【赫列勃尼科夫诗选】

俄国诗人。俄国未来主义流派的创始人之一。1912年前后与马雅可夫斯基相识。两人成为未来主义流派的核心人物。所作诗歌通过其语言实验和驾驭词汇的熟练技巧,达到一种奇妙的效果。大多数诗歌成于漫游生活中。后因患斑疹伤寒和饥饿病死在从波斯返回俄国途中。
Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922)
Translated from Russian by Alex Cigale
The female clouds
drifted weeping
Above the highest valleys’ valleys
The female clouds were slinging hay
Above the saddest valleys’ valleys
The female clouds were dripping hay
Above the saddest valleys’ valleys
The female clouds drifting wailed
Above the highest valleys’ valleys
March 1908
***
A monster
inhabits mountain’s high
And has a terrifying bottom.
It’s grabbed a girl carrying a pot
And flashes her a comely smile.
And she is ready to drop just like
a fruit in his paws like hairy branches.
The monster is as a monster looks.
Self-satisfied it scratches its haunches.
1908-1909
***
The elephants so
tangled their tusks
They seemed a single white stone
Under the painter’s arm.
The deer so mingled their antlers
They seemed to join in an ancient contract
With mutual interests and mutual distrusts.
The rivers so drained into the sea it seemed
the arms of one were strangling the other.
1910-1911
***
Today I will
again venture
there, into life, trade, the bazaar,
And lead an army of songs
Alone against the market’s blare.
1914
***
Property is a
great thing!
It is a meeting place
For me and the state.
The state reminds me
That it exists!
Spring 1922
VELIMIR
KHLEBNIKOV(1885-1922)
Oh Dostoyevskyan running clouds!
Oh midday’s fiery Pushkin-notes!
La nuit appears, just like Tyutchev,
Infinite, with other-worldly over-filled.1908-1909
People!
Let’s drown enmity in sun’s light!
They walk in raincoats of silent stars – I wait –
Brave intentions’ children,
Brave reasons’ sons.1921
So pleasant to see
a little out-of-breath mermaid
who’d crawled from the forest
diligently erasing
with the dough of white bread
the law of universal attraction!Early 1922
There is that smell of honey-clover flowers
Among the forget-me-nots
In which I am
My distracted strict intelligence
The square root of negative one
Melts the division’s dots
Relating that which was
Toward what will be.
At stake.Early 1922
The sun's rays in the dark eye
of an ox
and on the wing of a blue fly,
like a wedding's line dance,
that streaked past above him.Spring 1922