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"नृशंस लेखक / डेनियल बोर्ज़ुत्स्की / राजेश चन्द्र" के अवतरणों में अंतर

Kavita Kosh से
यहाँ जाएँ: भ्रमण, खोज
पंक्ति 106: पंक्ति 106:
 
“This is my last communiqué from the planet  
 
“This is my last communiqué from the planet  
 
of the monsters.”                                                                   
 
of the monsters.”                                                                   
                                  — Roberto Bolaño, Distant Star  
+
                      — Roberto Bolaño, Distant Star  
 +
 
 +
When I watched the Barbaric Writers defecate
 +
on my manuscript, I felt a great sense of relief,
 +
a great sense of fraternity with these men who
 +
loved literature enough to destroy it, and I recalled
 +
a poem I had once written, but never had the
 +
confidence to publish, about a so-called poet
 +
who shat himself into a toilet, only to float on his
 +
back as torrential downpours of power filled the
 +
bowl and drowned him. I have always know that
 +
constipation is essential to poetry, though what I
 +
did not realize, until recently, was that poetry itself
 +
is repulsive. Words on their own are bad enough.
 +
But when placed alongside other words, when
 +
formed into rhythmic lines and stanzas: no act of
 +
creation is more hideous. In the salons, I have often
 +
watched, before my turn came on, our local poets
 +
reciting their verses. They speak politely, and with
 +
grace, to an audience that sips wine and chuckles
 +
at the words that flow not from their mouths, but
 +
from their plugged-up behinds. What a holy mockery
 +
of literature!
  
When I watched the Barbaric Writers defecate on my
 
manuscript, I felt a great sense of relief, a great sense of
 
fraternity with these men who loved literature enough to
 
destroy it, and I recalled a poem I had once written, but
 
never had the confidence to publish, about a so-called
 
poet who shat himself into a toilet, only to float on his
 
back as torrential downpours of power filled the bowl and drowned
 
him. I have always know that constipation is essential to
 
poetry, though what I did not realize, until recently,
 
was that poetry itself is repulsive. Words on their own are
 
bad enough. But when placed alongside other words, when formed
 
into rhythmic lines and stanzas: no act of creation is more
 
hideous. In the salons, I have often watched, before my turn
 
came on, our local poets reciting their verses. They speak
 
politely, and with grace, to an audience that sips wine and
 
chuckles at the words that flow not from their mouths, but from their
 
plugged-up behinds. What a holy mockery of literature!
 
 
Were the barbarians to see such a spectacle, no
 
Were the barbarians to see such a spectacle, no
theater walls could stand the shock of their laughter. No, poetry
+
theater walls could stand the shock of their laughter.  
is not what I want. Only defecation on poetry. For
+
No, poetry is not what I want. Only defecation on  
after years of humiliation, I have finally learned that
+
poetry. For after years of humiliation, I have finally l
to humanize our poems, we must shit on them. We must shit
+
earned that to humanize our poems, we must shit on  
freely, with arms raised, as detectives in blue sport coats examine
+
them. We must shit freely, with arms raised, as detectives  
our feces for sustainability, all the while fighting
+
in blue sport coats examine our feces for sustainability,  
off other detectives in bluer sport coats who take our
+
all the while fighting off other detectives in bluer sport  
poetic leakage to their laboratories to search for
+
coats who take our poetic leakage to their laboratories  
parasitic demons, or diamonds, depending on the angle.
+
to search for parasitic demons, or diamonds, depending  
We smear what drips from our self-inflicted wounds onto our verses,
+
on the angle.We smear what drips from our self-inflicted  
combining blood and ink into new poetic forms in which we
+
wounds onto our verses, combining blood and ink  
rub our faces, the better to smell our disgusting children with,
+
into new poetic forms in which we rub our faces, the  
the better to drool on our disgusting children with; and once we
+
better to smell our disgusting children with, the better  
have bled and drooled and driveled, we declare our poems complete, the
+
to drool on our disgusting children with; and once we
better to wipe our asses with, before submitting them for
+
have bled and drooled and driveled, we declare our  
publication. We smear our typewriters with pus and semen, and
+
poems complete, the better to wipe our asses with,  
chastise any fool crass enough to declare himself a poet,
+
before submitting them for publication. We smear  
 +
our typewriters with pus and semen, and chastise  
 +
any fool crass enough to declare himself a poet,
 
