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Berichten van 29 mei 2013 tot 30 mei 2013

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Elizabeth Alexander, Countee Cullen, Emmanuel Hiel, Martin Jankowski, Jan Geerts


Bij Sacramentsdag

 

 

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Abendmahl door Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, 1515, Ulmer Münster

 

 

 


Am Fronleichnamstage

 

"Mein Fleisch ist wahrhaftig eine Speise,
und mein Blut ist wahrhaftig ein Trank"

O fasse Mut; er ist dir nah!
Du hast sein Fleisch, sein heilig Blut
Genossen ja.
O meine arme Seele, fasse Mut;
Er ist ja dein, er ward dein Fleisch und Blut.

Nicht, wie ich sollte, reich und warm
Kam freilich ich zu deinem Mahl:
Ich war ein arm
Zerlumpter Gast; doch zitterte die Qual
In mir des Sehnens; Tränen sonder Zahl

Hab' ich vergossen in der Angst,
Die dennoch Freudeschauer war.
Sprich, warum bangst
Du vor der Arzenei so süß und klar,
Die Leben dir und Frieden bietet dar?

Wohl ist es furchtbar, seinen Gott
Zu einen mit dem sünd'gen Leib;
Es klingt wie Spott.
O Herr, ich bin ein schwach und wirres Weib,
Und stärker als die Seele ist der Leib!

So hab' ich schuldbeladen dir
In meiner Sünde mich vereint;
Doch riefst du mir
So laut wie Einem, der um Leben weint:
So ist es Gnade, was von oben scheint.

Und hast du des Verstandes Fluch
Zu meiner Prüfung mir gestellt:
Er ist ein Trug.
Doch hast du selber ja, du Herr der Welt,
Hast selber den Verführer mir gesellt.

Drum trau ich, daß du dessen nicht
Vergessen wirst an jenem Tag,
Daß dein Gericht
Mir sprechen wird: Den Irren seh' ich nach;
Dein Herz war willig, nur dein Kopf war schwach.

 

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Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (10 januari 1797 – 24 mei 1848)

De Paulusdom in Münster, dichtbij Drostes geboortehuis

 

 

 

 

 

De Amerikaanse dichteres en schrijfster Elizabeth Alexander werd geboren op 30 mei 1962 in New York. Zie ook alle tags voor Elizabeth Alexander op dit blog.

Race

 

Race

 

Sometimes I think about Great-Uncle Paul who left Tuskeegee,
Alabama to become a forester in Oregon and in so doing
became fundamentally white for the rest of his life, except
when he travelled without his white wife to visit his siblings —
now in New York, now in Harlem, USA — just as pale-skinned,
as straight-haired, as blue-eyed as Paul, and black. Paul never told anyone
he was white, he just didn’t say that he was black, and who could imagine,
an Oregon forester in 1930 as anything other than white?
The siblings in Harlem each morning ensured
no one confused them for anything other than what they were, black.
They were black! Brown-skinned spouses reduced confusion.
Many others have told, and not told, this tale.
When Paul came East alone he was as they were, their brother.

 

The poet invents heroic moments where the pale black ancestor stands up
on behalf of the race. The poet imagines Great-Uncle Paul
in cool, sagey groves counting rings in redwood trunks,
imagines pencil markings in a ledger book, classifications,
imagines a sidelong look from an ivory spouse who is learning
her husband’s caesuras. She can see silent spaces
but not what they signify, graphite markings in a forester’s code.

 

Many others have told, and not told, this tale.
The one time Great-Uncle Paul brought his wife to New York
he asked his siblings not to bring their spouses,
and that is where the story ends: ivory siblings who would not
see their brother without their telltale spouses.
What a strange thing is “race,” and family, stranger still.
Here a poem tells a story, a story about race.

 

 

 

 

Peccant

 

Maryland State Correctional Facility for Women,
Baltimore County Branch, has undergone a face-lift.
Cells are white and ungraffitied, roomlike, surprisingly airy.
This is where I must spend the next year, eating slop from tin trays,
facing women much tougher than I am, finding out if I am brave.
Though I do not know what I took, I know I took something.

On Exercise Day, walk the streets of the city you grew up in,
in my case, D.C., from pillar to post, Adams-Morgan to Anacostia,
Shaw to Southwest, Logan to Chevy Chase Circles,
recalling every misbegotten everything, lamenting, repenting.

