On the side of Jānis Rokpelņas. Latvian Radio Poetry Pageant meeting with a classicist / article

The seem of the initial Latvian Radio Poetry Competition was enriched by the poetry of Knut Skujenieks, and after once more, gathered in Cēsis, it is crucial that it is existing in the poem. When questioned if he experienced borrowed or learned nearly anything from Skujenieks, Jānis Rokpelnis denied that there was much. He proceeds:

“As a poet, I grew up in the metropolis exactly where I analyzed and where Joseph Brodsky came from – then Leningrad, the poetic subwaywherever there was “non-Soviet” poetry,

wherever folks wrote poems that dealt with aesthetic troubles but did not engage in the types that built up Soviet literature. Knuts Skujenieks arrived to this poem strangely, but logically, across the discipline. When his 1st publications appeared in the push, he definitely hit me in the head. He differed from the poetry of our greatest Latvian poets of the time, who opposed the routine otherwise, in the language of Aesop. It was a pure lyric that did not at all consider that there was any variety of Soviet pondering. Due to the fact Soviet literature was comprehended as an ideology, it was nicely paid, the most talented writers had been particularly held. This ideology was fought or subdued, but this was a absolutely independent poem. The late Vizma Belševica, Egils Plaudis, belonged to these poets. I belonged much too, due to the fact I grew up in the exact same land exactly where Josif Brodsky grew up. “

Jānis Rokpelnis remembers the e book he wrote about Knut Skujeniek – “Smagi urbjas tinte”: “It was designed as a consequence of lots of several hours of conversation. I had to demonstrate Knut five or 6 web pages prepared, which certainly made it difficult. I instructed him – explain your characteristics. He imagined for a long time. I say – in some cases you stay offended, but only for a moment, then you get about it. ”

Even nowadays, while composing poetry, Rokpelnis isolates himself from the encompassing poetry. When he feels, in his possess phrases, “calm”, the poet takes a few of textbooks to obtain “belzien” – texts by Osip Mandelštam and Knut Skujenieks, as effectively as a variety of “Latvju dainu” on character.

But what does a youthful author have to defend nowadays, when it would seem that there are no much more claws of energy from the outside the house? Rokpelnis replies, “There is an aged saying” tricky periods for modern society – good moments for poetry “(there is some thing to combat for). When looking at modern poetry, there are eternal challenges to battle against, shall we say, against. the inhumanity, which manifests by itself in the war in Ukraine, which is awful. In this in the everlasting debate, no matter if person is born very good or terrible, nonetheless shows that gentleman is born lousy “. The poet is also at war with his internal enemy, he adds.

“Instinct is significant in the creation of poetry, not calculation, creation. Only in this way can we pronounce the unspeakable, comprehend the invisible, what can only be viewed with the eyes of the spirit”,

suggests Jānis Rokpelnis, “Not for absolutely nothing is a poet and an artist in normal the weakest interpreter and explainer of his is effective”.

Jointly with Rokpelni, poetesses Daina Sirmā, Elīna Bākule-Veira and Marija Luīze Meļķe read through their will work at the Latvian Radio Poetry Pageant in Cēsis. Lauma Daugiša, the writer of the Cēsi “Harmonija” cultural society, also shares her strains. The historical union among audio and poetry is instead confirmed by the musician Klāvs Kalnačs.

The party took put on 2 September in Cēsis, in the “Mala” artwork space.

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