an offense punishable by confinement in a cage
 
an offense punishable by confinement in a cage
surrounded by Barbaric Writers who expectorate between
+
surrounded by Barbaric Writers who expectorate  
the distinguished author’s eyes, his hands tied behind his back to
+
between the distinguished author’s eyes, his hands  
prevent him from cleaning his face. For poetry is hard work! It
+
tied behind his back to prevent him from cleaning his  
is hard to create such filthy, vile putrescence.
+
face. For poetry is hard work! It is hard to create such  
 +
filthy, vile putrescence.
 
</poem>
 
</poem>

03:02, 18 सितम्बर 2018 का अवतरण

 ‘‘दानवों के ग्रह से यह मेरा अन्तिम संवाद है।‘‘
                           — राबर्टो बोलानो, सुदूर तारा

यह देख कर कि नृशंस लेखकों ने
मल-त्याग कर दिया है मेरी पाण्डुलिपि पर,
मैंने काफ़ी राहत महसूस की
महसूस की एक गहरी अन्तरंगता
इन लोगों के साथ जिनका
प्रेम साहित्य के प्रति इतना पर्याप्त था
कि वे उसका सर्वनाश कर सकें।
मुझे याद आई वह कविता
जो कभी लिखी थी मैंने,
पर जिसे प्रकाशित करने का आत्मविश्वास
नहीं था मुझमें,
वह कविता एक कथित कवि के बारे में थी
जो बैठा करता था शौचालय में
केवल अपना पिछवाड़ा तर करने के लिए
ताकि बिजली की प्रचण्ड बौछार से
कटोरा भर जाए और वह उसमें उतराए।
मैं शुरू से जानता था कि कब्ज़
अत्याश्यक है कविता के लिए,
हालाँकि जो बात मैं नहीं समझ पाया था अब तक,
वह यह कि कविता ख़ुद भी घृणास्पद होती है।
उसके अपने शब्द ही मनहूस हुआ करते हैं पर्याप्त।
लेकिन जब रखा जाता है शब्दों को पास-पास,
जब उन्हें बाँध दिया जाता है लय-छन्दों में :
सृजन का कोई भी कर्म इतना घृणित नहीं होता।
संगोष्ठियों में अपनी बारी का इन्तज़ार करते
मैंने अक्सर देखा है अपने स्थानीय कवियों को
उनकी लयबद्ध कविताएँ पढ़ते हुए।
वे विनम्रतापूर्वक, कृपाकाँक्षी होकर
उन श्रोताओं के साथ सम्भाषण करते हैं
जो शराब की चुस्कियाँ लेते हुए
उन शब्दों पर ठिठियाते हैं
जो उनके मुखारविन्द से नहीं
बल्कि डाट निकले उनके पिछवाड़ों से
होकर निकलते प्रतीत होते हैं।
क्या ही पावन उपहास है यह साहित्य का !
अब भी मौज़ूद हैं ऐसे असभ्य लोग
जो सहन कर पाते हैं ऐसे तमाशों को,
किसी भी सभागार की दीवारें
नहीं सह सकतीं उनके ठहाकों का आघात।

नहीं, कविता वैसी नहीं, जैसी मेरी अपेक्षा थी।
केवल मलत्याग हो रहा है कविता में।
अपमान के इतने वर्षों बाद,
अन्ततः जान लिया है मैंने कि
अपनी कविताओं को मानवीय बनाना है
तो हमें मलत्याग करना ही पड़ेगा उन पर।
उन्मुक्त होकर मलत्याग करना होगा

अपने हाथों को उठाए हुए ऊपर की तरफ़
ताकि नीली पोशाक वाले जासूस
हमारे मल की जाँच कर सकें
पता लगा सकें उसके टिकाऊपन के बारे में,
जो दूसरे जुझारू जासूस हैं नीली पोशाकों में
वे अपनी प्रयोगशालाओं के लिये ले सकें
हमारे काव्यात्मक रिसाव और ढूँढ़ सकें
उनमें परजीवी पिशाचों अथवा हीरों को
जो कि निर्भर करता है नज़रिए पर।