How my parents keen and weep, scheme to spring me,
intercept me at corners with bus tokens, pass keys, files baked in cakes.
Komunyakaa the poet says, don’t write what you know,
write what you are willing to discover, so I will
spend this year, these long days, meditating on what I am accused of
in the white rooms, city streets, communal showers, mess hall,
where all around me sin and not sin is scraped off tin trays
into oversized sinks, all that excess, scraped off and rinsed away.

 

 

 

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Elizabeth Alexander (New York, 30 mei 1962)

 

 

 

 

 

De Afro-Amerikaanse dichter Countee Cullen werd geboren als Countee LeRoy Porter op 30 mei 1903 in Louisville, Kentucy, of Baltimore. Zie ook alle tags voor Countee Cullen op dit blog.

 

 

Lines To My Father

 

The many sow, but only the chosen reap;
Happy the wretched host if Day be brief,
That with the cool oblivion of sleep
A dawnless Night may soothe the smart of grief.

If from the soil our sweat enriches sprout
One meagre blossom for our hands to cull,
Accustomed indigence provokes a shout
Of praise that life becomes so bountiful.

Now ushered regally into your own,
Look where you will, as far as eye can see,
Your little seeds are to a fullness grown,
And golden fruit is ripe on every tree.

Yours is no fairy gift, no heritage
Without travail, to which weak wills aspire;
This is a merited and grief-earned wage
From One Who holds His servants worth their hire.

So has the shyest of your dreams come true,
Built not of sand, but of the solid rock,
Impregnable to all that may accrue
Of elemental rage: storm, stress, and shock.

 

 

 

 

Harlem Wine

 

This is not water running here,
These thick rebellious streams
That hurtle flesh and bone past fear
Down alleyways of dreams

This is a wine that must flow on
Not caring how or where
So it has ways to flow upon
Where song is in the air.

So it can woo an artful flute
With loose elastic lips
Its measurements of joy compute
With blithe, ecstatic hips.

 

 

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Countee Cullen (30 mei 1903 – 9 januari 1946)

 

 

 

 


De Vlaamse dichter en schrijver
Emmanuel Hiel werd geboren in Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde op 30 mei 1834. Zie ook alle tags voor Emmanuel Hiel op dit blog.

 

 

Levenslust

 

Men staakt het sombre treuren,
wanneer de lente zingt,
en als met ‘t bloemengeuren,
de hoop in ‘t harte dringt.

Naar ‘t dorpke trekt de jongen
zo fris, zo welgezind;
daar komt hem toegesprongen
een blozend boerenkind.

Ter stede komt het meisje,
zij zoekt haar huisgerief;
maar vindt ook menig meisje
een flinke hartendief.

Zo toont zich, naar gewendte,
de zoele levenslust,
wanneer de gulle lente
de harten wakker kust.

 

 

 

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Emmanuel Hiel (30 mei 1834 - 27 augustus 1899)

Sint-Gillis-Buitenkerk in Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde

 

 

 

 

 

De Duitse dichter en schrijver Martin Jankowski werd op 29 mei 1965 in Greifswald geboren. Zie ook alle tags voor Martin Jankowski op dit blog.

 

 

Zunder

 

die hitze über dem fluß und
das rauschen der bäume

die dächer liegen rot im licht
wie zunder

das land breitet sich leuchtend
unter den himmel

im flirren der blätter tanzen
die halbschatten

und die wellen blinken
wie zunder

die abendhitze summt da kommt noch was
weit hinten klingt es wie musik

und das schilf am graben hinter der wiese
riecht wie zunder

wirf das streichholz weg
steig ins boot

so kann man's aushalten
den kopf voll illusionen in der linken

in der rechten eine handvoll luft
milliarden jahre alt

 

 


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Martin Jankowski (Greifswald, 29 mei 1965)

 

 

 


Onafhankelijk van geboortedata:

 

De Vlaamse dichter Jan Geerts werd geboren in Hoogstraten in 1972. Zie ook alle tags voor Jan Geerts op dit blog.

 

 

Stoel

 

Voor het open keukenraam,
uitkijkend naar de tuin
bind ik haar vast aan de stoel.

Zij zingt. Ik vind niets
om haar kwalijk te nemen.
Ik betrap mijzelf met een schaar

en begin haar natte haar
te knippen. Langzaam.
Zoiets vraagt tijd.

Of ze gaat dood, of ze doet
dat niet. Maar ze gaat dood.
Een andere keuze is er niet.

 

 


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Jan Geerts (Hoogstraten, 1972)

 

 

 

Zie voor nog meer schrijvers van de 30e mei ook mijn blog van 30 mei 2011 deel 1 en eveneens deel 2.

