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De Cubaanse dichter Nicolás Guillén werd geboren in Camagüey op 10 juli 1902. Zie ook mijn blog van 10 juli 2007 en ook mijn blog van 10 juli 2008 xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Gorilla
De gorilla is een bijna
menselijk dier.
Hij heeft geen poten
maar bijna benen.
Hij heeft geen klauwen
maar bijna handen.
Ik heb het nu
over de gorilla
uit het afrikaanse oerwoud.
Het dier dat u hier nu ziet
is bijna een echte gorilla.
Hij heeft poten in plaats van benen,
klauwen in plaats van handen.
Dit is
de amerikaanse gorilla.
Onze inkoper heeft hem in een kazerne
aangekocht
voor de Grote Dierentuin.
Vertaald door Cees Nooteboom
Thick lipped cullud boy
How come you jumps salty
when they calls you thick-lipped boy,
if yo moufs so sweet,
thick-lipped cullud boy?
Thick-lipped as you is
you got everything.
Charitys payin yo keep.
Shes givin you all you need.
Still you go around beefin,
thick-lipped cullud boy.
No work an plenty money,
thick-lipped cullud boy.
White suit jes spotless,
thick-lipped cullud boy.
Shoes two shades o honey,
thick-lipped cullud boy.
Thick-lipped as you is
you got everything.
Charitys payin yo keep,
shes givin all you want.
Vertaald door Langston Hughes and Ben Frederic Carruthers
Nicolás Guillén (10 juli 1902 - 16 juli 1989)
Met de dichter Ángel Augier (l) in Parijs, 1955
De Duitse dichter en schrijver Kurt Bartsch werd geboren in Berlijn op 10 juli 1937. Zie ook mijn blog van 10 juli 2007 en ook mijn blog van 10 juli 2008
Sozialistischer Biedermeier
Zwischen Wand- und Widersprüchen
machen sie es sich bequem.
Links ein Sofa, rechts ein Sofa,
in der Mitte ein Emblem.
Auf der Lippe ein paar Thesen,
Teppiche auch auf dem Klo.
Früher häufig Marx gelesen,
aber jetzt auch so schon froh.
Denn das "Kapital" trägt Zinsen:
eignes Auto. Außen rot.
Einmal in der Woche Linsen.
Dafür Sekt zum Abendbrot.
Und sich noch betroffen fühlen
von Kritik und Ironie.
Immer eine Schippe ziehen,
doch zur Schippe greifen nie.
Immer glauben, nur nicht denken
und das Mäntelchen im Wind.
Wozu noch den Kopf verrenken,
wenn wir für den Frieden sind?
Brüder, seht die rote Fahne
hängt bei uns zur Küche raus.
Außen Sonne, innen Sahne -
nun sieht Marx wir Moritz aus.
Kurt Bartsch (Berlijn, 10 juli 1937)
De Duitse dichter en schrijver Paul Wühr werd geboren op 10 juli 1927 in München. Zie ook mijn blog van 10 juli 2007.
Lesen
Du liegst vor mir geschrieben
ich lese dich ab
ich hör mich von dir sagen
viel Worte schön
dich hör ich so liebreich
liegen
ich denk ich deck die Worte
zu
so mußt du in mir noch
verstummen
so schläfst du auf diesen
Zeilen
still ist das Blatt ich kann
dich
nicht mehr lesen so schön du
bist
da fallen ganz andere Wörter
herein
die sind von mir nicht
geschrieben
sie liegen vor mir auf den
Zeilen
ich lese sie ab ich hör von
ihnen nichts sagen
mich schweigen sie zu die Augen
lesen
ich sehe Wörter die laufen sie
immer nur ab
für uns steht da nichts mehr
geschrieben
Paul Wühr (München, 10 juli 1927)
De Britse schrijfster Aphra Behn-Johnson werd geboren in Kent op 10 juli 1640. Zie ook mijn blog van 10 juli 2007.
Uit:Oroonoko
'Twas then, afflicted as Oroonoko was, that he was proclaimed general in the old man's place: and then it was, at the finishing of that war, which had continued for two years, that the prince came to court, where he had hardly been a month together, from the time of his fifth year to that of seventeen; and 'twas amazing to imagine where it was he learned so much humanity: or, to give his accomplishments a juster name, where 'twas he got that real greatness of soul, those refined notions of true honor, that absolute generosity, and that softness that was capable of the highest passions of love and gallantry, whose objects were almost continually fighting men, or those mangled or dead, who heard no sounds but those of war and groans. Some part of it we may attribute to the care of a Frenchman of wit and learning, who, finding it turn to very good account to be a sort of royal tutor to this young black, and perceiving him very ready, apt, and quick of apprehension, took a great pleasure to teach him morals, language, and science; and was for it extremely beloved and valued by him. Another reason was, he loved when he came from war, to see all the English gentlemen that traded thither; and did not only learn their language, but that of the Spaniard also, with whom he traded afterwards for slaves.
I have often seen and conversed with this great man, and been a witness to many of his mighty actions; and do assure my reader, the most illustrious courts could not have produced a braver man, both for greatness of courage and mind, a judgment more solid, a wit more quick, and a conversation more sweet and diverting. He knew almost as much as if he had read much: he had heard of and admired the Romans: he had heard of the late Civil Wars in England, and the deplorable death of our great monarch; and would discourse of it with all the sense and abhorrence of the injustice imaginable. He had an extreme good and graceful mien, and all the civility of a well-bred great man. He had nothing of barbarity in his nature, but in all points addressed himself as if his education had been in some European court.
Aphra Behn-Johnson (10 juli 1640 - 16 april 1689)
Portret door Peter Lely
De Engelse schrijver en marineofficier Frederick Marryat werd geboren op 10 juli 1792 in Londen. Zie ook mijn blog van 10 juli 2007.
Uit: Peter Simple
The great advantage of being the fool of the family -- My destiny is decided, and I am consigned to a stockbroker as part of His Majesty's sea stock -- Unfortunately for me Mr Handycock is a bear, and I get very little dinner.
IF I CANNOT NARRATE a life of adventurous and daring exiploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess; and, if I do not rise in the estimation of the reader for acts of gallantry and devotion in my country's cause, at least I may claim the merit of zealous and persevering continuance in my vocation. We are all of us variously gifted from Above, and he who is content to walk, instead of to run, on his allotted path through life, although he may not so rapidly attain the goal, has the advantage of not being out of breath upon his arrival. Not that I mean to infer that my life has not been one of adventure. I only mean to say that, in all which has occurred, I have been a passive, rather than an active, personage; and, if events of interest are to be recorded, they certainly have not been sought by me.
As well as I can recollect and analyze my early propensities, I think that, had I been permitted to select my own profession, I should in all probability have bound myself apprentice to a tailor for I always envied the comfortable seat which they appeared to enjoy upon the shopboard, and their elevated position, which enabled them to look down upon the constant succession of the idle or the busy, who passed in review before them in the main street of the country town, near to which I passed the first fourteen years of my existence.
Frederick Marryat (10 juli 1792 2 augustus 1848)
Portret door John Simpson, 1835
Zie voor onderstaande schrijvers ook mijn blog van 10 juli 2007.
De Duitse schrijver en dramaturg Günther Weisenborn werd geboren op 10 juli 1902 in Velbert.
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