▲ Odilon Redon
Underwater Vision (c. 1910)
对一则报道的转述
毛子
唐纳尔，一个普通的美国公民
在9・11，他失去了怀孕六个月的女儿
时隔十一年后的一个五月
民众涌上街头，欢庆本・拉登被击毙
只有唐纳尔呆在家里，和家人一起
静静消化这个消息
他无法高兴起来，他说
──“我们不是一个会庆祝死亡的家庭
不管死的是谁。”
Retelling a Newspaper
Maozi
Donnall, an ordinary American citizen
Lost his daughter, sixth months’ pregnant on 9/11
In May eleven years later
People flocked to the streets to celebrate the killing of Osama bin Laden
Only Donnall stayed at home with his family
Digesting the news quietly
He couldn’t be happy, he said
“We are not a family that celebrates death
No matter who dies.”
translated by Matt Turner & Haiying Weng
夜晚
毛子
吉尔伯特死了。
他诗歌中出现的那些人，也不在世了。
他们中有大名鼎鼎的金斯堡、布罗茨基
更有他心爱的美智子……
想想一代一代的人，在这个世界上留下欢笑
最后黯然的谢幕
就觉得时间是多么的好多么的软又多么的
不容商量。
而现在是午夜，我把你搭在身上的手
轻轻握住。
我感到我还拥有，他们曾拥有的东西。
Night
Maozi
Gilbert is dead.
Those who appear in his poems are no longer living.
Among them are not only the famous Ginsberg and Brodsky
But also his beloved Michiko...
Think of the generations of people that leave laughter in the world
The final gloomy curtain call
When you think about it you feel how good and how soft but also
How non-negotiable it is.
And now that it’s midnight, I gently hold its hand
Hanging over me.
I feel like I still have what they once had.
translated by Matt Turner & Haiying Weng
那从庸常中升起的……
毛子
果皮箱的语言
胜过首饰盒的语言。
地动仪
胜过地球仪。
从灵魂里转身，巴塔耶凝视
粪便和一切排泄之物。
他视乎要从这确凿的证据中
建立人的哲学……
诗歌也是从这作呕的基础中
升起的。就像吉尔伯特
回忆少年的小镇。
一个发疯的老女人，整日的狂躁、咆哮
当他有一次路过，发现她撅起屁股
在草丛里安静撒尿。
那一刻，他为我们奉献出
一个丑陋的圣母。
Those that Rise from Mediocrity
Maozi
The language of the trash can
Is better than the language of jewelry displays.
A seismograph
Is better than a globe.
Turning away from the soul, Bataille gazed
At shit, at excrement.
He seems to have established a human philosophy
draw from hard evidence...
Poetry also rises from this condition
Of nausea, like Gilbert’s
Memories of a town from his youth.
A mad old woman, howling hysterical
He passed once, and saw her ass-out
Pissing quietly in the grass.
At that moment, he dedicated to us
An ugly Virgin Mother.
translated by Matt Turner & Haiying Weng
此刻荐读
韩东丨多年以后 她一定学会了生活
杨键丨一柄剑的沉默犹如聆听圣歌
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