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更新:2021-01-01 10:12:24 作者:Molly Peacock, Anna Yin
诗人星子安娜和 莫莉·皮克(Molly Peacock)( 星子安娜提供)
Molly Peacock is a poet, biographer, essayist, and short fiction writer whose multi-genre literary life has taken her from New York City to Toronto, from poetry to prose, from words to words-and-pictures, and from lyric self-examination to curiosity about the lives of others. Her latest poetry collections are The Analyst and Cornucopia: New and Selected Poems. She is the founder of The Best Canadian Poetry Series and the co-founder of Poetry in Motion on New York’s subways and buses. Her poems appear in leading literary journals such as Poetry, The Malahat Review and The Hudson Review, and are anthologized in The Oxford Book of American Poetry. Author of a one-person play about poetry, The Shimmering Verge, she is working on Form with Feeling, a collection of essays.https://www.mollypeacock.org/
八年前应一些杂志的邀请,我开始翻译北美诗人的诗。我选择莫莉·皮克因为在加拿大诗人联盟年会上遇见几次。感觉她很有风度,很有魅力,受众人崇敬。在网上我找了几首认为适合翻译的,然后就和她联系。她很开心地授权。去年想把十年来的这些翻译结集成《镜子与窗户/Mirrors and Windows》,所以再次重译。所幸加拿大出版商GuernicaEditions 接受2021年出版。今年我们办了诗歌和翻译系列活动,专门邀请诗人和我探讨他们的诗以及我的翻译。这里想分享介绍一下。莫莉的诗活泼自如,热烈奔放,也带有强烈的思辨力,以个人陈述的角度展现着生命生活的真实原貌。
I love desire, the state of want and thought
of how to get; building a kingdom in a soul
requires desire. I love the things I've sought –
you in your beltless bathrobe, tongues of cash that loll
from my billfold – and love what I want: clothes,
houses, redemption. Can a new mauve suit
equal God? Oh no, desire is ranked. To lose
a loved pen is not like losing faith. Acute
desire for nut gateau is driven out by death,
but the cake on its plate has meaning,
even when love is endangered and nothing matters.
For my mother, health; for my sister, bereft,
wholeness. But why is desire suffering?
Because want leaves a world in tatters?
How else but in tatters should a world be?
A columned porch set high above a lake.
Here, take my money. A loved face in agony,
the spirit gone. Here, use my rags of love.
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