129. Sein Hölderlinturm

Zehn Gedichte des slowenischen Dichters Uroš Zupan Englisch und Slowenisch gibt es bei Poetry International Web (Danke an Simone Kornappel für den Hinweis). Darunter: Holderlinski Stolp / Hölderlin Tower, das Englisch so beginnt:

34 Chengdujska St., flat no. five,
first floor, three flights up,
straight on and you walk into
a big brass plate, the biggest in all Fužine if not
in all Ljubljana – worthy of a poet. It was put onto
the door by my father. It says ZUPAN on it.
This is my Hölderlin tower.
It wasn’t given to me by a carpenter,
for whom, by way of thanks, I should conjure up gods,
rather, it was rented out to me by Ljubljana City-Centre
Council, but the intention was exactly the same.
This is where I now pass most of my time. I lie about, sleep,
wait for Nataša, fiddle with the remote control and
wait for football to come up on some channel.
Marjan Rožanc would say: mass of the twentieth century.
I move about the stove. Make risotto, pasta, soups.
Bake miracles in the oven. Season salads.

Zehn Gedichte Slowenisch und Deutsch zum Hören und Lesen gibt es bei lyrikline.