Primož Čučnik
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Pick up castaway skates and glide
across frozen pavements.
Point-blank honed, cut into the surface
and let the legs with the skates be one.
...
My friend is an existentialist. He collects china
and Japanese teapots. You get the best cup of tea at his place.
Steeped to perfection. It may not be a true ceremony
but in our drinking, when we sit around the table,
...
Forgive me for being so inconsiderate
praise from the people close to you matters most
love is a rushing homeland on a bicycle
and war only frightful news on people's tongues
...
Boy, where are you skating, in your anger
you have lost your bearings.
There is a universe attracting you
and your skates take leave of the ground.
...
Will you always skate alone.
Will your skating pay off.
Skater, the music blusters out of silence
stronger,
...
I'm sure you absolutely have to
trust imagination and the tracks
that language takes in pathlessness.
It probably knows. In any case,
...
First song speaks of the old way
of life. How things were set
in the beginning and how it was clear where
they should end or outlined begin again
...
Does it mean for you what it means for me,
this air I breathe and/or water I drink
and/or language I speak and so on?
...
Not what it really was but how
it was written. In stars and shifts
in traffic in desolate houses, and big cities.
Jesus is the true answer for all the troubles, preachers
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Primož Čučnik Biography
Primož Čučnik was born in Ljubljana in 1971 and studied philosophy and cultural sociology at The Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana University. His first collection of poetry, Dve Zimi (Two Winters), was published in 1999 and received a literary debut award. His latest books are Ritem v rôkah (Rhythm in hands, 2002), Akordi (Chords, 2004), Ode on Manhattan avenue (2003, a collaborative work with Slovenian poet Gregor Podlogar and visual artist Janez Janša), Nova okna (New windows, 2005), Sekira v medu (Selected poems, 2006) and Delo in dom (Work and home, 2007). A selection of his poems, Zapach herbaty(2002) was published by Studium publishers, Krakow.)
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Chords I à Reverdy
Pick up castaway skates and glide
across frozen pavements.
Point-blank honed, cut into the surface
and let the legs with the skates be one.
Skate away quickly, alone, as though it were a race,
pay no attention to shouts: "Where is he skating?"
It's good to skate this way, no bounds
under skates everything is allowed.
You're the lone skater down here, you see
neither marks nor shadows the skates cast.
You glide among the city lights,
you hold your balance,
you don't fall over backwards.
The skates leave a sharp trace of lines,
grooves in the shimmering surface under them.
So, take a dusty old pair and skate away
into a skidding substance, there you'll feel whole.
Skate by yourself and under you, ice will turn
to a quickened liquid.
Don't tell people about your skating.
Skate as though you weren't skating alone.
Translated by Ana Jelnikar and W. Martin
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