Archive for the ‘1959’ Category
一月 31, 2019
Pang Qiongzhen
FAMINE
After finishing
rotten sweet potatoes
peanut shells
grain husks
weeds
grass roots
leaves
bark;
Still famished,
he follows
the grown-ups,
looking for anything to fill his belly.
Between rocks
he scrapes out
white clay,
it feels soft
on his tongue.
In his belly,
the clay becomes hard as rocks;
if you want to live
it has to be scraped
out of your guts.
60 years later
my uncle says on his sickbed,
that stuff was called Guanyin soil.
Like clay to play for children,
like plasticine.
11/15/18 first draft
1/4/19 final text
Translated by MW in January 2019
标签：family, famine, food, history, memory, NPC, Pang Qiongzhen, poetry, 庞琼珍, 新世纪诗典
发表在 1958, 1959, 1960, 1960s, 1961, 1962, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2018, 2019, January 2019, November 2018, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
十一月 27, 2018
Zhang Yi
IM BODEN VERSINKEN
Die anderen haben alle schon aufgegessen und sind gegangen,
bleiben nur die Frau Lehrerin und ich
mit meinen letzten zwei Bissen Reis.
Ich bin wirklich schon satt.
Aber sonst schimpft die Frau Lehrerin, dass ich verschwende.
Also kau ich gar nicht und schlucks nur hinunter.
Sofort nachher
ruft die Frau Lehrerin,
Zhang Yi!
Du hast ein Reiskorn im Gesicht.
2018-10-21
Übersetzt von MW im November 2018
伊沙主持 | 新世纪诗典8一周联展（2018.11.25——12.1）
标签：appetite, behavior, children, class, face, famine, food, grain, hunger, lunch, NPC, people, poetry, rice, school, shame, teacher, Zhang Yi, 张翼, 新世纪詩典
发表在 1950s, 1959, 1960, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2009, 2010s, 2018, 20th century, 21st century, November 2018, NPC, October 2018, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
三月 13, 2018
Yi Sha
AVANTGARDE
you don’t know it exists
it’s there
you forget about it
it’s there
you use it
it’s there
you betray it
it’s there
it exists apart
from you
May 2016
Translated by MW, Feb. 2018
《先锋》
你不知其有
它在那儿
你忘记其有
它在那儿
你利用它时
它在那儿
你背叛它时
它在那儿
它存在于
你之外
2017/5
Yi Sha
MUST CRY OUT
one person
in his 27 years in power
with his own hands
set in motion 55
big and small political campaigns
plunged his country in misery
made his people suffer to death
when I get to know this information
my mouth stands open
I want to cry: “grandpa!”
I want to cry: “grandma!”
I want to cry: “papa!”
I want to cry: “mama!
I want to cry: “uncle! aunt!”
I need to cry out
for all my relatives
all my seniors in my relatives
I want to tell them:
you had it so hard
in your generation
I forgive you everything
May 2016
Tr. MW, Feb. 2018
Yi Sha
ICH MUSS EUCH RUFEN
ein mensch
hat in 27 jahren seiner herrschaft
mit eigener hand
55 kleinere und größere
politische kampagnen in gang gesetzt
sein land ins elend gestürzt
sein volk auf den tod zugerichtet
als ich diese nachricht erfahr
bleibt mein mund offen stehen
ich will rufen: “opa!”
will rufen: “oma!”
will rufen: “papa!”
will rufen: “mama!”
will rufen: “onkel! tanten!”
