天女散花

一早收到一位美国诗友自美国东部寄来的题目叫“名作家”的电邮，祝我圣诞快乐，并问我有无读到他多年前写的一首叫 Name-Dropping 的诗。我告诉他我曾把它翻译成中文并在台湾的《笠诗刊》（292期,2012.12）上发表过。


Name Dropping¹
by Larry Turner


Bill Marr
John Wills²
Charlene Baumbich³
I have only three names to drop.
If you do not catch them,
then let them lie.
¹The November issue of Poetry Magazine has art works the poet David Shapiro has made by pasting stickers on postcards. His descriptions are filled with name-dropping. I'm thinking of trying the process myself, but I don't have his connections, so I wrote the following poem.

² John is a former Chicago police officer and retired FBI agent. He writes both non-fiction and fiction in the form of novels, short stories, articles and poetry.
³Charlene is a Chicago writer, speaker and humorist.

天女散花

 雷吕․特诺(Larry Turner)作


 非马
 约翰․威尔斯
 佳琳․邦碧奇
 我只有三个名字可抛。
 要是你不接住它们，
 那就让它们在地上趴着。


 附注：雷吕․特诺(Larry Turner)是我们的诗人工作坊的创始人，在我工作的阿冈国家研究所里从事物理研究，当年是他搭的桥让我同美国诗坛打交道。他业余写诗之外还写剧本，并经常同他太太在教堂里演出。他的诗大多幽默风趣。几年前他退休後搬到美国东部，仍积极参与推动当地的写作活动。今天来信说他看到十一月份这期的《诗刊》上刊有一个诗人的"艺术品"，在明信片上粘贴了许多名人的名字，觉得有趣，便也想东施效颦一番，但他的交游没那麽广，便退而求其次，写了这首题为Name Dropping的诗。诗中提到的约翰曾在芝加哥当过警察及联邦调查局探员，写小说丶散文及诗歌，也写评论，还经常受邀到各地演讲。佳琳则出版了许多幽默文集，也经常受邀到处演讲。她曾经是我们诗人工作坊的活跃成员之一。
这首诗使我想起了多年前应邀到旧金山参加一个作家会议，会上一位名作家在他的发言中一再用一些名人的名字来"锦上添花"的趣事。事後我还写了一首题为〈加冕的侏儒〉Name Dropper 的诗调侃他。


加冕的侏儒


 他从口袋里
 掏出一大堆响亮的名字
 奋力向上抛起
 让它们
 天女散花般
 纷纷
 在他自己的头上
 加冕
 就在他沾沾自喜
 顾盼自雄的时候
 那些非亲即故飘飘荡荡的名字
 却一下子变得沉重了起来
 空空空空
 气锤般
 把他锤压成
 侏儒

Bilingual Poem of the Month 每月雙語一詩（2014.12）

火星計劃

 

根據這個野心勃勃的計劃

人類將在2030年左右

把最酷最有頭腦的精英

送上火星

用那一望無際的紅褐色沙盤

逼真推演

如何在

人與人之間

族群與族群之間

國家與國家之間

宗教與宗教之間

文化與文化之間

白與黑    黃與褐

甚至根本毫無差異的膚色之間

挑撥離間

製造更多的裂痕與仇恨

以便一舉把地球

變成另一個

紅褐色的沙盤

 

MARS MISSION

 

according to this ambitious plan

man will send the coolest and most brilliant people

to Mars around 2030

and use the great red sand table

for a realistic training and tactical exercise

on how to instigate more hatred

and create deeper and bitterer estrangement

between

individuals

racial groups

nations

religions

cultures

white and black

yellow and brown

even those of the same skin color

and with one stroke make the earth

into another great red sand table

Poetry eBook 《非马集》电子书

William Marr's Poetry Anthology, edited by Mo Yu and published by National Museum of Taiwan Literature in 2009, is now listed as an ebook in Feng Ti Poetic Club.   2009年由莫渝编台湾文学館出版的《非马集》 被列入風笛诗社的电子书   http://www.fengtipoeticclub.com/book/book35/index.html

Four poems appear in Eastlit

http://www.eastlit.com/eastlit-december-2014/eastlit-december-2014-content/time-difference-poems/


