Podaci o pjesniku

iz knjige Stihom kroz život (2010.)

Particulars of the Poet

from the book Through Life in Verse (2010)

Da biste me upoznalii o meni nešto znali,reći ću vam ime mojei podatke dati svoje.Ivan Benak mi je ime,pjesnik koji piše rime.Ulica se pisat mora -Pejačević slavna Dora,ako netko me potraži,moje kuće broj pet važi.Još dodajte mjesto moje,znajte, slavno Valpovo je.A telefon stalno vrijedan:nula trideset jedan,šesto pedeset dva,osamsto dvadeset jedan.Ja ne skrbim kruh u znoju,mirovinu imam svoju.I kućicu svoju imam,pa u noći divno snivam,preko dana u njoj dišemi tu svoje pjesme pišem.Mnoge pjesme rimovao,šest knjiga vam darovao,Tri su knjige razne teme,tri za djecu, bez dileme.Sedam pjesama uglazbljeno,tamburicom izvezeno.Eto, to sam ja uživo,iz Valpova pjesnik Ivo!

So that you may know me better,learn about me to the letter,I will give my name to youand my personal details too.Ivan Benak is my name,poet: rhyming is my aim.Then my street you must write down:Dora Pejačević of renown;should somebody come to seek me,number five is where you'll meet me.Add my town, that you may know:it's the famous Valpovo.And the phone, a trusty one:zero thirty-one,six hundred fifty-two,eight hundred twenty-one.I no longer sweat for bread,I've my pension now instead.And my little house is mine,where at night I dream so fine;there by day I breathe and dwell,there I write my poems as well.Many poems I made rhyme,six books gave you in my time:three books, themes of every kind,three for children, you will find.Seven of my poems sing,stitched on tamburica string.There you have me, head to toe:Ivo, poet of Valpovo!

Valpovo, 14.02.2006.

Valpovo, February 14, 2006

Telefonski broj iz pjesme više nije u upotrebi.

The phone number in this poem is no longer in use.

Translator's note. Dora Pejačević (1885–1923), of the noble Pejačević family of Našice, was Croatia's first great woman composer; his street in Valpovo bears her name. The address and phone number were really his.