Gedichte

by Nicolas Born, Peter Handke (Editor)

88 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1990

About the author

1937’de doğdu. İlk romanı Der Zweite Tag (İkinci Gün) ile Förderpreis Nordrhein-Westfalen edebiyat ödülünü kazandı. 1963-1964 yıllarında Berliner Literarisches Colloquium’dan burs kazandı. Burada Günter Grass, Peter Ruhmkorf, Peter Weiss gibi yazarlardan ders aldı. 1969-1970 yıllarında Iowa yazarlar atölyesinde bulundu. Charles Bukowski ile tanıştı, Allan Ginsberg ile arkadaşlık etti. 1972 yılında toplu şiirlerini Das Auge des Entdeckers (Kâşifin Gözü) adıyla yayımladı. 7 Kasım 1979’da yaşama veda etti.

Reviews

[Uroš Đurković · Rating 3 out of 5]

Koliko god mi ovo ne bio blizak glas, poštujem ga. Born je važna figura nemačke poezije druge polovine XX veka i tvorac nemalog broja upečatljivih slika. Njegova istančana percepcija, ali i politička svest, poziv na otrežnjujuće razračunavanje sa svetskom politikom deo je onoga što Stevan Tontić u pogovoru povezuje sa "sukobom očeva i sinova", posebno aktuelnom u posleratnim prilikama u Nemačkoj. To, kolektivno suočavanje sa najmračnijim mogućim nasleđem, ima i svoj individualni izraz, a Born uspeva da u svojoj poeziji donese i nešto pamtljivo prisno, čak i tamo gde nema ličnog. Oslanjanje na američke pesnike je očigledno, posebno bitnike, te ne čudi da ih je i prevodio. Isto tako očigledno je i pripadanje onovremenim nemačkim poetskim tokovima, ima kod Borna kako Handkea tako i Fauzera. Poneke reference su, ipak, toliko lokalne da su mi sigurno promakle, a stihovi nisu bili toliko podsticajni da im ispitam pozadinu.

Bez obzira na to, izdvajam neke koji zaslužuju pažnju:

„neonski grilovan u svom podzemnom raduˮ (13)

„Je li svako od nas jedno pitanje
i je li svako pitanje pitanje o svemu?ˮ (45)

„i postoje oproštaji kao prerovani kreveti
i oproštaji kao zaboravljene četkice za zubeˮ (55)

„smotuljak voćnih bombona blista u svečanom sjajuˮ (67)

[Katharina Born · Rating 5 out of 5]

Poems
Edited by Katharina Born

Nicolas Born (1937-1979) is today considered one of the most important writers of post-war Germany. In the early 1970`s he was achieving an attention through his poetry unusual for a poet until then. Just as time-bound and typical is his poetry for the experiences of his generation - the effects of the war, the economic recovery, the social movements of the `60s and the heavy disillusionment of the `70s - so equally timeless seems his poetry today. Critically and with humor, he dissects through his poetry an increasingly changed reality: the »delusion-system reality«. During his lifetime, Born resisted all attempts to classify him, whether as a politically engaged poet, a poet of everyday life, or as a representative of the »New Inwardness«, of nature poetry, or of early pop literature.
In this critical edition, a quarter of a century after his early death, the outstanding quality of his poetry is more than ever made clear. Included here along with his well-known poetry are early (and until now unpublished) poems thought to have been destroyed in a fire in 1976. A comprehensive appendix includes early forms, reprints, and variations, as well as early drafts, making it possible to gain an insight into Born`s working methods, to trace influences, and to follow the development of his work.