VAK 27, GRAF NO. 66
Ereveld voor veteranen, Fayetteville, Arkansas
Witte kruisen golven mee
met de groene heuvel
van augustus, doorgewinterde soldaten
wachtend op de inspectie.
Twaalf stukken geschut ver-
breken de stilte, breken
door de dunne muren die wij
om ons verlies heen bouwden.
Vier in kaki gestoken mannen
grijpen sterren en strepen,
vormen rood en wit feilloos
tot driehoeken om,
elke afgemeten vouw
houdt mijn vader vast.
Sandi Stromberg – uit: Frogs Don’t Sing Red,
Kelsay Books, 2023, ISBN 978-1-63980-316-3
SECTION 27, GRAVE #66
Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Fayetteville, Arkansas
White crosses curve
across August’s green
hillside, weathered soldiers
waiting for inspection.
Twelve guns crack
still air, burst through
thin walls we’ve built
around our loss.
Four khaki-clad men
snap stars and stripes,
turn red and white
in perfect triangles,
eacht tight fold
holding my father.
EEN KEUZE UIT DE BETREFFENDE DICHTERSNAMEN:
Chairil Anwar, Antonin Artaud, Ingeborg Bachmann, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Bauer, Wendell Berry, Jeanne Bessière, Elisabeth Bishop, Alain Bosquet, Lucie Brock-Broido, Yosa Buson, Patrice Cauda, Ahmad Chawqi, Necati Cumali, Robert Desnos (2), Roxana Doncu, Daniel Dragomirescu, Lawrence Durrell, Paul Eluard, Rocío Espinosa Herrera, Anestis Evangelou, Tomas de Faoite, André Frénaud, Albert-Paul Garnier, Guillevic (3), Guy Goffette, Armel Guerne, Ulla Hahn, Nazim Hikmet, Per Højholt, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Pierre-Jean Jouve, Kemalettin Kamu, Brendan Kennelly, Lathaa, D.H. Lawrence, Neil Leadbeater (3), Norman Levine, Alfred Lichtenstein, Rebecca Lindenberg, Edith Lomovasky-Goel, Afrizal Malna (2), Aaron Maniam, Maurice Maeterlinck, Robert Mallet, Marion McCready, Paula Meehan, Dyah Merta, Eugenio Montale, Paul Muldoon, Khaled Najar, Ratri Ninditya, Hendrik Nordbrandt, Bernard Odendaal, Ziya Paşa, Sylvia Plath, Jacques Prévert, Oktay Rifat, Michel-Daniel Robakowski, Georges Schehadé, Landung Simatupang, Louis Simpson, Saut Situmorang, Sitor Situmorang, Stephen Spender, Anne Stewart, Ruth Stone, Mark Strand, Sandi Stromberg (3), Jules Supervielle, Cemal Süreya, Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, Georges Themelis, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Paul Verlaine, Nikephoros Vrettakos, Ted Walker en Hans K. Wehren
www.alberthagenaars.nl
Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Frozen Poets - statues, graves and other traces of poets
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