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André Brink, Eduard Escoffet, G. K. Chesterton, Bernard Clavel, Leah Goldberg

De Zuid-Afrikaanse schrijver André Brink werd geboren op 29 mei 1935 in Vrede. Zie ook alle tags voor André Brink op dit blog.

 

Uit: Philida

 

“Here come shit. Just one look, and I can see it coming. Here I walk all this way and God know that is bad enough, what with the child in the abbadoek on my back, and now there's no turning back, it's just straight on to hell and gone. This is the man I got to talk to if I want to lay a charge, they tell me, this Grootbaas who is so tall and white and thin and bony, with deep furrows in his forehead, like a badly ploughed wheat field, and a nose like a sweet potato that has grown past itself.
It's a long story. First he want to find out everything about me, and it's one question after another. Who am I? Where do I come from? What is the name of my Baas? What is the name of the farm? For how long I been working there? Did I get a pass for coming here? When did I leave and how long did I walk? Where did I sleep last night? What do I think is going to happen to me when I get home again? And every time I say something, he first write it down in his big book with those knobbly hands and his long white fingers. These people got a thing about writing everything down. Just look at the back pages of the black Bible that belong to Oubaas Cornelis Brink, that's Francois Gerhard Jacob's father.
While the Grootbaas is writing I keep watching him closely. There's something second-hand about the man, like a piece of knitting gone wrong that had to be done over, but badly, not very smoothly. I can say that because I know about knitting. On his nose sit a pair of thick glasses like a bat with open wings, but he look at me over them, not through them. His long hands keep busy all the time. Writing, and dipping the long feather in the ink, and sprinkling fine sand on the thick paper, and shifting his papers this way and that on top of the table that is really too low for him because he is so tall. He is sitting, I keep standing, that is how it's got to be.

In the beginning I feel scared, my throat is tight. But after the second or third question I start feeling better. All I can think of is: If it was me that was knitting you, you'd look a bit better, but now whoever it was that knitted you, did not cast you off right. Still, I don't say anything. In this place it's only him and me and I don't want to get on his wrong side. I got to tell him everything, and that is exactly what I mean to do today, without keeping anything back.”

 

 

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André Brink (Vrede, 29 mei 1935)

 

 

 

 

 

De Catalaanse dichter, schrijver en vertaler Eduard Escoffet werd geboren op 29 mei 1979 in Barcelona. Zie ook alle tags voor Eduard Escoffet op dit blog.

 

 

Wenn ich dich seh

 

wenn ich dich seh; wenn ich dich nicht seh

wenn ich dich seh: jetzt; wenn ich dich nicht seh: jetzt

wenn ich dich seh: körper und körper; wenn ich dich nicht

                                                         seh: körper und körper

wenn ich dich seh: du das haus das gewicht; wenn ich dich nicht seh:

                                                                         du das haus das gewicht

wenn ich dich seh und es regnet; wenn ich dich nicht seh und es regnet

wenn ich dich seh: die dinge die du mir sagst; wenn ich dich nicht seh:

                                                                         die dinge die du mir sagst

wenn ich dich seh versenke ich das wort in den stein die tür; wenn ich dich

                                      nicht seh versenke ich das wort in den stein die tür

wenn ich dich seh und wenn ich dich nicht seh; wenn ich dich nicht seh und

                                                                                           wenn ich dich seh

wenn ich dich seh, wenn ich dich seh und sterbe wenn ich dich seh;

wenn ich dich nicht seh, wenn ich dich nicht seh und sterbe wenn ich dich

                                                                                                        nicht seh

wenn ich dich seh: tat und tat; wenn ich dich nicht seh: nichts

wenn ich dich seh: dieses licht dieses blendende licht dreht sich im kreis;

wenn ich dich nicht seh: dieses licht dieses blendende licht

                                                                              dreht sich im kreis

wenn ich dich seh und es schließt; wenn ich dich nicht seh

                                                                                 und es schließt die rose

 

 

 

Vertaald door Àxel Sanjosé

 

 

 

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Eduard Escoffet (Barcelona, 29 mei 1979)

 




De Engelse letterkundige, schrijver en journalist Gilbert Keith Chesterton werd geboren in Londen op 29 mei 1874. Zie ook alle tags voor G. K. Chesterton op dit blog.

