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TA'A KRAMBERGER
Transloted from the Slovenion by Spelo Drnovi,ek Zorko

Every dead one has a name

Every dead one has a name,

only the names of the living make us falter.
Some names are impossible to utter
without a stammer and a fidget,
some can only be spoken
through allusion,
and some, mostly women's,
are forbidden in these parts.

Every dead one has a name,

engraved in stone,
printed in obituary or directory,
but my name must be undermined,
every few years
soiled and substituted
with another one.

A decade ago
a high-ranking party official warned me:
Stay a poet, as long as there's still time.
Still time? Time for what?

I have also become a social scientist

and an editor and an organiser
and a translator and an activist
and a university teacher.
Unbearable - all these things -
all trespasses of the old parcel borders
that were drawn by the dirty
fingers of fraternities.

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I air all the rooms,
I ignore all the ratings,
I open all the valvelets'

And theY have Put me out in the

cold -
like the dead.
But everY dead one has a name'
 Young Artist of the year for Literature in 2005 and received the
singapore youth Award in ro. ari, and culture. a ror.,ai.,g
2007
director of The Literary-Centre in
Singapore, he is also managing
editor of an inrernarionally cir-culat.a
pu6ti. policy journal. His pub_
lications include Cit.y of Rar.n (2003),
Oirl, inir* ir;*, i;;;;;r;;r*
and Ausrraria (co-edited with
John'Kins.ttr, zoos; and Turnasik: con-
te.nplrary writing from singapore (usA,
2009). His latest aoo* 1" it
*
tlt,e Barbarians Arrit-te, a volume oirr"*
and selected poems, from Arc
in the UK' ffi 'when the Barbarianr Ar.i;;, from when
the Barbarians
Arrit'e (Arc publications, 2012),by p.._irrio.,
of the publisher.

ss"ffiEr&${r&
KATARINA KUCBELOYA
Born in 197g in Bansk' Bystrica,
Katarina Kucbelov6 is considered
be one of Srovakia's best young poets. t.
She obtained an MA in screen_
writing at the Academy of Dramatic
Art, Bratrslaua, and works as a
cultural manager. She has published
t*o ioot , of poetry, Duak (2003)
and Sport (2006), and the long poem
she founded - and is al"o director
t;ri, Arg City (200g). In 2006
of_1t.-pr.rtigious Slovak literary
award for fiction, Anasoft Litera.
A setectioi or i., *ort L ir.i"o"o
the Al anthology A Fine Line: w*
f
Eu*pe (2004). She lives in Bratislava.
iiri t*m Eastern and Centrat
m Er-,rr.t trom Li*le Big city
by permission of the author.

sL*wtrru*&
TAJA KRAMBERGER
Taja Kramberger was born in Ljubljana,
Slovenia in 1970. She is a
poet, transrator, essayist and historical
anihroporogist. She has a phD
in,historical anthroporogy from the
Editor-in-Chief of Monitor ISH_Ret:iew
urir*;;y of primorska. she is
of Humanhres ad Social Sciences
(2001-03), in 2004 retitred Monitor
zs2-Rr;;r, for Historicar, sociar
and Other Anthropologies (2004_10). ft..
n.rt iook of poems, .Marzipan,
was released in 1997, ril:!.
has since published eight further
collec_
tions: The Sea Says in ,fr. C.._r*frrgu age Counter_current in
a collectors, edition in ^1999;
2002; in 2004, UoUi;rit;orr, in
four h;;;;;;
The Velztet Intligo in 2004; Eoeryttay
i_ru, i" IOOO; Opus quinque dierum
in 2009; a book of blackout poetry
from the constitution of the Republic
of Slovenia; and in 2011, Frorn il,e
Aage of a Ctrff.Her work has been
translated into several European
t"rrg.;g..r. #'.Er.r, dead one has a
name' tr. Spela Drnoviek Zorko frJ^Z
,om ttr|n (CSK, Ljubljana,
20ll), by permission of the author.

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