Posts Tagged ‘方妙红’
11月 22, 2024
Fang Miaohong
ONE KIND OF FATHER
When I was small,
my dad would point at beggars by the road,
asking me, is that your dad?
I always got angry and refused to answer.
He didn’t know,
each time other students pointed at him,
asking me, is that your dad?
I also didn’t want to say yes.
2023
Translated by MW in January 2024
有一种父亲
方妙红
小时候我爸
经常指着路边的乞丐问我
那是你爸爸吗？
我总是生气地不说话
他不知道
每当我同学指着他问我
那是你爸爸吗？
我也不想说是
Fang Miaohong
MOURNING
I call my father on WeChat.
He is at the mourning hall for my aunt,
in four days she will be buried, he says.
I say oh,
then I feel a little like crying.
“I broke up with that guy!”
My father hesitates,
“Can’t talk now,
full of people here.”
2023
Translated by MW in January 2024
灵堂
方妙红
跟我爸视频
他正在伯母的灵堂
他说伯母四天后出殡
我哦了一声
然后有点想哭
“我跟那个男生分手了”
他迟疑了一下
“不说了
这里都是人”
Fang Miaohong
VOLUNTEERS
Volunteering at the social services station,
kids climbing into my lap,
hanging onto me
like stray cats at the rescue service.
One child keeps to himself,
sits motionless.
I go and ask him,
“Don’t want to play together?”
“No, you will leave soon anyway,
when you are gone, we get to eat.”
2023
Translated by MW in January 2024
志愿者
方妙红
去福利院做志愿者
孩子们像救助站
的流浪猫一样不停地
钻进我们怀里
挂在我们身上
有一个孩子
一动不动地坐在椅子上
我走过去问
“不跟我们一起玩吗？”
“不用，你们马上就会走
走了我们就开饭了”
These three poems are typical for “colloquial poetry”, they talk of daily life, they speak directly of personal experience. Speaking directly, up to a point where the speaker, the “I” in the poem, may feel uncomfortable, not very happy about it, but it has to come out. The person inthere has ambiguous feelings, and this ambiguity is where the poetry comes from. Fang Miaohong writes all the time, every day, recording life, her feelings, her dad comes up often, for example. One poem is called My Bicycle, and it is really just about a bicycle, but the feelings and the ambiguity are plainly there. Two weeks later there is a poem called Going Back To Look For the Lock, about the same bicycle, but now there is another person. You can read these together, or each one alone, or one month of poems, or one whole year, it will be like reading a story or reading a novel. I was reading the poems from January 2023. There are poems called Volunteers, Love, Puberty, Very Fast, Knowing Silence, Washed By The Sea, you are drawn into a world. There is no pretence at all, just this direct voice. The poems are short, the story becomes more detailed when you read on, but you can stop any time and still feel the poetry.
“有一种父亲”、”灵堂”、”志愿者”，这三首都是典型的口语诗，谈日常生活，直接说出个人经历。直接说，一直到诗中的我也许不舒服，并不是得意，还是要说出来，甚至可以说有了那种暧昧的感觉才变成诗。方秒红每天都写诗，好像都是记录生活，经常有情感，经常有父亲等等。”我的自行车”就写那个车，好像没有别的，情感和暧昧还是很强。两周后有了“回头找锁”，也是自行车，现在有人，两首一块读好，单独也好，读一个月或者一年就是像一本非常好的小说。”志愿者”，“爱情”，“青春期”，“很快的”，”会心的沉默”，“大海的洗礼”，都是2023年一月的诗，连起来读读出一个世界，读下去越来越丰富。没有什么做作，都是那么直接，每一首也不长。
标签：daughter, death, family, Fang Miaohong, father, life, love, mourning, poetry, relationship, relationships, volunteers, 方妙红
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11月 22, 2024
Fang Miaohong
MOURNING
I call my father on WeChat.
He is at the mourning hall for my aunt,
in four days she will be buried, he says.
I say oh,
feel a little like crying.
“I broke up with that guy!”
My father hesitates,
“Can’t talk now,
full of people here.”
