fredag 16. oktober 2009
Utdrag fra “Skuggar” av Jon Fosse
Utdrag fra “Skuggar”, De Utvalgte /Jon Fosse.
Forestilling på Tou Scene, Stavanger 20-23 oktober 2009.
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fredag 2. oktober 2009
Poetisk folkrock
LANGSETTER VÆGEN
(Steve Earle/Kari Grinden Lilleseth)
Litt om folkrockbandet LOFT her!
Og litt om Kari Grinden Lilleseth her!
Og litt om Steve Earle her!
Og her! skriver Steve Earle om hvordan han kom til å skrive haikuer - og hva denne haiku-skrivingen betød for ham.
En liten smakebit fra “haiku-året” hans, en haiku av senryu-typen:
Lazy little cloud
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torsdag 1. oktober 2009
Bill Holm´s oppskrift på islandsk brødsuppe
Bread Soup: An Old Icelandic Recipe
Start with the square heavy loaf
steamed a whole day in a hot spring
until the coarse rye, sugar, yeast
grow dense as a black hole of bread.
Let it age and dry a little,
then soak the old loaf for a day
in warm water flavored
with raisins and lemon slices.
Boil it until it is thick as molasses.
Pour it in a flat white bowl.
Ladle a good dollop of whipped cream
to melt in its brown belly.
This soup is alive as any animal,
and the yeast and cream and rye
will sing inside you after eating
for a long time.
(Bill Holm)
I min (foreløpige!) overdikting:
Brødsuppe: En gammel islandsk oppskrift
Begynn med det tunge kvadratiske brødet
dampet en hel dag i en varm kilde
til den grove rugen, sukker, gjær
eser seg tett som et sort hull av brødstoff.
La det eldes og tørke litt,
legg deretter det gamle brødet i bløt
en dags tid i lunkent vann smaksatt
med rosiner og sitronskiver.
Kok det til det blir tjukt som sirup.
Hell det i en flat hvit bolle.
Ha i en god klatt pisket kremfløte
som kan smelte i brødets brune mage.
Denne suppen er levende som et dyr,
og etter at du har spist den,
vil gjæren og fløten og rugen
synge i deg lenge.
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Litt om Bill Holm på Wikipedia her!
Dessverre ser det ikke ut til at det fins noen videoer på nettet hvor han leser (hele) egne dikt, men jeg fant denne vesle snutten her - fra et skolebesøk ikke lenge før han døde:
tirsdag 22. september 2009
Billy Collins leser “Consolation” (“Trøst”)
Consolation
How agreeable it is not to be touring Italy this summer,
wandering her cities and ascending her torrid hilltowns.
How much better to cruise these local, familiar streets,
fully grasping the meaning of every roadsign and billboard
and all the sudden hand gestures of my compatriots.
There are no abbeys here, no crumbling frescoes or famous
domes and there is no need to memorize a succession
of kings or tour the dripping corners of a dungeon.
No need to stand around a sarcophagus, see Napoleon's
little bed on Elba, or view the bones of a saint under glass.
How much better to command the simple precinct of home
than be dwarfed by pillar, arch, and basilica.
Why hide my head in phrase books and wrinkled maps?
Why feed scenery into a hungry, one-eyes camera
eager to eat the world one monument at a time?
Instead of slouching in a café ignorant of the word for ice,
I will head down to the coffee shop and the waitress
known as Dot. I will slide into the flow of the morning
paper, all language barriers down,
rivers of idiom running freely, eggs over easy on the way.
And after breakfast, I will not have to find someone
willing to photograph me with my arm around the owner.
I will not puzzle over the bill or record in a journal
what I had to eat and how the sun came in the window.
It is enough to climb back into the car
as if it were the great car of English itself
and sounding my loud vernacular horn, speed off
down a road that will never lead to Rome, not even Bologna.
Litt om Billy Collins fins her! Og litt til på denne bloggen under juni, juli og november (alle i 2008).
(Stor takk til Kjersti Bjørkmo som gjorde oppmerksom!)
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søndag 6. september 2009
Patricia Smith - "34"
Her er Patricia Smith´s UPI-innledning og skriftlige versjon av diktet hvor hun gir stemme til 34 av ofrene for orkanen Katrina:
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ST. BERNARD PARISH, La., Sept. 7 (UPI) – Thirty-four bodies were found drowned in a nursing home where people did not evacuate. The more than half of the residents of St. Rita’s nursing home, 20 miles southeast from downtown New Orleans, died Aug. 29 when floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina reached the home’s roof.