诗作<时差><石林><在自助洗衣店><愿你有张吊网床>的英文版刊载于《东方文学》（Eastlit)，2014年12月号
 
时差
 
 
清晨
一个人在屋子里
走来走去
不发一点声音
 
黄昏的屋子里
也有一个人
在走来走去
不发一点声音
 
万里之外
他们不约而同
走近窗口
抬头向霞光流荡的天边
看了一眼
不发一点声音
 
他们知道
这时候
任何一个暗示
眼皮一动或嘴角一牵
都将引发一场
翻天覆地的
美丽的
崩陷
 
石林
 
年轮在这里已失去意义
正如我们不会去追问
浩瀚的大海上
每一朵浪花的身世
 
但我们还是把镜头
对准每一个
历尽沧桑的脸庞
以及它们争先恐后
伸向天空的
手势
 
 
在自助洗衣店
 
一个尼龙布袋
鼓鼓塞满
整整一星期
汗渍的日子
 
每个周末
他总仪典般来到这里
倾袋倒入洗衣机
加上一小包肥皂粉
及漂白剂
然后用几个硬币
启动
另一个循环
 
 
愿你有张吊网床
 
有了一张吊网床
便满天阳光满眼清凉
 
马雅人的甜梦
在两棵绿树间摆荡
 
有了一张吊网床
便满城灯火满脸惊惶
 
惧高者的噩梦
在两栋摩天大楼间摆荡
 
注：南美洲的马雅 (Maya)人至今仍喜欢睡在吊网床上。「愿你有张吊网床」是他们
的日常问候语。
 
 

Mike Galati Reading of Poems by William Marr

http://youtu.be/y3h5kkD0E5I

星群 STARS

星群

 

星群

星群

我一個名字都叫不出來的星群

從懂得數字起便數到現在都數不清的星群

夜夜我躺在露水很重的草地上仰望你們

希望從你們那裡得一點消息

關於另一個世界—

一個為口徑２００吋的望遠鏡

所窺不到的世界

 

STARS

 

   O stars stars

endless ever since I learned to count

I don’t know any of your names

yet night after night

I lie on the grass wet with dew

looking up at you

hoping to find something

about another world—a world beyond the range

of the most powerful scope

 

BILINGUAL POEM OF THE MONTH (2014.11)

哥倫比亞冰原

──加拿大洛磯山遊記之二

 

凜然面對

被凍結了的

時間

 

卻仍有那麼幾雙

愛冒險的腳

惴惴走近

紅色標幟的水洞

想探測

原始的深度

 

On the Columbia Icefield

 

in awe

facing the frozen

time

 

still

there are some adventurous feet

walking unsteadily toward the brink

of a hole marked with red flags

try to measure the depth

of  the origin

 

Mike Galati Reads William Marr's Poems

Chicago poet Mike Galati reads Poems by William Marr

http://feima.yidian.org/mike-galati-reading.wav


Text link:

http://feima.yidian.org/mike-galati-reading-text.htm

SHARING AN UMBRELLA

SHARING AN UMBRELLA appears in Every Day Poems (2014.10.28)

http://us2.forward-to-friend.com/forward/show?u=9e5e4dd4731a9649c1dd1cf58&id=53ec090fd4



Chinese version:

共傘

 

共用一把傘

才發覺彼此的差距

 

但這樣我俯身吻妳

因妳努力踮起腳尖

而倍感欣喜

The Art World of William Marr: 山邊 AT THE MOUNTAINSIDE

The Art World of William Marr: 山邊 AT THE MOUNTAINSIDE: 山邊             我在山邊遇見一個小孩,           一個會哭會笑的小孩！ 淚珠才從他聖潔的雙頰滾過 , 甜美的花朵就在他臉上綻開。     最純潔的是這小孩晶瑩的眼淚， 說最美也只這未裝飾的臉才配！ ...

山邊 AT THE MOUNTAINSIDE

山邊

 

          我在山邊遇見一個小孩, 

        一個會哭會笑的小孩！

淚珠才從他聖潔的雙頰滾過,

甜美的花朵就在他臉上綻開。

   

最純潔的是這小孩晶瑩的眼淚，

說最美也只這未裝飾的臉才配！

造物者的意旨我似乎已懂，

為這無邪的天真我深深感動。

 

我深情地注視著他許久許久，

溫暖的慰藉流遍在我心頭。

感激的淚水迷矇了我的雙眼，

再看時，小孩的蹤影已不見！         

 

AT THE MOUNTAINSIDE

 

I met a little boy at a mountainside

who was quick to laugh and cry

tears had hardly rolled down his cheeks

when a sweet smile bloomed at his mouth

 

there was nothing purer than his sparkling tears

nothing more beautiful than his angelic face

I understood the intention of the Creator

and was moved by the child’s innocence

 

I stared at him with a deep feeling

warmth flooded my heart

tears of gratitude welled in my eyes

when I looked again    he was gone

 

TEN POEMS BY WILLIAM MARR

Appreciation of Ten Poems by William Marr, Modern Poetry Collection.

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_939bf7e50102vf5m.html

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE QUEEN ,etc.

Two Chinese poems HAPPY BIRTHDY TO THE QUEEN and TIMELESS CAPSULE--In Memory of Nancy Jean Carrigan, and Chinese translations of PRODIGAL by Judith Tullis, and HUMANE FACE by A.K. Das, published in New World Poetry Bimonthly, Issue 144, October 2014.