2023
Translated by MW in January 2024
磨铁诗歌奖·2023年度最佳诗歌100首|方妙红《灵堂》入选理由：我们常说诗就是将不可言说的东西呈现出来，确切存在但又无法言明就是诗性。在《灵堂》中，父女对话发生的背景和对话的内容，共同构成了这种诗性，非常真切，富有张力——真实中自然存在的张力，诗的张力。方妙红有敏锐的诗歌洞察力，她很擅长写“瞬间”，瞬间里的诗性，往往是最有爆发力，最有张力的诗性。她还有自然、干净、简洁的语言，这几乎是最好的语言。（磨铁读诗会/沈浩波）
Fang Miaohong
AUFBAHRUNG
Ich ruf meinen Vater an,
er ist bei der Aufbahrung meiner Tante.
Er sagt, sie wird in vier Tagen begraben.
Ich sag “oh”,
möchte ein bisschen weinen.
“Ich hab mich von dem Burschen getrennt”
Mein Vater zögert,
“Hier sind lauter Leute,
reden wir später!”
2023-11-12
Übersetzt von MW im Januar 2024
磨铁诗歌奖·2023年度最佳诗歌100首|韩东《老和尚的开示》入选理由：韩东依然在寻求写作的变化，这首《老和尚的开示》，有非常精巧的双线深度叙述结构，复杂的处理方式，却呈现得清晰自然，丝丝入扣。韩东在这首诗中，展现了小说家和诗人的双重功力。而末句“我念佛，你们吃豆腐乳”，更是既具妙趣又有禅意。（磨铁读诗会/沈浩波）
磨铁诗歌奖·2023年度最佳诗歌100首|韩东《又亮又动》入选理由：“人们喜欢看到闪亮的东西”，这是一个普遍的常识，韩东从这样的常识写起，最后竟将诗歌抵达到如此富有情感，如此动人，如此美好之境界。而最后那句“永不瞑目”，更是将诗歌中的情感托举向永恒，令整首诗彻底完成了从形而下到形而上的过程。韩东总是能将普通日常中的神性部分，轻轻擦拭出来，呈现在世界中。（磨铁读诗会/沈浩波）
磨铁诗歌奖·2023年度最佳诗歌100首｜何小竹《第六十首诗》入选理由：何小竹决定挑战一下自己，或者说逼着自己离开舒适区，去写另一种诗。他擅长精纯的短诗，我甚至认为，他是当代汉语中写“纯诗”的第一人。但他2023年整整一年没有写擅长的诗：不写短句，写长句；不写纯诗，写叙论之诗；不写高度浓缩之诗，写即兴漫思之诗。成名已久的诗人试图再拓新路，令人敬佩。这个系列中的《第六十首》，看似漫涣松弛，但内在却有绷紧的情感，有心灵的弹跳，有可反复咬嚼的滋味。（磨铁读诗会/沈浩波）
标签：animal, animals, aunt, cameras, ceremony, daughter, eyes, 韩东, family, Fang Miaohong, father, friend, Han Dong, He Xiaozhu, human, humanity, humans, life, love, monk, mourning, moving, religion, shining, 方妙红, 何小竹
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11月 21, 2024
Fang Miaohong
KRAUTTASCHENMANN
Mittwoch in der Früh,
ein Mensch isst sein Frühstück,
eilt an mir vorbei.
Er lässt einen Duft in der Luft.
Oh, Krauttaschen, denk ich,
er ist ein Mann, der Krauttaschen isst.
