A Small Station Where Gods Arrive - Li Shao Jun / 李少君

Li Shao Jun / 李少君







A Small Station Where Gods Arrive

Several small wooden houses

spatter out few dots of light

I’m as small as an ant

Held up here in the middle of a vast Mongolian prairie

at an unnamed stop

Enduring the frigid loneliness, but also inwardly content

Behind me, tiger like prowls the early winter night

Further, a distinct, empty path scribbles on

Further, the slow flowing Argun river

a blazing beam in the dim night

Further, an expanse of terse white birch trees

and the bored murky wild

Further, against the soft blue curtains of night

stars flicker lowly in the sky

Even further, the northward expanse where the spirits reside


(Translated by Brendan Higginbottom)







神降临的小站

三五间小木屋

 　　泼溅出一两点灯火

我小如一只蚂蚁

今夜滞留在呼伦贝尔大草原中央

 　　的一个无名小站

独自承受凛冽孤独但内心安宁

背后，站着猛虎般严酷的初冬寒夜

再背后，横着一条清晰而空旷的马路

再背后，是缓缓流淌的额尔古纳河

 　　在黑暗中它亮如一道白光

再背后，是一望无际的简洁的白桦林

 　　和枯寂明净的苍茫荒野

再背后，是低空静静闪烁的星星

 　　和蓝绒绒的温柔的夜幕

再背后，是神居住的广大的北方









Li Shaojun was born in Hunan province in November 1967. He graduated from the Department of Journalism of Wuhan University. His published poetry collections include A Collection of Grassroots, A Poetry Reader: Thirty-two Poems, Be Blue, and Those Vanishing People. He also edited the anthology Selected Poetry from the Twenty-first Century. His works have been translated into English, Swedish and Korean. He advocates “grassroots-ness” of poetry, which has become a key word of twenty-first century Chinese poetry. He was known as a nature poet. He is currently Vice Editor-in-Chief of Poetry Periodical.


李少君. 1967 年11 月生，湖南湘乡人，1989 年毕业于武汉大学新闻系，主要著作有《草根集》、《诗歌读本： 三十二首诗》、《蓝吧》、《那些消失了的人》等，主编《21 世纪诗歌精选》，诗作入选数十种选本， 并被翻译成英、瑞典、韩等文字。其主张的诗歌“草根性”已成为21 世纪汉语诗歌关键词，被誉为“自然诗人”，现为《诗刊》杂志副主编。