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本帖最后由 雨荷风 于 2015-10-8 00:52 编辑
On Upnor Road by Elizabeth Spires
Set back from the street behind a stand of trees,
a shuttered house unnoticed by casual passers-by,
where I see you standing in the middle of your life,
poised to enter a summer evening where there will be
drinks and then a meal on an old stone terrace,
and it will seem, as the glass of wine is lifted to your lips,
that no one you know will ever have to die.
All this, of course, has already happened, happened
many times, never to happen again. In that faraway dark,
two voices softly braid themselves into one murmuring
conversation, but words spoken so long ago
want to be private. I would not imagine it otherwise.
Unasked, I have entered a memory I was never part of,
and come face to face with love's leisurely vanished pace.
Everything's changed. The new owner's cut down trees,
cleared decades of overgrowth to let the light in, and anyone
passing right now will only see what the too-bright
present wants them to see: a gracious forthright house,
empty of meaning, sitting overexposed in spring sunlight.
---- from the Academy of American Poets (Dec. 16, 2010)
阿泊诺尔路上(美)伊丽莎白•史派斯
翻译:晚枫
远离街道,一排树的背后,
一栋百叶窗遮住的房子,毫不惹眼,
我看到你站在生命的中间,
泰然地走进夏季的黄昏,那里会有,
美酒还有旧石台上的晚餐,
更有,似乎当那酒杯举至你的唇边,
你熟知的人便都不会升天。
这一切当然都已发生,而且发生过
多次,不会再发生了。遥远的黑暗里,
两个声音轻柔地编织成一个喃喃的
交谈,但很久以前的话语
要私密的。我不愿想象公开的场面。
自觉地,我踏进了本不属我的记忆,
与悠闲中消失的爱的步伐直面而对。
一切都变了。新房主砍了树,
清除了数年的繁茂给光让路,任何
行人现在看到的只有过于明亮
现时欲展示给他们的——高雅率直的房子,
空无意义,在春日阳光下张扬
——译自美国诗人协会网(2010年12月16日)
作者简介(晚枫编译自英语维基百科):
伊丽莎白•史派斯生于1952年美国的俄亥俄州。 毕业于瓦尔萨学院和约翰霍普金斯大学,为美国当代诗人。诗歌散见于《纽约人》(The New Yorker)、《诗歌》(Poetry)、《美国诗歌评论》(American Poetry Review)、《新批评》(The New Criterion)、《巴黎评论》(The Paris Review)等多种文学杂志和诗选文集。现在是古彻学院的英语教授,并是“杰出成就奖”的获得者。并曾多次荣获各种奖项。诗歌作品有:
• Globe. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan. March 1, 1981. ISBN 9780819511010.
• Annonciade. New York: Puffin. July 1, 1989. ISBN 9780140586381.
• Worldlings. W. W. Norton & Company. May 1, 1992. ISBN 9780393316285.
• Swan's Island. New York: Carnegie-Mellon University Press. February 1997. ISBN 9780887482496.
• Now the Green Blade Rises. W. W. Norton. 2004. ISBN 9780393324853.
• The Wave-Maker. W. W. Norton. 2008. ISBN 9780393066593
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