Pont Marie - Lan Lan / 蓝 蓝

Lan Lan / 蓝 蓝





Pont Marie

Beyond Pont de la Tournelle,
enough green bookstalls
for André Breton's disputations,
now locking up at dusk.

To the west, upwind,
naked poplars, Notre Dame, Île de la Cité.
Hydrangeas on a windowsill
lean toward the riverbank. The blue hour
flicks its skirts, admitting night,
the passages of dreams.

The bridge is best for looking down.
My hands clasp the ink-green rail, still warm
as sunset fires the high stained glass.
Carried on the air above a darkened Seine
the roll of heavy bells.

Amid such wounding light,
all this.

(Translated by Diana Shi & George O’Connell)




玛丽桥 ①

先是图尔内勒滨河路，两排绿房子②
小的，盛得下布勒东们的争吵。
如今他们安静了。一把旧锁合上暮色。

往西，杨树光着身子站在风中
眺望斯德岛，“我们的女士”③
是的，还有楼房窗台上的绣球花
伸长脖子张望，河水的那边
撩起黑暗的裙裾制造着夜
为了让梦通过

而桥是用来朝下看的。栏杆漆成墨绿
伸手勒住她们温暖的腰。一截灿烂
被用来装饰玻璃画。透明
沉重。收集风中滚动的钟声

它通往圣母院（啊，那下面的流水！）。
她们——
通往擦伤自身的光明。

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① 玛丽桥是越过塞纳河通往圣母院最近的桥。
② 塞纳河畔有很多出售旧书的摊点，书就放在一排排绿色
的箱子里。
③ 圣母院的法语原意即“我们的女士”。



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Truth

The dead know our lies. Forest birds
know the wind at dawn.

Fruits know how earth's blood slakes.
Keening knows the grandeur of stemware.

Stones in the throat say the souls of the dead
are with us. Drink up! The wheels of the beasts need oil—

crush the people, and those teeth trying to speak truth.
The world writhes in the cleft of blind men's heads,

from whence pours darkness.

(Translated by Diana Shi & George O’Connell)




真 实

死人知道我们的谎言。在清晨
林间的鸟知道风。

果实知道大地之血的灌溉
哭声知道高脚杯的体面。

喉咙间的石头意味着亡灵在场
喝下它！猛兽的车轮需要它的润滑——

碾碎人，以及牙齿企图说出的真实。
世界在盲人脑袋的裂口里扭动

……黑暗从那里来



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The Ocean Plays Its Wavy Record

The ocean rotates its wavy LP:
someone's coming back.

What clouds arise from a shapeless sky?
What truth gives seagulls wings?

I see on a serene face
two small blue fish enter your gaze.

Moonlight's huge net
snags our pulsing youth.

Tonight in the harbor the lighthouse
scribes its starlight on those waves.

As schooled fish surge
in currents toward the seafloor,

time's hands, in their darkroom,
reveal your own wavy waistline.

Writing the keel's arc
from this island to eternity,
my hands weld with happiness.

My feet recall the scald of rocks
above these boiling waves.

When dawn breaks into pink song
the boy rides naked
July's galloping morning.

Can a boat sail the mind?
Can murmuring lips soothe these waters?

The universe turns and turns
its old LP: the rose drinks up
your skin's gold fragrance.

(Translated by Diana Shi & George O'Connell)




大海播放它粼粼的唱片

大海播放它粼粼的密纹唱片：
有人从海上回来了。

什么是从天空的无形中升起的云朵？
什么是赋予海鸥飞翔的真理？

我从大海宁静的脸上看到
两条蓝色的小鱼游进你的眼睛。

多么巨大的月光的网
在捕捉我们跳动的青春。

藏在港口灯塔下的一支铅笔
今晚仍在书写波浪上的星光。

只有鱼群涌向海底奔腾的河流
记忆之手在那里的暗房
冲洗出你腰肢的起伏。

我一度曾抓住这队岛屿
驶向永恒的龙骨，用我那
和幸福焊在一起的双手；

我的脚记得岩石的滚烫
在海浪撞击下快乐地叫喊。

直到绯红的黎明在一支歌里破晓
赤裸少年分腿骑上
七月奔跑的早晨。

什么是驶进脑海的帆船？
什么是双唇抚平大海的力量？

圆形的宇宙一圈圈播放它的
密纹唱片：一朵玫瑰吸尽了
你金色身体里的芳香。




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Lan Lan, born in 1967 in Yantai, Shandong Province, China, began publishing when she was 14. Twelve of her poetry collections have appeared in Mandarin, among which are Serenade, Psalter and Selected Poems. Her five essay collections include The Book of Water, Night Has a Face and I’m Someone Else. Among her full length children’s books are City of Dreams, Run, Big Tree and The Tank Captain’s Tilted Hat.
Her work has been translated into English, French, Russian, Spanish, German, Japanese, Greek, Belgian, Croatian, and Portuguese, and published in various international journals. Her many awards include the Liu Li’an Poetry Prize, the Poetry and People’s Annual Poet Prize, the New Writings Prize for Bingxin Children’s Literature, and the Yu Long Poetry Prize. She has also been named one of China’s New Century Top Ten Young Women Poets. Her translated poetry has appeared in numerous venues outside China, including Copper Canyon’s 2011 anthology Push Open the Window: Contemporary Poetry from China; a Zephyr Press bilingual collection, Canyon in the Body; Published the Russian poetry collection The Cup of Songs, the English poetry collection Lan Lan’s Poems；and in Pangolin House, the international journal of Chinese & English-language poetry, The Work of the Poets, a collection of Spanish-language poetry published in Chile.
The poet enjoys a particularly close relationship with Greece, where she was a featured participant in the 2013 Athens International Poetry Festival. In 2014, she was named an honorary citizen of Chios. A member of the Henan Literature Institute, Lan Lan has also served as Poet-in-Residence at Beijing’s Renmin University. From Here to Here, a collection of her new and selected poems, recently assembled and translated into English under a U.S. National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, currently awaits publication.


蓝蓝（1967 年—），生于山东烟台。出版有诗集：《内心生活》《睡梦睡梦》《诗篇》《从这里，到这里》《一切的理由》《唱吧，悲伤》《世界的渡口》《从缪斯山谷归来》《河海谣与里拉琴》等十九部；出版中英文双语诗集《身体里的峡谷》《钉子》、俄语诗集《歌声之杯》、英语诗集《蓝蓝的诗》、西班牙语诗集《诗人的工作》；出版童诗集《诗人与小树》《我和毛毛》；出版散文诗和随笔集八部；出版童话五部；出版评论集三部。曾获第四届“诗歌与人·国际诗人奖”、中国首届女诗人杰出贡献奖、第三届袁可嘉诗歌奖、第十六届华语传媒文学奖、首届苏轼诗歌奖、第十一届中国优秀儿童文学奖等。