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December Moon
by Brenda Hillman
Oak moon, reed moon—
our friend called;
she was telling the pain
what to think.
I said Look. If you
relax you'll get better.
Better? who wants better,
said a moonbeam
under the wire,
the soul is light's
hypotenuse; the lily's
logic is frozen fire—
Suppose you are the secret
of the shore—a strong wave
lying on its side—
you'd come to earth again
(as if joy's understudy
would appear) & you
could live one more bold
day without meaning to,
afresh, on winter's piney floor;
you say, I've been
to the door & wept;
it says, what door
十二月的月亮
布伦达·希尔曼
橡木月亮,芦苇月亮——
朋友彷徨地称呼着
她缓缓地对我诉说
思念的悲苦
我说:你看
休息一下
就会好起来
好起来?谁想好起来
在金属丝下
月光说
灵魂是光的
弦,百合花的
思想是冰冻的火焰——
猜测你是岸之谜
——一股强浪
在它身边翻起
呵!再次来到这世界
(仿佛出现了一个欢乐的
替代品),而你
会活在再次的勇敢中
无聊的日子流着
直到重新倒影在冬日
那似松的地板上
你说,我已
来到门旁,哭泣着
它说,什么门
宛城卧龙译于2010年12月6日上午11时
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Brenda Hillman
Brenda Hillman was born in Tucson, Arizona, in 1951. She was educated at Pomona College and received her M.F.A. at the University of Iowa. Her upbringing in a deeply religious Baptist family surfaces in many of her poems, especially in Loose Sugar and the California mission poems of Cascadia.
She is the author of Practical Water (Wesleyan University Press, 2010); Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005); Cascadia (2001); Loose Sugar (1997), which was a finalist for National Book Critic's Circle; Bright Existence (1993), a finalist for Pulitzer Prize; Death Tractates (1992); Fortress (1989); and White Dress (1985). Her poems have also been collected in three chapbooks: The Firecage (2000); Autumn Sojourn (1995); and Coffee, 3 A.M. (1982).
Her work has been called eclectic, mercurial, sensuous, and luminescent. In an interview in Rain Taxi, Hillman said "It is impossible to put boundaries on your words, even if you make a poem. Each word is a maze. So you are full of desire to make a memorable thing and have the form be very dictated by some way that it has to be. But the poem itself is going to undo that intention. It's almost like you're knitting a sweater and something is unraveling it on the other end."
Hillman is also the co-editor, along with Patricia Dienstfrey, of The Grand Permisson: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (Wesleyan University Press, 2003), and the editor of a collection of Emily Dickinson's poems published by Shambhala Press in 1995.
She has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America, along with a Bay Area Book Reviewer's Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award.
Hillman has taught at the Napa Valley Writer’s Conference and the University of California, Berkeley. She holds the Olivia Filippi Chair in Poetry at St. Mary's College in Moraga, California, and lives in the Bay Area with her husband, the poet Robert Hass.
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