Tentang Candu Dan Ingatan, Trauma dan Sejarah Dalam Sajak-Sajak Paul Celan

Pikiran Rakyat, 31 Mei 2009

Oleh Sulaiman Djaya ( Penggiat Kubah Budaya Serang Banten dan Forum Mahasiswa Ciputat)

Sang kata, pada siapa kau pamit, menyambutmu di gerbang.
Dan yang telah menyentuhmu di sini –tangkai, kalbu, bunga –
di sana telah lama jadi tamu dan tak bakal lagi menyentuhmu

(Paul Celan, Die Feste Burg).

Look not upon me, because I am black,
my mother children were angry with me;
they made me the keeper of the vineyards;
but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Tell me, O, thou my soul loveth, where thou feedest,
where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon;
For why should I be as one that turneth aside
by thy flocks of thy companions? /
I have compared thee, O, my love,
to a company of horses in Pharao’s chariots

(Song of Songs).