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"Nužnost" putovanja, pronađeni zavičaj i Hvar (O lirskim zapisima Chestera V. Beersa)

SAŽETAK: U ovom radu autorica tumači izbor iz pjesničke zbirke "By the Express Desire" dosad nepoznatog američkog pjesnika hrvatskih korijena Chestera "Chesa" Beersa (rođen u Kaliforniji, 1947. ili 1948. - umro 1987.). Lirski zapisi Ch. Beersa ovdje se po prvi put podastiru javnosti, kako u engleskom izvorniku tako u hrvatskom prijevodu Sintije Čuljat. Ovdje motrena Beersova zbirka nikad nije objavljena. Stoga se njegov rukopis te iz njega u ovom radu navedeni zapisi imaju smatrati zaštićenim autorskim rukopisom. Beersovi zapisi tematski su vezani za njegovo ratno iskustvo, ali i za njegova putovanja Europom i Hrvatskom. Razvidna je u njima Beersova očaranost domovinom njegovih predaka, među ostalim i otokom Hvarom. ABSTRACT: In this paper, the autor deals with a collection of poems called "By Express Disorder" written by - up to now - an unknown American poet of Croatian roots - Chester V. "Ches" Beers (b.in California in 1947 or 1948 - d. 1987). (Beers' Croat grandparents from his mother's side immigrated to the USA in 1913.) He is the author who was born in California, and who lived the last years of his life in Oregon, or as he himself wrote: "he was de-californicized in order to become oregonicized". Since his early youth, Beers was a hundred percent disabled veteran of the Vietnam War ; at the age of twenty, in 1967, he was poisoned by inhaling the poisonous herbicide Agent Orange. The poems selected for this paper have been taken from Beers' collection of poems which was the result of "an insatiable desire to travel again". During the years of 1986 and 1987, Beers travelled through North America, Europe, and Croatia, recording his impressions in lyrical notes. Beers' collection, thematically connected to his own war-time experiences, but undoubltedly, also colored by a fascination (both positive and otherwise) with the homeland of his ancestors, has never been published in the United States of America, nor in Croatia, and poems selected for this occasion (from the granted manuscript of the collection) are presented and interpreted - offered for the first time ever to the public in the dominant translation from the English language, done by Sintija Čujat. That is why the lyrical notes of Ch. Beers presented in his collection "By Express Desire" and in this paper are considered to be the author's manuscript protected by copyrights.

Chester Beers; američki pjesnik; lirski zapisi; otok Hvar (Hrvatska); Sintija Čuljat

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