When the modern world eludes the possibility of expression, that’s where Biedrzycki’s poetry comes in
When the modern world eludes the possibility of expression, that’s where Biedrzycki’s poetry comes in
(For excerpt in Spanish, please, scroll down)
Of those
I thought of all those
who hadn’t heard your voice even once.
The fish gills in the stall,
empty cells in the powerbank.
Your dew is enough
for all the blades in the meadow.
And your light ignites the dawn.
More theses
Consciousness observes the life one has lived.
Consciousness catches the light of dead stars.
Consciousness doesn’t reach reality.
It narrates the film after a screening.
With admirable enthusiasm, consciousness
invents a vaccine for a virus,
which has already mutated.
A conscious life is
an endless anecdote
by an interesting bore.
the cold congeals
jackets the grass
c/leaves to the body
columns of moisture
made manifest
before/
nothing more’s needed
in/
vent/
you have to seriously write qwykłie
write ze qwyksylverie/
whether one day we’ll wake up &
suddenly /un/ alone/
we’ll all start to understand
interdialekt
spring/ people
walked long/legged
& b/rave across the street
sorry but yes/
i did see
Translated by Mark Tardi
***
MÁS TESIS
La conciencia observa la vida que se ha vivido.
La conciencia capta la luz de las estrellas del pasado.
La conciencia no alcanza a la realidad.
Explica una película tras verla.
La conciencia con un entusiasmo digno de admiración
descubre una vacuna contra un virus
que ha conseguido mutar.
La vida consciente es
una anécdota infinita
de un interesante tipo aburrido.
SOBRE AQUELLOS
He pensado en todos
los que no han escuchado tu voz ni una sola vez.
Las branquias del pescado en un tenderete,
las barras apagadas del powerbank.
Basta tu rocío
para todos los tallos del prado.
Con tu luz empieza el amanecer.
el frío se congela
sobre la capa de hierba
se dirig/ hacia el cuerpo
unos postes de humedad
evidencian
antes/
ya no es necesario
re/
pensar
hay que escribir en serio mariuto/
escribir ti mariutino/
si una ala nos despertamos y
súbito/no/solos/ de nosotros/
todos empezamos a entender
el interdialecto
la primavera/ de la gente
anduvieron largo/s pies
y reían/se calle de través
lo siento pero así/
lo vi
***
Traduccion: Xavier Farré
Selected samples
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The work of Józef Łobodowski (1909-1988) – a remarkable poet, prose writer, and translator, who spent most of his life in exile – is slowly being revived in Poland. Łobodowski’s brilliant three- volume novel, composed on an epic scale, concerns the fate of families and orphans unmoored by the Bolshevik Revolution and civil war and … Continue reading “Ukrainian Trilogy: Thickets, The Settlement, The Way Back”
