German Poetry Now: A bilingual online-anthology, featured by DAS GEDICHT chapbook
Walle Sayer
A little lost shovel lay there
As though waiting
beneath the murky clouded sky
the empty beach as though waiting
for some sort of endowment with meaning
for a Dad maybe,
who forgets the passage of hours
that he otherwise remembers,
while building something
like the prognosis
of a castle in the sand,
delicately over-adorning
its towers,
its crenels,
and then to step back, to wait
along with the kids,
until the water rises
in its show,
a wave jutting forth,
taking everything down and away with it,
the wasted afternoon,
the hours gained
that simply
simply that.
translated by Paul-Henri Campbell
»Lustful Things – Geile Sachen!« im Archiv
»Lustful Things – Geile Sachen!« is an online collection of contemporary German-language poetry in English translation. All poems were taken from issue no. 22 of the German poetry magazine DAS GEDICHT, focused on the Poetry of Things. New English translations by Paul-Henri Campbell as well as the German originals are published here every Wednesday. All poems of this online-collection will also be published in a special print-edition. In order to read previous poems in this series, click here.
»Lustful Things – Geile Sachen!« ist eine Online-Sammlung zeitgenössischer deutschsprachiger Dinggedichte in englischer Übersetzung. Alle Texte sind Band 22 der Zeitschrift DAS GEDICHT entnommen. Jeden Mittwoch erscheint ein neues Gedicht, das von Paul-Henri Campbell ins Englische übertragen wurde, zusammen mit dem deutschen Original. Die Beiträge dieser Online-Anthologie gibt es auch als Sonderausgabe in Buchform. Alle bereits erschienenen Folgen von »Lustful Things – Geile Sachen!« finden Sie hier.