詩作<女王生日快樂>及<時間容器>+譯詩<敗家子>及<人面>發表于《新大陸詩雙月刊》，2014年10月第144期。

http://www.newworldpoetry.com/issues/no144.pdf

Bilingual Poem of the Month (2014.10)

虎

 

眯著眼

猫一般溫驯

蹲伏在柵栏里

 

武松那廝

当年打的

就是这玩意儿？

 

 

TIGER

 

squatting in the cage

squinting

gentle as a kitten

 

was this the kind of animal

our hero Wu-song *

fought with?

 

* Wu-song, a tiger-fighting hero in Chinese folklore.

http://feima.yidian.org/weekb5.htm

Two poems, TWO SUNS OR MORE and YELLOW RIVER, are included in World Poetry Yearbook 2013. The book presents 211 poets from 93 countries and areas.

     Two Suns Or More

 

 

     Finally came the news

     the flesh and blood scattered

     during the Big Bang

may have settled another solar system

44 light-years away

 

The possibility of having relatives

as cultured and peaceful as the human race

aroused intense excitement throughout the world

Now just let us pray

they and we worship

the same God

                YELLOW RIVER

 

If you trace up the turbid current, you will find

as any geography book can tell you

the Kunlun Mountains in Qinghai

 

Yet according to history’s bloody accounts

this river

which turns clear at most

once in a thousand years

has its origin in millions of eye sockets

of suffering human beings

 

EVENING SMOKESTACK

 

 

frantically puffs

his pipe

under the dying sky

trying in vain

to make another ring

of smoke

HARBOR

    HARBOR

 

     1

 

the harbor was asleep

when the fog moved in

 

the strange beast in her nightmare

licked her with its wet tongue

she woke to find the world

weeping

 

 

      2

 

watching helplessly the departure

of a roaming son

she wonders why

she has to be a southern port

that never freezes

STARS

STARS

 

   O stars stars

endless ever since I learned to count

I don’t know any of your names

yet night after night

I lie on the grass wet with dew

looking up at you

hoping to find something

about another world—a world beyond the range

of the most powerful scope

 

VIETNAM WAR MEMORIAL

A block of marble
and twenty six letters of the alphabet
etch so many young names
onto history

Wandering alone
amid the mass grave
an old woman has at last found
her only child
and with her eyes tightly shut
her trembling fingers now feel
for the mortal woundon his ice-cold forehead

                      AT THE MOUNTAINSIDE

 

I met a little boy at a mountainside

who was quick to laugh and cry

tears had hardly rolled down his cheeks

when a sweet smile bloomed at his mouth

 

there was nothing purer than his sparkling tears

nothing more beautiful than his angelic face

I understood the intention of the Creator

and was moved by the child’s innocence

 

I stared at him with a deep feeling

warmth flooded my heart

tears of gratitude welled in my eyes

when I looked again  he was gone

 

                                                         2009.8

DAYBREAK

 

a pair of birds making love on the branch

shake down an innocent leaf

 

smack! with the slap of a huge palm

a newborn utters its first cry

while the exhausted moon shuts her eyes

to the sun’s ever reddening face

載歌載舞   Dancing

38.1x53.3 cm

油畫  Oil

1998

夜生活  Night Life

22.9x30.5 cm

混合材料   Mixed media

 1990

 

貴妃醉酒  Tipsiness

30.5x40.6 cm

混合材料   Mixed Media

2007

 

 

女孩畫像   Portrait of a girl

27.8x35.6 cm

丙烯   Acrylic

1998

 

 


芝加哥小夜曲

黃昏冷清的街頭
蠻荒地帶

一輛門窗緊閉的汽車
在紅燈前緩停了下來

突然
後視鏡裡
一個黑人的身影
龐然出現

         先生，買…

受驚的白人司機
猛踩油門
疾衝過紅燈
如野兔逃命

       …買把花吧
           今天是情人節


CHICAGO SERENADE

Evening
a desolate street

A car with its windows tightly rolled up
stops for the red lights

Suddenly
in the rear-view mirror
a dark figure looming

        Sir, buy ...