1.
I believe Jesus is hugely who He says he is: The crook of an arm, a shadow threatening my hair. a hellish glare beneath the moonwash, the slapping storm that wakes me, the washing clean.
2.
The Reaper has touched his lips to my days, blessing me with gray fragrance and awkward new skin. What makes the dust of me smell like a dashed miracle, the underside of everything? What requires me to hear the bones?
3.
Before the rain stung like silver, I had forgotten me. My name was a rude visitor, arriving unannounced, without a gift, always leaving too soon.
4.
If you knew my alley, its stink and blue, if you knew dirt-gritted collard greens that are salt-pork slick and doused with Tabasco, then you knew me. I know that you’ve come with my engine, and the rest of my skin. You will rise me.
5.
Son don’t rise, daughter don’t know enough to dial a phone. Gets harder to remember how my womb folded because of them, how all of me lumbered with their foolish weight. See what they have done, how hard and sweet they done dropped me here?
6.
Clumps of earth in the rising and me too weathered to birth a howl. I sleep in small shatters. I climb the bitten left wall of my heart. In all the places I fall, it is dry.
7.
We knew we had been bred for sacrifice, our overflow of yesterdays too wretched a nudge, our tired hearts borderless and already mapped for the Motherland. We reach for the past like it is food and we are starving. They scour our surfaces, prepare us, wrap us in white.
8.
When help comes, it will be young men smelling like cigarettes and Chevys, muscled boys with autumn breath and steel baskets just the right size for our souls. To save us, they will rub our gums with hard bread. They will offer us
water.
9.
To cool fever, rub the sickness with wet earth. For swelling, boil a just plucked chicken and douse the hurt in the steam. Always from the position of the knees, create the savior you need. Then wait.
Wait.
Jesus…both faith and magic have failed.
10.
There is no light, no thin food moving through my arms. Even without machines, I feel my numbers have soared. I am a sudden second of soft leaving. I’m cold and I’m strapped to this country.
11.
Daughter, son, I am bursting with this. I am straining to celebrate the links of blood. I am wide aloud craving something shaped like you.
12.
There are no bridges.
13.
We are stunned on our scabbed backs. There is the sound of whispered splashing, and then this:
Leave them.
14.
Our father…
15.
The walls are slithering with Bayou spit, tears, the badness that muddies rivers. We flail in that sin, alive and bended beneath a wretched Southern rain. We sip our breath from that filthy ocean. Only some things float.
16.
I ain’t scared of no wet, no wave. I done seen more than this. God is in all houses. Just balance the huge noun of Him on your tongue.
17.
Wait with me. Watch me sleep in this room that looks so much like night. I’m gon’ wake up, I swear it, to some kind of sun.
18.
Which art in heaven…
19.
My name Earline and I’m gon’ say you my life-- sugar in my veins, a single cloudy eye, and blood when I pee. Half dead, I used to say, I used to tell ‘em Hell, I’m already half dead.
20.
I have forgotten how to pray, cannot find my knees.
I want the man with my needles. I want that sting, those silver holes in my body, I want my needles, I want my sleep for days, I wanna cheat the Reaper.
I want somebody’s hand.
21.
Hallowed be thy name
22.
Hollow be our names. Call us running boards, the ice man, big band, hogshead, possum in stewing pots. Twist our heads on our snapping necks back to where we danced from. Call us names that are barely necessary. Call us those who do not need these days.
23.
Big Easy. I ran your green, rolled in your red dust, and your sun turned the white of me red and the black of me blue. Funny how colored I got, how I absorbed your heat, and how you, without flinching, called me your child.
24.
God, we need your glitter, you know, those wacky miracles you do for no reason at all?
25.
I fight the rise with all the guitar left in my throat. Old folks got shit to say, ain’t got but a little time to say it. We don’t never die quiet.
26.
A sudden ocean of everyone’s shoulders.
27.
And this scripture: Leave them.
28.
And I am left, no deity hovering, no black hair on my head, all of me thinner than when I began.
Fingers of ice climb me, reach my dimming light, and choke my only angel.
29.
I had the rumble hips, I tell ya. I was slingback and press curl and big titties with necessary milk. I was somebody’s woman, I was the city where the city wasn’t. Louisiana, goddamn. You lied to me so lush.
