Hans Thill
Hans Thill Poems
He walked now jingling as if on
cups dressed gaily after the fashion
of the steppe animals which cut loose
from in his insides
...
in the knee-high grasses we grew quickly
into pines which stood by each other
sharp houses at your back the mountain a
familiar old slope
...
I (Town)
Chequered wood thinly inscribed easily broken
glass. Alarm. The walls once book clad. One stands
before this fine orderly dust. Another
...
IN HASTE the inside returned to the
outside: In her money-bag mother with her
folding umbrella father whose starter
failed
...
Hans Thill Biography
Hans Thill (born October 1, 1954 in Baden-Baden ) is a German author and translator. He lives in Heidelberg and is a member of the PEN Center Germany . Thill grew up in Bühl . He studied languages in Heidelberg as well as law , German language and history . In 1978, he founded the Verlag Das Wunderhorn together with Angelika Andruchowicz, Manfred Metzner, Ulla Tripp and Dorothea Lang . He has translated numerous books from French. Since 2000, he has been the director of the poetry series of the neighbors - poet translating poet , since 2010 artistic director of the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben . Hans Thill, also a "Writers-for-Peace" representative, was a member of the presidency of the German PEN until April 2017.)
The Best Poem Of Hans Thill
Half of Life
He walked now jingling as if on
cups dressed gaily after the fashion
of the steppe animals which cut loose
from in his insides
His skin had grown dry
creaked at each step. Eating he filled
his sandy intestines
while the belt line slowly
climbed in the direction of his Adam's apple
he came apart in two
parts of equal weight which met
in the middle of a lengthways cut
the one rattling and tanked up
the other already emptied out
like a mouth that while sleeping
eats its own teeth
Translation by Andrew Duncan
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