ich muss alle rufen
alle meine verwandten
alle älteren verwandten
ich will ihnen sagen
ihr habt es viel zu schwer,
viel zu schwer gehabt
ich verzeihe euch alles
Mai 2016
Übersetzt von MW im Februar 2016
《深情呼唤》
一个人
在他统治的27年间
亲手发动了55场
大大小小的政治运动
将其国家拖进水火
将其人民朝死里整
——当我得知这条信息
嘴巴张得老大
我想叫一声爷爷
我想叫一声奶奶
我想叫一声爸爸
我想叫一声妈妈
我还想叫一声
大伯、姑妈、舅舅
我想深情呼唤
我所有的亲人
亲人中的长辈
我想对他们说：
你们这辈子
活得太不容易了
我原谅了你们的一切
2016/5
标签：art, avantgarde, chairman, chairperson, country, cry, existence, family, forbears, forgiving, generation, hard, history, leadership, memory, nation, people, person, poetry, politics, reflection, relatives, self, state, translation, yi sha, 伊沙
发表在 1940s, 1949, 1950s, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1960s, 1966, 1970s, 1980s, 1989, 1990s, 19th century, 2000s, 2010s, 2017, 2018, 20th century, 21st century, February 2018, March 2018, May 2016, Middle Ages, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, Yi Sha, 伊沙 | Leave a Comment »
十二月 8, 2017
Foreword by @tengbiao to “The People’s Republic of the Disappeared: Stories From Inside China’s System for Enforced Disappearances”, a new book about China’s Residential Surveillance at a designated location Atrocity in the Name of the Law
标签：book, disappearances, jail, law, lawyers, party, police, political prisoners, politics, society, state, torture
发表在 1950, 1950s, 1959, 1960s, 1989, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century, December 2017, prose, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
二月 12, 2017
Zhao Siyun
DIE GESCHICHTE VON LOTUSPHÖNIX
Zhao Fenglian
Lotusphönix
1957 geboren
im Dorf Wang Ying im Kreis der Stadt Yun
kannte kein Dampfbrötchen bis sie drei war
lebte von Blättern und Gras
Schnurbaumblätter, Süßkartoffelblätter
Weizenkeime waren das Höchste
Sie weinte vor Hunger nach Weizenkeimen
Ihre Mama fand irgendwo eine Schlange
versteckte sie am Gürtel
erdrückte sie
brachte sie heimlich zur Küche der Volkskommune
buk sie gar
Lotusphönix
trug einen lehmigen Duft um die Schultern
daheim dann
zu dritt
aufgeteilt
ein großer Festschmaus
19. Januar 2017
Übersetzt von MW, 9. Februar 2017
凤莲传
赵思运
赵凤莲
生于1957年
郓城县王营村人
三岁前没见过馒头
吃的全是地瓜叶槐树叶萋萋芽
最好吃的是嫩麦苗
饿急了就哭着要苗苗
她娘不知道在哪里找来一条长虫
缠在腰里
用力把它捋死
偷偷拿到大队食堂里
烤熟后
一缕黄黄的香气搭在凤莲的肩膀上
回到家里
三口人
一人一截
大快朵颐
2017年1月19日
봉련전
조사운
조봉련
1957년생
운성현 왕영촌 사람
세 살이 되기까지는 찐빵을 본 적이 없고
먹은 것이라곤 고구마잎, 홰나무잎과 萋萋芽뿐이다
제일 맛있는 건 애보리싹이다
배가 고파서 못견딜 지경이면 울면서
보리싹을 내놓으라고 졸랐다
그녀의 어머니는 어디서 구해온 건지 모를
기다란 벌레 한 마리를 옆구리에 꿰차고 왔다
힘껏 그것을 비틀어 죽인 후
살그머니 대대식당에 가져갔다
구운 후의
한 가닥 노란색의 향기가 봉련의 어깨위에 걸쳐진다
집에 돌아와
세 식구는
한 사람이 한 토막씩
우적우적 씹어먹었다
2017.01.19.
(美) 文超尘
标签：children, daughter, 赵思运, family, famine, feast, food, grass, history, hunger, language, leaves, memory, mother, NPC, people's commune, poetry, snake, weeds, Zhao Siyun, 新世纪诗典
发表在 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1960s, 1970s, 2017, Februar 2017, January 2017, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
