Gezim Hajdari - Three poems that touch my strings -
Singing my body this
born from this cold space
promises that nothing in the night visions of white temples
I recall in a vacuum
I dreamed
solitary fields to look for signs
confused and understand the form of heaven who loves the depths
do not know why I look to the long thin line of the horizon
or tops with bare birds blacks
where you hide what you do not I?
on algae or lichens flickering white? not leave anything!
(from: "This Body", 1999) ** ** **
Give me your shadow
for my shadow that feels the cold in his name
teach your silence my
madness he needs to invent a God
let me know the snow!
want to hide under his skin
the words never said
(from: "This Body", 1999) ** ** **
I can not break free from the darkness of the stones offered by
My Time
di fango e ombre
Sulla collina di sabbia
gli uccelli gridano
arrochiti
Avrebbe senso ritornare
nel tuo sangue?
Come in altri tempi
ripeto parole di pietra
e volti sconosciuti rimpiangono
un territorio
svanito per sempre.
(da. "Corpo presente", 1999)
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BIOGRAFIA
Gëzim Hajdari è nato nel 1957 a Hajdaraj, piccolo villaggio collinoso della provincia di Darsìa (Lushnjë) dove durante l’autunno e l’inverno si scatenano lampi e tuoni tremendi e tira sempre vento. Nel paese natale ha terminato le elementari, mentre ha frequentato le medie, High School and the Institute for more accountants in the city of Lushnjë. He studied Literature Albanians in Elbasan and Modern Literature at "Sapienza" of Rome.
His literary activity takes place in the name of bilingualism, in Italian and Albanian. He has published collections of poetry: "Erbamara", "Anthology of rain," "Shadow of a Dog", "Sassi upwind", "This Body," "Stigmata," "Black Thorns", "San Pedro Cutud: Journey to the underworld of tropic "," Maldiluna "," Exile Poem. "
part of numerous anthologies and has appeared in numerous poetry readings. It is an honorary citizen of the city of Frosinone for literary merit.
Are you responsible, together with I. Mehadheb and S. Mugno, the Italian translation of the work of most Tunisian poet: Abau Cacem El Chebbi.
has won numerous awards for poetry: Award Eks & Tra, Montale Prize (for unpublished poetry), winner Dario Bellezza, Grotteria Award, Award EtniePoesie Trieste.
His poems have been translated into greek and English. Hajdari writes both in Albanian and Italian, renewing a long tradition of poets (from Seneca to Keats, Nabokov, Yeats, Celan) who have written in the language of the host country. Recurring themes in his poetry are solitude (existential condition almost cathartic), travel (as an exile, but also as a human being) and natural elements like stone, la terra, il cielo.
Ha partecipato a "Lo spirito dei luoghi - Poesia contro la guerra" (1999) e a "Verba Volant" (2000)
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