30.
I lost my seeing in that war. But I ain’t gonna need these old eyes for that resurrection.
That’s gon’ be one hell of a line.
I’ll be the one slightly off center. I’ll be the one facing the wrong way.
31.
They left us. Me. Him. Our crinkled hands. They left our hard histories, our gone children and storytells. They left the porch creaking. They left us to our God, but our God was mesmerized elsewhere, watching his rain.
32.
Thy will be done.
33.
No more of us, stunned and silent on the skin of this sea, this thunderous wet. We bob and bounce and spin slow, draped in an odd sparkle.
34.
The underearth turns its face to us.
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tirsdag 1. september 2009
lørdag 15. august 2009
torsdag 6. august 2009
Joy Harjo
“A Poem To Get Rid Of Fear” fra She Had Some Horses 1983/2006
Mer om Joy Harjo her!
Og her er et annet dikt fra samme samling:
The Woman Hanging From The Thirteenth Floor Window
She is the woman hanging from the 13th floor
window. Her hands are pressed white against the
concrete moulding of the tenement building. She
hangs from the 13th floor window in east Chicago,
with a swirl of birds over her head. They could
be a halo, or a storm of glass waiting to crush her.
She thinks she will be set free.
The woman hanging from the 13th floor window
on the east side of Chicago is not alone.
She is a woman of children, of the baby, Carlos,
and of Margaret, and of Jimmy who is the oldest.
She is her mother's daughter and her father's son.
She is several pieces between the two husbands
she has had. She is all the women of the apartment
building who stand watching her, watching themselves.
When she was young she ate wild rice on scraped down
plates in warm wood rooms. It was in the farther
north and she was the baby then. They rocked her.
She sees Lake Michigan lapping at the shores of
herself. It is a dizzy hole of water and the rich
live in tall glass houses at the edge of it. In some
places Lake Michigan speaks softly, here, it just sputters
and butts itself against the asphalt. She sees
other buildings just like hers. She sees other
women hanging from many-floored windows
counting their lives in the palms of their hands
and in the palms of their children's hands.
She is the woman hanging from the 13th floor window
on the Indian side of town. Her belly is soft from
her children's births, her worn levis swing down below
her waist, and then her feet, and then her heart.
She is dangling.
The woman hanging from the 13th floor hears voices.
They come to her in the night when the lights have gone
dim. Sometimes they are little cats mewing and scratching
at the door, sometimes they are her grandmother's voice,
and sometimes they are gigantic men of light whispering
to her to get up, to get up, to get up. That's when she wants
to have another child to hold onto in the night, to be able
to fall back into dreams.
And the woman hanging from the 13th floor window
hears other voices. Some of them scream out from below
for her to jump, they would push her over. Others cry softly
from the sidewalks, pull their children up like flowers and gather
them into their arms. They would help her, like themselves.
But she is the woman hanging from the 13th floor window,
and she knows she is hanging by her own fingers, her
own skin, her own thread of indecision.
She thinks of Carlos, of Margaret, of Jimmy.
She thinks of her father, and of her mother.
She thinks of all the women she has been, of all
the men. She thinks of the color of her skin, and
of Chicago streets, and of waterfalls and pines.
She thinks of moonlight nights, and of cool spring storms.
Her mind chatters like neon and northside bars.
She thinks of the 4 a.m. lonelinesses that have folded
her up like death, discordant, without logical and
beautiful conclusion. Her teeth break off at the edges.
She would speak.
The woman hangs from the 13th floor window crying for
the lost beauty of her own life. She sees the
sun falling west over the grey plane of Chicago.
She thinks she remembers listening to her own life
break loose, as she falls from the 13th floor
window on the east side of Chicago, or as she
climbs back up to claim herself again.
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mandag 27. juli 2009
torsdag 23. juli 2009
fredag 10. juli 2009
onsdag 1. juli 2009
Sørlandsbanen til besvær
For å være sikker på at hun kunne ha med seg den elektriske rullestolen sin på toget fra Oslo til Kristiansand, dro hun til Oslo S en uke før for å bestille billett “in person” - med stolen, selvfølgelig - og fikk på direkte spørsmål svar fra personalet der om at det ville gå helt fint med den stolen.