 

Uit: Father Brown. The Essential Tales (The Blue Cross)

 

“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow lady going up from a small Essex town, and a very short Roman Catholic priest going up from a small Essex village. When it came to the last case, Valentin gave it up and almost laughed. The little priest was so much the essence of those Eastern flats; he had a face as round and dull as a Norfolk dumpling; he had eyes as empty as the North Sea; he had several brown paper parcels, which he was quite incapable of collecting. The Eucharistic Congress had doubtless sucked out of their local stagnation many such creatures, blind and helpless, like moles disinterred. Valentin was a sceptic in the severe style of France, and could have no love for priests. But he could have pity for them, and this one might have provoked pity in anybody. He had a large, shabby umbrella, which constantly fell on the floor. He did not seem to know which was the right end of his return ticket. He explained with a moon-calf simplicity to everybody in the carriage that he had to be careful, because he had something made of real silver "with blue stones" in one of his brown-paper parcels. His quaint blending of Essex flatness with saintly simplicity continuously amused the Frenchman till the priest arrived (somehow) at Tottenham with all his parcels, and came back for his umbrella. When he did the last, Valentin even had the good nature to warn him not to take care of the silver by telling everybody about it. But to whomever he talked, Valentin kept his eye open for someone else; he looked out steadily for anyone, rich or poor, male or female, who was well up to six feet; for Flambeau was four inches above it.”

 

 

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G. K. Chesterton (29 mei 1874 - 14 juli 1936)

Mark Williams als Father Brown in de nieuwe BBC - serie

 

 

 

 

De Franse schrijver Bernard Charles Henri Clavel werd geboren op 29 mei 1923 in Lons-le-Saunier. Zie ook alle tags voor Bernard Clavel op dit blog.

 

Uit: l'Hiver

 

“Il y a chaque année, à partir du début décembre, dans la vitrine de ce magasin qu'on appelle "Le Grand Bazar", un train électrique fabuleux. Tout y est, une gare, des signaux lumineux qui fonctionnent, une énorme locomotive, au moins sept ou huit wagons, un passage à niveau avec des barrières qui se lèvent et retombent. Tout, absolument ! Il faut jouer des coudes pour approcher la devanture.
J'attends toujours le 25 décembre avec une grande impatience. Bien longtemps avant ce jour merveilleux, en m'appliquant beaucoup, j'écris au Père Noël. Puis nous portons ma lettre à la poste, maman et moi, et je m'efforce d'être sage pour mériter ce que j'ai demandé.

Une année, je devais avoir cinq ou six ans, je fis une lettre particulièrement longue (au moins dix lignes) et appliquée ; à peine une douzaine de fautes d'orthographe. J'avais apporté à l'écrire énormément de soin, car je demandais un train électrique. J'avais précisé, pour que le Père Noël ne se trompe pas : "Celui qui est dans la vitrine du Grand Bazar". Maman avait soupiré : "Tu es trop exigeant. Le Père Noël n'est pas assez riche. Si tous les enfants font comme toi, le pauvre homme sera bien embarrassé !". Mais j'avais tenu bon, et ma lettre était partie.”

 

 

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Bernard Clavel (29 mei 1923 – 5 oktober 2010)

 

 

 

 

De Hebreeuwse dichteres, schrijfster en letterkundige Leah Goldberg werd geboren in Königsberg (Pruisen) op 29 mei 1911. Zie ook alle tags voor Leah Goldberg op dit blog.

 

 

About Myself

My seasons are etched in my verse
As a tree’s are in its rings
As my years are in furrowed skin.

 

I have no hard words—
To hamper my visions.
My images
Are as clear as a church’s window.
Through them
One can see
The changes in the light outside
How my loves
Like dead birds fall
From the sky.

 

 

 

Vertaald door Haim Watzman

 

 

 

 

Will there ever come days

To Y., with pride and gratitude.

Is it true - will there ever come days of forgiveness and mercy?
And you'll walk in the field, and it will be an innocent's walk.
And your feet on the medick's small leaves will be gently caressing,
And sweet will be stings, when you're stung by the rye's broken stalks!

And the drizzle will catch you in pounding raindrops' folly
On your shoulders, your breast and your neck, while your mind will be clean,
You will walk the wet field, and the silence will fill you -
As does light in a dark cloud's rim

And you'll breathe in the furrow in breaths calm and even,
And the pond's golden mirror will show you the Sun up above,
And once more all the things will be simple, and present, and living,
And once more you will love - yes, you will, yes, once more you will love!

You will walk. All alone. Never hurt by the blazing inferno
Of the fires on the roads fed by horrors too awful to stand,
And in your heart of hearts you'll be able to humbly surrender,
In the way of the weeds, in the way of free men.

 

 

 

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Leah Goldberg (29 mei 1911 – 15 januari 1970)

In 1946

 

 

 

Zie voor nog meer schrijvers van de 29e mei ook mijn blog van 29 mei 2011 deel 1 en eveneens deel 2.

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