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Herausgeber: Carcanet Classics
Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
Sprache: Englisch
Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

Dictator recreates Gilgamesh using the 1,500-word vocabulary of Globish, put together by Jean-Paul Nerrière. Globish is a business language, appropriate to translate cuneiform which emerged from the need to record business transactions. Nerrière considered it the world dialect of the third millenium; likewise Akkadian, the language of Gilgamesh, was the lingua franca of communications in the Near East. This link between script, language and business is there in the substance of the poem. An underpinning theme involving trade, here trade in hard wood and access to forests for building materials, links the poem to recent wars in and around Iraq, where the contemporary commodity is oil. This in turn links the poem to related issues such as migration and the refugee crisis. Working with refugees in Palermo in 2017, Terry was involved with putting on a puppet version of Gilgamesh where the children related viscerally to the story, particularly the boat scenes.

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PHILIP TERRY

DICTATOR

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to the editors of para-text and Shearsman magazine, where selections from the poem, in slightly different form, were published for the first time.

Title PageAcknowledgements Stone I Cut iStone I Cut iiStone I Cut iiiStone I Cut ivStone I Cut vStone I Cut vi Stone II Cut i [Damaged by fire]Stone II Cut iiStone II Cut iii [Beginning damaged]Stone II Cut iv [End damaged by building work]Stone II Cut v [End missing]Stone II Cut vi [Damaged] Stone III Cut iStone III Cut ii [End damaged]Stone III Cut iii [Bomb damage]Stone III Cut iv [Beginning damaged]Stone III Cut v [Damaged by fire]Stone III Cut vi [Part damaged by fire] Stone IV Cut I [Part flood damaged]Stone IV Cut ii [Completely missing or damaged]Stone IV Cut iii [Completely missing or damaged]Stone IV Cut iv [Completely missing or damaged]Stone IV Cut v [Part bomb damaged]Stone IV Cut vi [Part damaged by fire] Stone V Cut i [Part damaged by fire]Stone V Cut ii [Part bomb damaged]Stone V Cut iii [Beginning damaged]Stone V Cut iv [End damaged]Stone V Cut v [Damaged by fire]Stone V Cut vi [Damaged by fire] Stone VI Cut iStone VI Cut ii [Beginning damaged]Stone VI Cut iiiStone VI Cut ivStone VI Cut vStone VI Cut vi Stone VII Cut iStone VII Cut iiStone VII Cut iiiStone VII Cut ivStone VII Cut v [Badly flood damaged]Stone VII Cut vi Stone VIII Cut iStone VIII Cut iiStone VIII Cut iii [End damaged]Stone VIII Cut iv [Bomb damaged]Stone VIII Cut v [Bomb damaged]Stone VIII Cut vi [Completely missing or damaged] Stone IX Cut i [End damaged]Stone IX Cut ii [End damaged by building work]Stone IX Cut iii [Beginning and end missing]Stone IX Cut ivStone IX Cut vStone IX Cut vi [Damaged by flood] Stone X Cut iStone X Cut iiStone X Cut iiiStone X Cut iv [End damaged]Stone X Cut vStone X Cut vi [Beginning damaged] Stone XI Cut IStone XI Cut iiStone XI Cut iiiStone XI Cut ivStone XI Cut vStone XI Cut vi Stone XII Cut iStone XII Cut iiStone XII Cut iiiStone XII Cut ivStone XII Cut v [Fire damage]Stone XII Cut vi KeyAfterwordAbout the AuthorBy the Same AuthorCopyright

Dictator

Stone I Cut i

*see Stone XI

and cut | he work | in stone

Touch the | stone door | frame old | as the | mountain

take a | walk round | the top

Find the | metal | box full | of cut | stone + + +

slide op | en the | steel lock

… lift | the catch | that hold | the + + + | secret

Take out | the blue | stone and | read it | out loud

How DIC | TATOR | suffer | every | hard ship

He stand | in the | front like | a fear | less man

He march | at the | back as | a + + + | brother

He be | the great | wave that | break down | the wall

… DIC | TATOR | … the | blue print | of pow | er…

child of | + + + WILD | COW he | mother

He op | en the | mountain | pass…

dig the | deep well | on the | mountain | side…

build the | power | full rock | et…

+ + + fill | the land | again | with pe | ople + + +

DICTA | TOR DIC | TATOR

Be there | a man | like he | … an | y where?

Stone I Cut ii

Two part | of he | be god | one part | man + + +

*or ‘shape’

She give | to he | …… | ever | y gift

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

Then the | enem | y burn | + + + + + +

he peo | ple a | wake to | battle | noise + + +

+ + + day | and night | he make | the weak | suffer

The… | god hear | the cry

Then the | enem | y burn | + + + + + +

he peo | ple a | wake to | + + + bat | tle noise

Be this | the one | to lead | the peo | ple…

strong + + + | bright full | of wis | dom…?

When [the | sky god] | AN hear | the peo | ple cry

*or ‘opposite’

He feed | with the | wild horse | on grass

meet he | at the | + + + wa | ter hole

when he | see WILD | MAN he | body | freeze…

when he | see WILD | MAN he | hand freeze

when he | see WILD | MAN he | eye freeze

he heart | hurt + + + | he face | grow dark

The sad | thing en | ter he | heart…

Stone I Cut iii

… he | say to | he fat | her…

*or ‘army’

Out of | fear I | can not | go up | to he

he tear | out + + + | + + + the | trip wire | I fix

he help | the cat | return | to the | forest

… he | say to | CATCATCH

of big | city | of the | ani | mal noise

May he | who know | all give | you an | ear…

have the | woman | take off | she skirt

have the | woman | take off | she silk | shirt + + +

And so | he set | off to | find DIC | TATOR

He climb | the hill | and fol | low the | road sign

[to speak | to] DIC | TATOR | … the | big head

have the | woman | take off | she skirt

have the | + + + wo | man take | off she | silk shirt

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