The Starry Sky - Huang Lihai / 黄礼孩

Huang Lihai / 黄礼孩






The Starry Sky

The clarinet of autumn
ever more complex
Pauses and bridges bring
angels, Satan alike
into a dream
It's not fun like a game
Your lover turns, runs from the city
where she had lived a long time
Old stuff bores her
but she can't love her new flat
Wild novelty sweeps by
Sad songs heard everywhere
The lemon blossomed every year
but this year fruit has given up
In wind, in water, debris
of past shelters blows by
Life lighter than a dandelion
In an even smaller night
you consider your star
It could be in the sky
of either pole
It's never in your breath




星 空

秋天的单簧管越来越繁复
停顿或联合，将天使与撒旦带入梦境
这似乎不是一场游戏中的喜剧
你爱的人动身离开多年的城市
厌倦了旧地方，却也没有爱上新住所
新的野蛮横穿大地，到哪里都听见忧伤的歌
年年开花的柠檬树遭遇了果实的遗弃
在风中，在水里，那些往昔的安逸之地
随风的东西被刮得七零八落，生活比蒲公英还轻
在更小的夜，你想你的星，它或许在北极
或许在南极，但不在你的呼吸里

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Huang Lihai, was born in Xuwen, the town in the farthest south of the mainland, and now lives in Guangzhou. His poems are collected in more than a hundred anthologies. He has published a number of books of poems, including "I Know Little about Life" and "The Passionate Mazurka" and volumes of criticisms about art, dance, film and poetry. He has won a number of prizes, including the 8th Lu Xun Literary Award (Guangzhou, 2009) and Lebanon International Literary Award (2013). Huang established the poetry magazine "Poetry & People" in 1999 and "Poetry & People Poet Prize"in 2005 which has been awarded to Adam Zagajewski, Tomaž Šalamun, Tomas Tranströmer, etc.


黄礼孩，生于中国大陆最南端的徐闻县。现居广州。作品入选《大学语文》《中国新 诗百年大典》等上百种选本。出版诗集《我对命运所知甚少》《一个人的好天气》《热情 的玛祖卡》，舞蹈随笔集《起舞》，艺术随笔集《忧伤的美意》，电影随笔集《目遇》，诗歌评论集《午夜的孩子》等多部。1999 年创办《诗歌与人》，被誉为“中国第一民刊”，2005 年设立“诗歌与人·国际诗人奖”（扎加耶夫斯基、萨拉蒙、特朗斯特罗姆等诗人获过该奖）。黄礼孩曾获2014 年凤凰卫视“美动华人·年度艺术家奖”、2013 年度黎巴嫩文学奖、首届海子诗歌奖、首届"70 后" 诗人奖、首届中国桂冠诗歌奖、第四届珠江（国际）诗歌奖、第八届广东鲁迅文学奖等。现为《中西诗歌》杂志主编。