We recently added a new work by Aleksander Korotko “Behind the fortress wall of winter…” to the Poetry section of the website.
Read the original poems here:
https://korotko-poetry.com/ru/za-krepostnoj-stenoj-zimy-2
Almost immediately after Korotko published the poems on his Facebook page, the text was translated into Polish and Hebrew.
* * *
Za forteczną
ścianą
zimy Wojna dojrzała – taka nagroda.
Na tym
pogranicznym
pasie,
w kazamatach
pamięci o Kraju my Wszyscy
podobni
do siebie.
Tutaj marzenia bez skóry i dni
morderczych
zasadzka.
The author of the translation is professor Andrzej Wicher.
אולכסנדר קורוטקותרגום מאוקראינית: אנטון פפרני* * *מעבר לחומהבצורהשל חורףהמלחמהבָּגְרָה –זהוהגמול.על קוהגבולהזהבתא העינוייםשל זכר המולדתדומיםמאודכולנוזה לזהכאן חלומותבלי עורובלי ימים קטלנייםשל פעימת הלב.המילה שפירושה תא עינויים עשויה לשמש (בהשאלה) באשר הוא
Translated by Anton Paperny, who has been translating poetry into Hebrew for 30 years. The editor of the text is Moshe Menasheof, a professor of literature in Israel.
We are also publishing the Ukrainian translation, performed by Olga Ilchuk, who has been translating Korotko‘s works into Ukrainian constantly for many years.
* * * Pre-war summer of booksellers. Time has passed, and a happy life has…
The long, lonely streets of time - manic and tragic with chimes with chimes beating…
* * * Prediction as prayer - white magic rebellion over the madness of black…
Is it possible to know oneself to such depths where the light of knowledge of…
* * * Fraternisation of the Third Rome with the second Babylon-- Sodom and Gomorrah.…
Destiny, change the record. Our traitor boys have enough black things to do without you.…