{"id":12865,"date":"2017-03-20T00:59:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T23:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manipogo.de\/?p=12865"},"modified":"2017-03-19T20:59:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T19:59:56","slug":"derek-walcott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manipogo.de\/?p=12865","title":{"rendered":"Derek Walcott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Walcott, der gro\u00dfe Poet der Karibik, ist mit 87 Jahren gestorben. Ich habe ihn gern zitiert, vorwiegend aus seinem Band <em>White Egrets<\/em> (2010), der mir immer noch unersch\u00f6pflich ist. Nun will ich ihm danken und ihm etwas nachrufen, darum ein Nachruf auf <em>manipogo<\/em>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Walcott war auch ein gro\u00dfer Liebender, obwohl er einr\u00e4umte, er habe seine Frauen schlecht behandelt, und eine habe er sogar durch seine unsinnige Eifersucht ins Grab gebracht. Er war ein karibischer Mann, immer unter Druck, seine M\u00e4nnlichkeit zu beweisen; seine Poesie war aber auch ein einziger Liebesbeweis, gerichtet an das Leben. (<em>Die Karibik-Bilder sind von J\u00fcrgen Kuntke, den ich nicht erreichen konnte; ich glaube aber, dass er nichts dagegen hat, diesen Beitrag zu illustrieren.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manipogo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG0014.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12866\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12866 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manipogo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG0014.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG0014\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manipogo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG0014.jpg 540w, https:\/\/manipogo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG0014-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Der eigene Tod ist nicht vorstellbar.<\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s what others do, not us, die, even the closest<br \/>\non a vainglorious, glorious morning, as the song goes,<br \/>\nthe yellow or golden palms glorious and all the rest<br \/>\na sparkling splendor, die. (\u2026) Love<br \/>\nlies underneath it all though, the more surprising<br \/>\nthe death, the deeper the love, the tougher the life.<br \/>\nThe pain is over, feathers close your eyelids, Oliver.<br \/>\nWhat a happy friend and what a fine wife!<br \/>\nYour death is like our friendship beginning over.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Das hat er Oliver Jackman gewidmet, der starb, aber, so schreibt Walcott, sterben tun nur die anderen, aber Liebe liegt allem zugrunde, der Schmerz verging \u2026 \u00bbDein Tod ist so, als finge unsere Freundschaft neu an.\u00ab Viele seiner Freunde waren gestorben, Walcott f\u00fchlte sich allein.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Quick, quick, before they all die \u2026<br \/>\n<\/em><em>I must clear the house of my head, I must make room<br \/>\nfor a shrine before they all die, with fireflies and starlight. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ja, einen Schrein erstellen f\u00fcr die, die sterben werden, einen Schrein mit Leuchtk\u00e4fern und Sternenlicht.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manipogo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG0297.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12867\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12867\" src=\"https:\/\/manipogo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG0297.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG0297\" width=\"540\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manipogo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG0297.jpg 540w, https:\/\/manipogo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG0297-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aber dann, die M\u00e4dchen, die ewige Lockung \u2026 aber sie laufen ja immer nur vorbei, die Qual nimmt kein Ende. Schwatzende M\u00e4dchen, die fr\u00fchreifen Sirenen, und eine bleibt auf Capri stehen an einer T\u00fcr, Proserpina (die Toteng\u00f6ttin) am Eingang zum Fr\u00fchling, und in Amsterdam gleiten M\u00e4dchen auf R\u00e4dern vor\u00fcber.<\/p>\n<p><em>By the open-air table where I sat alone<br \/>\na flock of chattering girls passed, premature sirens<br \/>\nfleeing like pipers from the sudden thought of a stone. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Capri:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026 and the women, the women! Hard to<br \/>\nsee them as that only, that one, for instance,<br \/>\npaused at a shop door in shades, at a glance,<br \/>\njust a tanned girl or Proserpine at spring\u2019s portal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Amsterdam, wo er an seine Mutter denkt, Alix Marlin, eine junge Witwe:<\/p>\n<p><em>I feel something ending here and something begun,<br \/>\nthe light strong leaves, the water muttering in \u2018Dutch,<br \/>\nthe girls going by on bicycles in the sun.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Und \u00fcberhaupt, <em>all hallowed<\/em>, alles heilig:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026 flute-thin Paola, Christina, Patricia,<br \/>\nVanni, with their own books now; but if there is a form<br \/>\nmy muse would take, don\u2019t let this hurt her \u2013 it is<br \/>\nstorm-haired, full-lipped, with axe-blade cheeks: Roberta. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wie sie, wie Roberta, sturmhaarig und volllippig, sollte die Muse von Derek Walcott aussehen, und so ist das mit Lyrikern (zu denen ich auch geh\u00f6re): Sie m\u00fcssen immer von sich sprechen und gr\u00fcbeln herum, und der Dichter der Karibik redete sich gut zu:<\/p>\n<p><em>Be happy now at Cap, for the simplest joys \u2015<br \/>\n\u2026 let the torn poems sail from you like a flock<br \/>\nof white egrets in a long last sigh of release. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manipogo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG0012.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12868\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12868\" src=\"https:\/\/manipogo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG0012.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG0012\" width=\"540\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manipogo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG0012.jpg 540w, https:\/\/manipogo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG0012-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Der letzte Seufzer der Befreiung. Dann war er da. Und f\u00fcr mich bleibt die Hoffnung, es zu erreichen, dass meine <em>manipogo<\/em>-Prosa manchmal nach einem Regenguss riecht, der aus den H\u00fcgeln Jamaikas auf hei\u00dfen Asphalt f\u00e4llt, in Walcotts Vorstellung. Dass sie<\/p>\n<p><em>has the sudden smell of a gusts of slanted rain<br \/>\non scorching asphalt from the hazed hills of Jamaica. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Weitere Beitr\u00e4ge mit Gedichtausz\u00fcgen von Derek Walcott:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/manipogo.de\/?p=2330\" target=\"_blank\">Happier than any man<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/manipogo.de\/?p=8268\" target=\"_blank\">Flugverkehr (36): Reiher<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/manipogo.de\/?p=10308\" target=\"_blank\">Flugverkehr (49): ausgestopfte V\u00f6gel<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/manipogo.de\/?p=12306\" target=\"_blank\">Flugverkehr (64): der Kormoran und anderes Gefieder;<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/manipogo.de\/?p=12615\" target=\"_blank\">Venedig bei Nacht<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manipogo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG0216.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12869\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12869\" src=\"https:\/\/manipogo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG0216.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG0216\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manipogo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG0216.jpg 540w, https:\/\/manipogo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG0216-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Walcott, der gro\u00dfe Poet der Karibik, ist mit 87 Jahren gestorben. Ich habe ihn gern zitiert, vorwiegend aus seinem Band White Egrets (2010), der mir immer noch unersch\u00f6pflich ist. Nun will ich ihm danken und ihm etwas nachrufen, darum ein Nachruf auf manipogo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1224],"tags":[1336,36],"class_list":["post-12865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literatur","tag-karibik","tag-poesie"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Derek Walcott - manipogo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/manipogo.de\/?p=12865\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Derek Walcott - manipogo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Derek Walcott, der gro\u00dfe Poet der Karibik, ist mit 87 Jahren gestorben. 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