The ashen driver
steps in fright on the pedal
and rushes through the red lights
like a rabbit running for its life

         ... buy some flowers
             today's Valentine's Day

非馬 ﹐本名馬為義，英文名 William Marr，1936年生於臺灣臺中市， 在原籍 廣東潮陽度過童年。臺北工專畢業，美國馬開大學機械碩士，威斯康辛大學核工博士。在美國阿岡國家實驗室從事能源研究工作多年，現已退休，專心從事寫作與藝術創作。曾任美國伊利諾州詩人協會會長。為芝加哥詩人俱樂部會員，臺灣《笠》詩社同仁，北美中華藝術家協會創會理事及國際華文詩人筆會主席團委員，《新大陸詩刊》、《東方雜誌》、芝加哥華文寫作協會、夏威夷華文寫作協會、中國詩歌翻譯研究中心、文學網站《詩天空》、《常青藤》、《文心社》、《北美楓》、《美華論壇》等顧問，《新詩界》及《國際漢詩》編委，《當代詩壇》編審，中國詩歌翻譯研究中心文學藝術作品大獎賽評委會主任等。著有詩集二十一種，散文集二種及譯著多種。作品被收入一百多種選集及教科書，並被譯成多種文字，包括英文、日文、韓文、馬來西亞文、印度文、德文、斯拉夫文、希伯萊文、西班牙文及羅馬尼亞文等。主編《朦朧詩選》、《台灣現代詩四十家》及《臺灣現代詩選》等多種。曾獲『吳濁流文學獎』、『笠詩創作獎』、『笠詩翻譯獎』、『伊利諾州詩賽獎』及芝加哥『詩人與贊助者詩獎』等。非馬交遊廣闊，同美國、台灣、香港、中國大陸以及東南亞地區包括泰國 、新加坡、菲律賓、馬來西亞等地的華語詩壇都有密切的聯繫 。最近幾年他在網絡上設立了《非馬藝術世界》網站，影響力更伸向了加拿大、澳洲與歐洲等地的華語詩壇。退休後他更積極參與美國詩壇活動，同美國詩人們有相當密切愉快的交流。英文詩集《秋窗》出版后頗獲好評，除《芝加哥論壇報》曾以巨大篇幅介紹該書外，在一個網絡書商的通訊上，一位詩評家還把他列入了包括美國詩壇名家如桑德堡（Carl Sandburg）、 馬斯特斯（Edgar Lee Masters）、 《詩刊 》創辦者女詩人門羅 （Harriet Monroe）, 以及前任伊利諾州桂冠詩人黑人女詩人布魯克斯 （Gwendolyn Brooks） 等在內的芝加哥值得收藏的詩人名單之中。 2010年他在美國出版了他的第二本英文詩集《在天地之間》。非馬近年並從事藝術創作，在芝加哥地區、北京及網絡上舉辦了多次個展及合展，展出他的繪畫與雕塑作品。 維基百科中文詞條http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9D%9E%E9%A6%AC 維基百科英文詞條 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Marr

William Marr's Poetry Publications

William Marr's poetry books in Chinese ( published under the Pseudonym Fei Ma)

 

1.  In the Windy City, Chinese/English, Li Poetry Society, Taipei, Taiwan, 1975

2.  Selected Poems of William Marr, Taiwan Commercial Press, Taipei, Taiwan, 1983

3.  The White Horce, Times Publishing Company, Taipei, Taiwan, 1984

4.  Anthology of Fei Ma's Poetry, Joint Publishing, Hong Kong, 1984

5.  The Resounding Echos of Hoof Beats, Li Poetry Society, Taipei, Taiwan, 1986

6.  Road, Elite Publishing Co., Taipei, Taiwan, 1986

7.  Anthology of Short Poems by Fei Ma, Strait Art Publishing House, Fuzhou, China,      1990

8.  Fly! Spirit, Morning Star Publishing Co., Taichung, Taiwan, 1992

9.   Anthology of Self-selected poems by Fei Ma, Guizhou People's Press, 1993

10.  The Microscopic World, Taichung Cultural Center, Taichung, Taiwan, 1998

11. The Poetic Art of Fei Ma, Writers Publishing House, Beijing, China, 1999

12. Not All Flowers Need to Produce Fruits, Bookman Books Co., Taipei, Taiwan, 1999

13. Poems of Fei Ma, Flower City Publishing House, Guangzhou, China, 2000

14. Selected Poems of William Marr, The Milkyway Publishing Co., Hong Kong, 2003    

15.  Anthology of Poems by Fei Ma, National Museum of Taiwan Literature, Tainan, Taiwan, 2009

16. You Are the Wind,  Anthology of Fei Ma's Poetry, Vol. 1 (1950-1979),  Showwe,  Taipei, Taiwan, 2011

17. Dream Design, Anthology of Fei Ma's Poetry, Vol. 2 (1980-1989),  Showwe, Taipei,   Taiwan, 2011

18. The World of Grasshoppers, Anthology of Fei Ma's Poetry, Vol. 3 (1990-1999),  Showwe, Taipei, Taiwan, 2012

19. The Sunshine Scarf, Anthology of Fei Ma's Poetry, Vol. 4 (2000-2012),  Showwe, Taipei, Taiwan, 2012

 

 

 

William Marr's Poetry Books in English:

Autumn Window, Arbor Hill Press, Chicago, 1995（1st Ed.), 1996 (2nd Ed.)

Between Heaven And Earth, PublishAmerica, Baltimore, 2010