诗人简介风欢乐( Joy Harjo,1951)1976年毕业于美国新墨西哥大学诗歌创作专业,获学士学位,先后在印第安艺术学院、阿里桑那州立大学、科罗拉多大学和新墨西哥大学任教。风欢乐是位多才多艺的印第安女性诗人,不仅从事诗歌创作,还担任乐队的萨克斯管乐手,并在多部文学评论期刊担任编辑。现已出版诗集、散文集及儿童文学作品12部,其中《在疯狂的爱与战争之间》曾获美国图书奖。曾获美洲土著作家终身成就奖、华莱士史蒂文斯奖、奥克拉荷马图书奖等多个奖项及美国杰出青年妇女称号。其诗歌作品越来越受美国和世界各地评论家和读者的关注。在美国的大学课堂,也频频出现其诗歌导读和赏析的课程。
译者简介迟欣,中国民航大学外国语学院青年教授、文学博士。2012年曾去美国名校加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)英语系做访问学者,对美国文学和文化做实地考察。研究领域为美国诗歌与比较文学,尤其专注于美国当代诗歌的研究。曾主持国家教育部、天津市社科基金等课题多个,同时系多项省部级课题的参与人。发表论文20余篇,包括北大核心刊物。出版专著《中西合璧,古今交融-肯尼斯雷克斯罗斯诗歌创作研究》。并曾参与翻译专业资格(水平)考试(CATTI)阅卷等工作。
目錄:
Preface Ⅰ
To Readers Ⅷ
From How We Became Human, New and Selected
Poems 19752001
Equinox 002
No 004
Evening Song or No Huli 008
Its Raining in Honolulu 010
Watching Crow, Looking South Towards the
Manzano Mountains 012
From In Mad Love and War
Eagle Song 016
Rainy Dawn 020
Grace 022
Bird 026
From The Woman Who Fell From the Sky
Perhaps the Word Ends Here 032
Creation Story 036
A Postcolonial Tale 040
From She Had Some Horses
She Had Some Horses 046
Remember
052
Anchorage 056
The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor
Window 062
I Give You Back 070
From Secrets from the Center of the World
My House Is the Red Earth 078
From A Map to the Next World
Emergence 082
Songline of Dawn 086
This Is My Heart 090
Morning Song 094
From Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings
This Morning I Pray for My Enemies 098
Once the World Was Perfect 100
Spirit Walking in the Tundra 104
The First Day without a Mother 108
In Mystic 112
Suicide Watch 116
Speaking Tree 122
Sunrise
128
Do Not Feed the Monster 130
Conflict Resolution for Holy Being 132
New Poem
An American Sunrise 152
Joy Harjo
154
Joy Harjos Work List 162
译者序 Ⅰ
致读者 ⅠⅩ
This Morning I Pray for My Enemies
And whom do I call my enemy?An enemy must be worthy of engagement.I turn in the direction of the sun and keep walking.Its the heart that asks the question, not my furious mind.The heart is the smaller cousin of the sun.It sees and knows everything.It hears the gnashing even as it hears the blessing.The door to the mind should only open from the heart.An enemy who gets in, risks the danger of becoming a friend.
清晨,我为我的敌人祈祷
我把谁唤作敌人?敌人一定要与我旗鼓相当。我朝着太阳的方向前进,永不停歇。问题盘旋于心底,而非被怒气冲昏的脑海。心脏是太阳的小表弟。它洞悉一切。它听到了咬牙切齿的怒气,也听到了祝福。智慧的大门只能从心底打开。敌人闯了进来,冒着成为朋友的风险。