2023
Übersetzt von MW im November 2024
磨铁诗歌奖·2023年度最佳诗歌100首|方妙红《吃菜包的人》入选理由：又是一首会让很多人觉得不是诗的好诗，来自出生于1997年的年轻诗人方妙红。这当然是诗，而且是好诗，好得高级，好得浑然天成。什么是诗？《吃菜包的人》就是对这一问题的最前沿的回答。不仅仅是最前沿，也是最传统，我甚至觉得，这就是“诗”最初的样子，当“诗”在这个世界上出现时，就应该这个样子的。当一个吃菜包的人从我身边走过，当我意识到这是个吃菜包的人，这样的瞬间，就是一首诗。这样的诗会令人印象特别深刻，我们都记住了那个吃菜包的人。（磨铁读诗会/沈浩波）
磨铁诗歌奖·2023年度最佳诗歌100首|方妙红《他》入选理由：三种场景，三种美好画面，写出一个独特的“他”。轻盈的叙述，极简的语言，结尾处一个意料之外的叙述的转向，让这首诗活力满满、爱意满满。方妙红善于用松弛且不着痕迹的方式，写出巨大的激情，她写爱情的诗，都很有身体感，在独特的女性视角下，这身体这欲望，总是青春萌动，洁净坦荡。（磨铁读诗会/里所）
磨铁诗歌奖·2023年度最佳诗歌100首|范可心《火化》入选理由：好一个“一刀劈开”！当诗人听表叔聊宠物安葬，说到“一刀劈开”时，她意识到，这是一首诗，她瞬间洞察到了“一刀劈开”背后所包含的无奈、荒诞与残忍。人们对宠物的情感越来越如同亲人，也就必然催生了宠物安葬行业，但在中国社会，这依然是一个灰色行业，无法像为人类服务的殡葬行业一样发展，也无法为死去的宠物购买更好的殡葬服务。大的宠物怎么办？塞不进去怎么办？除了一刀劈开还能怎么办？这一刀，令人倒吸一口凉气，同时砍在那些深爱自己宠物的人心口。（磨铁读诗会/沈浩波）
磨铁诗歌奖·2023年度最佳诗歌100首｜独孤九《未遂》入选理由：十九岁青年的心事，一波三折。这是一首很有时代感的私人叙事诗，车站广场搭配齐秦的《狼》，再加上血气方刚的年轻人对性的好奇和幻想，张力拉满。独孤九用独白的方式，把紧张又冲动的身体写成了一首充满矛盾和遗憾的诗，结尾甚是黑色幽默，正如无数人在青春期无疾而终的念想一样——“未遂”。（磨铁读诗会/胡啸岩）
标签：body, breakfast, cut, cutting, 独孤九, 磨铁读诗会, death, Dugu Jiu, eating, 范可心, Fan Kexin, Fang Miaohong, fire, food, love, lover, memory, people, pet, pets, poetry, sex, sexuality, vegetables, 方妙红
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3月 24, 2024
Fang Miaohong
PAPAS GEFÜHL FÜR POESIE
Spät am Abend,
sagt mein Vater,
war er auf dem Berg an einem Teich,
hat beim Angeln zugeschaut.
Rund um den Fischteich
sind ein Dutzend Männer gesessen.
Er sagt, ihre Seelen
waren alle im Wasser.
Er sagt, das Angeln kostet 150 Yuan.
Er hat kein Ticket gekauft.
Er sagt, ohne Geld kann er auch angeln.
Denn seine Seele
sei mit den anderen Seelen zusamengewesen.
2024.1.7
Übersetzt von MW im März 2024
标签：animals, family, Fang Miaohong, fish, fishing, ghost, ghosts, lake, NPC, people, poetry, soul, souls, spirit, spirits, 新世纪詩典, 方妙红
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2月 27, 2024
Dear poetry fans,
On Febr. 10, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published my article on the poet Nan Ren 南人 (scroll to p. 5; there are a few minor mistakes in the German article, I couldn’t see the final print version before it came out: the first poem has one line added; and Shaanxi became Shanxi). Last week I decided to write a version in English for the MCLC Resource Center.
This is a newspaper article, so there are no footnotes. The reference to Maghiel van Crevel was not included in the German print version. I have thought about many names of poets I should have mentioned, and other things I should have said. Anyway, such a publication in a major daily in Germany is a big success, a big deal in international exposure for current Chinese poetry. I hope you like it. Please comment, thank you!