हम लीप देते हैं उन बून्दों को
हमारे स्वारोपित घावों से
रिसती हैं जो हमारी कविताओं पर
रक्त और स्याही को मिलाते हुए
गढ़ लेते हैं एक नवीन काव्य-शैली जिसमें
घिस-घिस कर चमकाते हैं अपने चेहरों को,
ताकि उनसे सुवास आए हमारे घिनौने बच्चों को,
ताकि उन पर लार टपका सकें हमारे घिनौने बच्चे,
और एक बार जब पूरा हो जाए
हमारा रिसना, टपकना और बकबकाना
तो हम कर देते हैं ऐलान
अपनी कविता के मुकम्मल होने का,

अब वह बेहतर है हमारा पिछवाड़ा पोंछने के लिए,
इससे पहले कि चली जाए वह छपने के लिए।
हम पोत देते हैं अपने टाइपराइटर को
मवाद और वीर्य से
और पटाते हैं किसी वज्रमूर्ख को
कि घोषित कर दे वह हमें एक कवि,
किसी दण्डनीय अपराध के लिए
पिंजरे की कारा का बन्दी
घेराव में नृशंस लेखकों के
खँखार कर गला साफ़ करता हुआ
नज़रें चुराता हुआ प्रतिष्ठित साहित्यकारों से,
उसके हाथ बंधे हुए पीठ की तरफ़
ताकि वह साफ़ न कर पाए अपने चेहरे को।
क्योंकि कविता बड़ी मशक्कत का काम है!
बड़ा ही दुष्कर है ऐसा
कुत्सित, घृणित और बदबूदार सृजनकर्म।

अँग्रेज़ी से अनुवाद : राजेश चन्द्र

लीजिए, अब यही कविता मूल अँग्रेज़ी में पढ़िए
       
                        The Barbaric Writers
                     BY DANIEL BORZUTZKY
 
“This is my last communiqué from the planet
of the monsters.”
                      — Roberto Bolaño, Distant Star

When I watched the Barbaric Writers defecate
on my manuscript, I felt a great sense of relief,
a great sense of fraternity with these men who
loved literature enough to destroy it, and I recalled
a poem I had once written, but never had the
confidence to publish, about a so-called poet
who shat himself into a toilet, only to float on his
back as torrential downpours of power filled the
bowl and drowned him. I have always know that
constipation is essential to poetry, though what I
did not realize, until recently, was that poetry itself
is repulsive. Words on their own are bad enough.
But when placed alongside other words, when
formed into rhythmic lines and stanzas: no act of
creation is more hideous. In the salons, I have often
watched, before my turn came on, our local poets
reciting their verses. They speak politely, and with
grace, to an audience that sips wine and chuckles
at the words that flow not from their mouths, but
from their plugged-up behinds. What a holy mockery
of literature!

Were the barbarians to see such a spectacle, no
theater walls could stand the shock of their laughter.
No, poetry is not what I want. Only defecation on
poetry. For after years of humiliation, I have finally l
earned that to humanize our poems, we must shit on
them. We must shit freely, with arms raised, as detectives
in blue sport coats examine our feces for sustainability,
all the while fighting off other detectives in bluer sport
coats who take our poetic leakage to their laboratories
to search for parasitic demons, or diamonds, depending
on the angle.We smear what drips from our self-inflicted
wounds onto our verses, combining blood and ink
into new poetic forms in which we rub our faces, the
better to smell our disgusting children with, the better
to drool on our disgusting children with; and once we
have bled and drooled and driveled, we declare our
poems complete, the better to wipe our asses with,
before submitting them for publication. We smear
our typewriters with pus and semen, and chastise
any fool crass enough to declare himself a poet,
an offense punishable by confinement in a cage
surrounded by Barbaric Writers who expectorate
between the distinguished author’s eyes, his hands
tied behind his back to prevent him from cleaning his
face. For poetry is hard work! It is hard to create such
filthy, vile putrescence.