Selv avtalte jeg med Sørlandsruta reisen videre fra Kristiansand og hit til Lista, i god tid på forhånd naturligvis. De undersøkte - blide og velvillige som alltid - og fant ut at de ikke ville kunne sette henne av på holdeplassen her på Vere fordi det ikke er helt flatt og egnet utenfor her, men holdeplassen rett før Vere var grei. Kjempemessig!
Vi gledet oss begge to til frokoster på moloen, tur til fyret, til utstillinger, åpningen av det nye museet på Nordberg og besøk til kjente rundt her og til stranda og kanskje til og med et stykke innover hulveien!
Da dagen opprant - nå sist søndag - dro Anne-Ki i god tid til Oslo S, pakket og klar. Og så viste det seg altså at de ikke ville la henne bli med på toget likevel! Det var noe med en hendel som var i veien inne på toget der på Oslo S (og senere, i intervju med NSB kom det altså fram at avstigningen i Kristiansand også ville blitt umulig). Dette burde hun helt klart ha fått beskjed om allerede uka før da hun var der for å kjøpe billetten!
Ekspressbussene fra Oslo til Kristiansand tar ikke rullestol, punktum. Og fly må bestilles to uker i forveien. Så der satt Anne-Ki på Oslo S - og her satt jeg på Lista. Og kunne ikke annet.
Jo, vi kunne i det minste kontakte Dagbladet. Èn ting er jo at NSB først sa ok til stolen - og deretter, ved avreisen, brått: nei! En annen ting er jo at denne saken her har en langt større dimensjon som bør belyses.
I den første reportasjen som kom på dagbladet.no syns vi nok saken kom litt skeivt ut og ble framstilt noe mangelfullt. Forløpet kom ikke skikkelig fram, blant annet. Debatt-tråden under ble deretter. Ditto med debatten under reportasje nummer to.
Nå er det jo ikke sikkert at det hadde hjulpet med en skikkelig framstilling av saken, heller. Debatt-trådene i nettavisene er generelt fulle av fordommer og raske konklusjoner basert på uvitenhet samme hva for saker som det kjøres debatt på.
I dette tilfellet her, kom det flere fornuftige debatt-innlegg, men disse forsvant i mølja til fordel for de innleggene som fikk flest leserpoeng. Og akkurat disse innleggene som fikk flest leserpoeng er et sosiologisk studium verd!
Anne-Ki fikk et skriv av personalet på NSB etter at de hadde funnet ut at hun ikke kunne bli med toget likevel. Jeg kopierer det inn her:
“Funksjonshemmede på tog
For å være sikker på at NSB er i stand til å møte ditt behov, bør du bestille reisen senest dagen før du skal reise. Da kan også konduktøren varsles og være spesielt oppmerksom på at du kommer og sørge for at nødvendige hjelpemidler er på plass.
Alle nyere og moderniserte tog har godt utstyr for rullestolbrukere: Heis, handikaptoalett og festeanordninger for stolen. Eldre tog har tilgang på ramper og skinner slik at det er større behov for assistanse ved på- og avstigning. Enkelte tog har egen kupè med plass til ledsager. Ledsager med ledsagerbevis fra kommunen og honnørbevis reiser på honnørrabatt (50 prosent rabatt av ordinær pris for voksen billett).
Manuell bestilling
Motoriserte rullestoler
NB! Brukere av rullestoler som ikke tilfredsstiller disse kravene kan ikke forventes plass på NSBs tog og blir heller ikke tilbudt spesialtransport av NSB. Togene på Trønderbanen tar desverre ikke elektriske rullestoler ombord.”
Anne-Kis stol er innenfor målene og vekten (hva enten hun sitter i den eller ikke).
Legg forresten merke til setningen: “og blir heller ikke tilbudt spesialtransport av NSB.”
Nå er jo denne stolen til Anne-Ki hennes bein. Det er denne stolen som gjør at hun kan klare seg selv uten hjelp. Det er denne stolen som det går helt greit med på andre baner hun reiser med. Og det er denne stolen hun føler seg 100% trygg i. Det er ikke som om hun har en rullestol-park å velge i; det er denne stolen hun har. Punktum.
I dagens oppslag i Dagbladet får vi høre at det vil kunne ta 20-30 år før Anne-Ki kan få med seg beina sine på et kollektivt transportmiddel hit til Lista.
Om tre uker er det nøyaktig 40 år siden “one small step for man”…
På månen!
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