{"id":30002,"date":"2018-06-10T09:49:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T13:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=30002"},"modified":"2018-06-10T09:49:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T13:49:13","slug":"speaking-of-hans-magnus-enzenberger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/06\/speaking-of-hans-magnus-enzenberger.html","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Hans Magnus Enzenberger . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

His poem “last will and testament”<\/em>  begins: “get your flag out of my face, it tickles!” Jerome Rothenberg’s appealing translation from the German continues:
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger<\/font><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

and get that tinny wreath off my chest, it’s rattling too much;
\ntoss it over with the statues on the garbage heap,
\nand give the ribbon to some biddies to doll themselves up with.<\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The poem goes on in that fed-up vein for another 15 lines and ends like this:<\/p>\n

as for the resurrection of the flesh however and life everlasting
\ni will, if it’s all the same to you, take care of that on my own;
\nit’s my affair, after all. live and be well!<\/p>\n

here’s a couple of butts left on the dresser.<\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s hard to beat the mockingly humorous flavor of that poem with its hint of Yiddish in Rothenberg\u2019s rendering. Now for another tone \u2014 the elegiac without a hint of the lyrical, which would have been a violation \u2014 in \u201cThe Vanished.\u201d Dedicated to Nelly Sachs, who fled Nazi Germany and whose body of writings was suffused by the Holocaust, \u201cThe Vanished\u201d surely signals for its translator, Rita Dove, another kind of holocaust, the centuries-long American holocaust of black slavery. <\/p>\n

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Script text \u00a9 by Gerard Bellaart. (Click to enlarge.)<\/a><\/font><\/p><\/div>

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Translated by Rita Dove. (Click to enlarge.)<\/a><\/font><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

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