Stare - Zhang Ye / 张 烨

Zhang Ye / 张 烨






Stare

I go towards you smiling

Happy in your stare

Apprehensive in my happiness

Like a calm sea

Imagining a storm swelling

I am a cherry an orange

Drinking your vision

I am drunk

Intoxicated to sweetness, to brilliance

I firmly walk to you

Your stare is a passion solemn and sublime

Like a serene mountain

Your silent calling has decided

That my climbing will take a life-time

Since a stare of love originates

From a heart of love

I’ll follow your sight

Until I walk into your heart

And bravely conquer it

Then I’ll declare through your eyes

That your stars belongs to only one person


(Translated by yu jianzong and Paddy Bushe)







凝 视

我微笑着走向你

你的凝视是幸福

然而，幸福也使人担忧

我害怕会有一阵风雨袭来

我觉得自己是樱桃是蜜橘

喝着你的目光

我醉了

醉得甜甜蜜蜜，光彩四溢

我坚定地走向你

你的凝视是静穆而崇高的激情

像一座幽深的大山

你沉默的呼唤

注定了我一生的登攀

既然爱的凝视来自心灵

我就要步着你的目光

一直走进你的心灵

勇敢地去占有

并通过你的眼睛向所有人宣布

你的凝视只属于一个人

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Zhang Ye. Born in Shanghai, now living in Shanghai, is a professor of Shanghai University. She has published seven poetry collections and a collection of essays. Some of her works have been translated into English, French, Japanese, Romanian, Vietnamese and other languages. Her poetry collection The Ghost Man was published by Coiscéim, an Irish publisher, in English, Chinese and Irish. In the autumn of 2000, the author was invited to participate in the "Sino-Norwegian Literature Seminar" in Oslo, Norway and visited Ireland. In September 2004 the author was invited to go to Dublin, Ireland to participate in the launch of her poetry collection The Ghost Man (held in the world-famous Trinity College Library), The author was also invited to give four poetry recitals in the Edmund Burke Theatre, Raidió Teilifís Éireann Dublin, Kerry and Dingle. Her works are featured in more than 200 Chinese and foreign poetry anthologies and a variety of dictionaries of literary appreciation. There are about 50 monographs on her poetry.


张烨.生于上海，现居上海，系上海大学教授。已出七部个人诗集，一部散文集，部分作品被译介成英、法、日、罗马尼亚、越南语等多种语言。诗集《鬼男》由爱尔兰脚印出版社用英语、汉语、爱尔兰语三种语言出版。作者于2000 年秋应邀赴挪威奥斯陆参加“中挪文学研讨会”，并访问爱尔兰，于2004 年9月应邀赴爱尔兰都柏林参加诗集《鬼男》的首发式（在世界著名的圣三一学院图书馆隆重举行）。作者还应邀分别在埃德蒙·伯克大剧院、都柏林广播电台、凯里市、丁戈市举办了四场个人诗歌朗诵会。其作品选入二百多部中外诗歌选集及多种文学性鉴赏辞典，约有五十篇评论她诗歌的专题论文。