar terugtrekkende tandvlees begint
en je beseft dat je een fortuin hebt besteed
aan placebo’s en kleurspots.

Wacht maar tot jou gevraagd wordt
terug te bellen
naar de demon van het middaguur, die in een espressobar
zijn dagen slijt.

Wacht maar tot er een smurf vol begrip
aan de deur in het schemerdonker jou
twee morfinepompen aansmeert.

Paul Bogaert

Foto © Tineke de Lange

* 03.05.1968, Brussels, Belgija
živi v: Leuven, Belgija

Paul Bogaert’s debut collection of poems, WELCOME HYGIENE, was published in 1996. It features verses full of bizarre logic and a carefully measured mixture of styles and linguistic registers. His restless first person narrator is plagued with over-awareness; the way he analyses himself and others creates an alienating effect.

The same rousing mental and physical sensations surface in his second volume Circulaire systemen (Circular systems, 2002). In this collection Bogaert examines his fascination for all things that rotate. A closed, circular system generates security, but also discomfort. In an aloof, pseudo-scientific tone he creates poetic language machines, in which the ordinary is contrasted with the systematic.

Foto © Tineke de Lange

In 2006, his third collection of poems, AUB (PLEASE), was published. In 2008 Paul Bogaert wrote the National Poetry Day essay Verwondingen (Injuries), in which he tries to explain the secrets of poetry by analysing the Serbian contribution (2007) to the Eurovision Song Contest.

de Slalom soft (the Slalom soft, 2009) is a long, sparkling, narrative poem, featuring a lifeguard in a subtropical swimming paradise, personal coaches, drowned bodies and office workers.

In just a few years and with only four collections of poems, Bogaert has proved himself one of the most striking voices among young Flemish poets.” (Tom Van de Voorde)

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