Sources: Here is a link to the poems in the article including the original Chinese versions. And here are some of the paintings by Huang Li 黄丽 that accompany the poems in the book. The pictures look much better in the book. Nan Ren has sent them to me in high resolution. He and Xiron have authorized me to look for publishers in Europe and beyond. I hope to find publishers for the German speaking and for the English speaking Pawnshop. Here is a link to about 50 poems in Chinese with some translations in English or German. Here is a link to the announcement from last May, when the book was published in China. The publisher is Xiron Poetry Club, 磨铁读诗会. Xiron is a big publisher, led by the poet Shen Haobo 沈浩波. But Xiron is private and has to purchase an ISBN for each book from a state publisher. The state publisher is on the cover, Xiron Poetry Club is on the first page. Both have to avoid publishing anything that could get the book pulled or forbidden.
IN A PAWNSHOP OF PAIN
Nan Ren is a legend. He doesn’t like to say when he was born. 1970, found that somewhere. Not important. Nan Ren is a pen name. The nán of ‘south‘ and the rén of ‘person‘. What does that mean? His family comes from the south, somewhere south of the Long River, the Yangtse. Nanren, southern people, was the lowest stratum in the Mongol empire. The Mongols captured the south last, all the better jobs had been assigned to other people already. Almost every poet writing in Chinese has a pen name. People have more than one name in Chinese, even non-artists. It was that way in Confucius‘ times. And in the occident, people also had several names, at least prominent people, all the way from Homer.
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标签：beijing, book, books, censorship, 磨铁, 磨铁读诗会, Democracy Wall, disease, Europe, 西毒何殇, Fang Miaohong, FAZ, frankfurt, Germany, history, internet, Maghiel van Crevel, MCLC, media, memory, name, names, Nan Ren, newspaper, opera, pandemic, people, poetry, publishing, reality, self censorship, Shen Haobo, singing, society, time, wall, walls, writing, Xi'an, Xidu Heshang, Zhu Jian, 南人, 尹丽川, 方妙红, 朱剑, 椿树, 沈浩波
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2月 9, 2023
Fang Miaohong
ENTKOMMEN
In einem Hotel in Berlin
ist das weltweit größte,
11,2 Millionen britische Pfund teure
kegelförmige Aquarium
am frühen Morgen plötzlich geborsten,
über 1500 tropische Fische
sind in die Lobby
und bis draußen geflossen.
Über die Ursache des seltsamen Schadens
gab es viele Diskussionen.
Jemand sagte, es war ein Temperatursturz,
andere sagten, Menschen hätten das Ding attakiert.
Ich meine, man hat die größten Verdächtigen
außer Acht gelassen –
– die Fische.
Übersetzt von MW im Februar 2023
伊沙：方妙红是西外西班牙语专业本科毕业生，不算我的亲学生。大概是2015年，长安诗歌节进西外活动，她作为现场听众，听到口语诗从而改变了自己的诗风；2018年，《新诗典》西外中秋诗会，她获得＂校园诗人奖＂从而首次入典；2023年，她再次入典时已经从西班牙留学归来并在北京磨铁公司入职做编辑。希望她今后的写作与事业之路也能如此步步高。
高歌：这样的自由逃亡，却抵达了死亡……
徐江点评《新诗典》方妙红《死亡逃生》：与诗而言，新闻通常是无趣的，哪怕是某些奇闻。只有一种情况除外——当你用诗人的新奇目光看待整个世界。
标签：accident, animals, aquarium, berlin, broken, death, deaths, expensive, Fang Miaohong, fish, freedom, glass, hotel, NPC, people, suspect, 新世纪詩典, 方妙红
发表在 1990s, 1997, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, 2022, 2023, 20th century, 21st century, Antique times, December 2022, February 2023, Middle Ages, NPC, poetry, Translations, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
10月 17, 2018
Fang Miaohong
PRANK
When I was small
my favorite prank was
to ring the bell at someone else’s door
and run away
When you grow up
and ring the bell at someone’s door
you have to go in
Translated by MW, October 2018
伊沙主持 | 新世纪诗典8一周联展（2018.10.14——10.20）
标签：age, bell, childhood, door, Fang Miaohong, growing up, house, memory, NPC, people, poetry, 新世纪詩典, 方妙红
发表在 2018, 20th century, 21st century, NPC, October 2018, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
中国大好き 