Italiaanse is nieuwe campusdichter

Onze nieuwe campusdichter is een Italiaanse promovenda, Chiara Raucea. Afgelopen donderdag werd ze gekozen uit zeven kandidaten, tijdens de jaarlijkse Poetry Party in Tilbury’s.

Gedurende de avond droegen alle kandidaten twee gedichten voor. Dit jaar stuurde ongeveer de helft zijn gedichten in het Engels in. The jury prees Chiara’s voordracht en haar onderwerpkeuze. Het komende jaar zal Chiara haar gedichten in Univers publiceren en zal ze voordragen op evenementen van Academic Forum.

Chiara is PhD-student bij Tilburg Law School. Ze onderzoekt de conceptuele relatie tussen burgerstatus en burgerrechten. Over hoe ze haar leven leidt met aan de ene kant Italië en aan de andere kant Nederland, schreef ze het volgende gedicht:

PRAY FOR RAIN

I was born in a cave,
Numbly.
Carved
on the rocky walls:
bites of bitter care
flavoured
of almonds
and sweet shame.

I was born, I left, I came back (you are right) but I left, again.

There is nothing new under the sun.

Here the weather is really good,
In winter too,
Here folks are jobless,
And smiling hopeless,
And tired,
And silently worried
but the weather is really good.

There is nothing new under the sun.
Children do not grow up,
They grow old.
But the weather is really good.

Here you can work without wage,
You can eat without hunger,
You can marry without love,
You can hate without rage.

But the weather is really good.

There is nothing new under the sun.

Here you can talk about nothing,
or about the weather: ‘cause the weather is really good!
You can even ask big questions
(about somebody else’s life)
and if you don’t have any answer on your own,
you can always enjoy the weather,
‘cause, here, the weather is really good!

There is nothing new under the sun.

Since it may sound a bit impolite,
I would recommend you not to ask, in public,
how offices are distributed in the city hall!
There are other things that matter:
for example, to kill the time, we can embroider private lives:
firstly, let’s add some spicy details to your neighbour’s bedroom
and, then, please, show off at the Sunday mass
the strange foreigner
with whom you share your most secret holes.
There is such a nice lovely weather…
You can stay with us…
…if a sunny day is all you are looking for!
Here the weather is really good.

There is nothing new under the sun.
Do you want have children?

Sometimes, I love when, in Tilburg, it rains all day long.

Leer Chiara beter kennen in het volgende nummer van Univers!

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