tutto il resto è diventato memoria
ossigeno dal fuoco
Marianna Kiyanovska (Zhovkva, Lviv Oblast, Ucraina, 1973)
ковтали повітря як землютаке було чорнесусіди що разом город садилиа в тому чорномунемов у мясистій черешнісолодке й гіркеа в тому солодкому і гіркомусолоне і білезапасали в легенях на роки напередне чєрьомухуіншу якусь рослинудекому видихалися кісточки черешеньдекому кулікамені вилазили із орбіті ставали очимавсе інше ставало пам’яттюкиснем вогнем2014
we swallowed an air like earth. . .
we swallowed an air like earththe kind of blackneighbors gardened togetherand in that blackas in a fleshy cherrysweet and bitterand in that sweet and that bittersalt and fleshwe stored in our lungs many years beforehandnot the cherry plumanother treesome of us exhaled cherry pitssome bulletsstones bulged from their socketsand became eyeseverything else became memoryair, fire(Translated from the Ukrainian by Oksana Lutsyshyna and Kevin Vaughn)
Le immagini di (a)live - memoria nelle parole sono di Emanuela Mentuccia, i suoni sono di Silvia Lanzalone, la traduzione italiana dei versi è a cura di Silvia Lanzalone ed Emanuela Mentuccia. Le poesie da cui sono stati estrapolati i versi sono state selezionate dal sito web Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine, che è una pubblicazione di Academic Studies Press and Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute - © 2022, Borderlines Foundation for Academic Studies © 2022, Academic Studies Press.
The images of (a)live - memoria nelle parole are by Emanuela Mentuccia, the sounds are by Silvia Lanzalone, the Italian translation of the verses used is by Silvia Lanzalone and Emanuela Mentuccia. The poems from which the verses were extrapolated were selected from the website Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine, that is a publication by Academic Studies Press and Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute - © 2022, Borderlines Foundation for Academic Studies © 2022, Academic Studies Press.
© Silvia Lanzalone 2022
