作者spacedunce5 (CJ)
看板poetry
标题[讨论] New Yorker的诗
时间Sun Jan 31 11:07:17 2010
我长久以来都不大了解刊在New Yorker上的诗,
总觉得除了偶尔献出特殊技巧之外,
多半都没什麽特色,或是保留太多东西 。
简言之,我看不懂。
想请教板上的各位,
特别转录最新期的诗。
Vijay Seshadri, Visiting Paris
They were in the scullery talking.
The meadow had to be sold to pay their riotous expenses;
then the woods by the river,
with its tangled banks and snags elbowing out of the water,
had to go; and then the summer house where they talked—
all that was left of an estate once so big
a man riding fast on a fast horse
couldn’t cross it in a day. Genevieve. Hortense. Meme.
The family’s last born, whose pale name is inscribed on the rolls
of the Field of the Cloth of Gold. As in the fresco of the Virgin,
where the copper in the pigment oxidizes to trace a thin green cicatrix
along a seam of Her red tunic,
a suspicion of one another furrowed their
consanguine, averted faces.
Why go anywhere at all when it rains like this,
when the trees are sloppy and hooded
and the foot sinks to the ankle in the muddy lane?
I didn’t stay for the end of the conversation.
I was wanted in Paris. Paris, astounded by my splendor
and charmed by my excitable manner,
waited to open its arms to me.
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1F:推 julians:it's about environmentalism and a crit 203.73.51.185 01/31 13:25
2F:→ julians:ique of Paris, renowned a city of love 203.73.51.185 01/31 13:25
3F:→ spacedunce5:could you be more specific?140.112.115.226 01/31 13:49
4F:推 julians:we usually take Paris as a city of love 203.73.51.185 01/31 14:49
5F:推 julians:and romance, perhaps of legend and mys 203.73.51.185 01/31 14:55
6F:→ julians:ticism. But there the lyrical speaker 203.73.51.185 01/31 14:55
7F:→ julians:talks of his/her own splender and charm 203.73.51.185 01/31 14:55
8F:→ julians:rather than the city in itself 203.73.51.185 01/31 14:55
9F:→ julians:Paris is distinguished not for itself 203.73.51.185 01/31 14:55
10F:→ julians:but for its relation to travellers. 203.73.51.185 01/31 14:56
11F:→ julians:Btw, I shouldn't say "environmentalism" 203.73.51.185 01/31 14:56
12F:→ julians:it's more about environment 203.73.51.185 01/31 14:56
13F:推 julians:这诗还蛮不错的阿. 要传达的意境跟意念都 203.73.51.185 01/31 15:04
14F:→ julians:很清楚,也没有什麽赘言,也没有刻意炫技 203.73.51.185 01/31 15:05
15F:→ julians:可是又写出了不一样的旅行巴黎的经验 203.73.51.185 01/31 15:05
16F:→ spacedunce5:so it's a portrait of the environ- 61.228.173.179 01/31 16:23
17F:→ spacedunce5:ment of . . . Paris? I can see the 61.228.173.179 01/31 16:23
18F:→ spacedunce5:poem is finely worked and economi- 61.228.173.179 01/31 16:24
19F:→ spacedunce5:cal in expression, I just don't get 61.228.173.179 01/31 16:24
20F:→ spacedunce5:what it's trying to express= = 61.228.173.179 01/31 16:24
21F:推 julians:against usual exp. of travel and memroy 203.73.51.185 01/31 16:57