Posts Tagged ‘foreigners’

人家陌生 people are strange

8月 7, 2025

人家陌生|维马丁

人家陌生
你是个生人
脸都是鬼脸
你一个人

女人是臭脸
人家不要你
路都是坎坷的
你想吐

你陌生
雨水里漂很多脸
你陌生
谁都不记得姓名
你陌生
你陌生

2025.8

 

《雪花飘飘》第366辑

本期诗人 伊沙 沈浩波 徐江 马非 赵克强 刘傲夫 江湖海 周永文 陈家声 梅花驿 二月蓝 邢昊 万德 马亚坤 书香 大康 陈小宁 夏微 居次 徐庆春 荷岸 师建军 喵小咪 未了因 蓝冰 任建明 白如冰 袁玉生 刘远望 李席林 马红光 可风 增粮 阿洛迦勒 君子 刘健 施工 艾妮克斯 卡卡 杨晚平 兰亭 赵根蒂 舒蔓 张金虎 韩艳艳 第一闲人 荒雨 崔军玲 张海宾 周鸣 李敬 老远 维马丁 苏传道 亚夫 大树 杜晓旺 刘效良 耘玮

 

 

不在 AWAY

6月 30, 2025

picture by Meng Zhi

AWAY

Away from the environment,
how do I write in Chinese?
Especially a foreigner!
Looking at photos
and videos,
I realize again
when friends take a picture
they want to remember,
remember beauty,
being together,
and also
the vapid aggression,
destruction and ruin.

MW June 28th, 2025

picture by Meng Zhi

不在
(给上苑艺术馆2025年艺术家)

维马丁

不在中文环境
很难写中文
尤其是老外
看到朋友照片
和视频
就更知道
朋友拍的
都是想记得
记得美
记得在一块
也记得
荒谬霸气
坠毁空虚

2025.6.28

picture by Meng Zhi

AWAY

Away from the environment,
how do I write in the language?
Especially a foreigner!
Looking at photos
and videos,
I realize again
when friends take a picture
they want to remember,
remember beauty,
being together,
and also
the vapid aggression,
destruction and ruin.

MW June 28th, 2025

 

英语也可以说任何语言,包括英语,离开了环境很难写出来。而那些荒谬等等,川普美国感觉也是。

In English I can talk about writing in any language, also English, while being away from the environment. I wrote this poem in Chinese in response to what happened last year and this year at a certain place in China. But the absurd aggression, the senseless destruction and ruin could also be Trump and Musk’s ‘work’, right? Or Putin and so on.

MAMA HAT UNS NIE GEKÜSST – 唐果 Tang Guo

12月 8, 2024

Tang Guo
MAMA HAT UNS NIE GEKÜSST

Mama hat uns nie geküsst,
sie sagt, die Zeit war hart, es gab nicht einmal genug zu essen.
Papa hat uns nie umarmt,
er sagt, die Zeit war hart, es gab nicht einmal genug zu essen.

Mama hat uns gehalten, aber nicht umarmt.
Sie sagt, die Zeit war hart, es gab nicht einmal genug zu essen.
Papa hat gebrüllt, er konnte nur brüllen.
Er sagt, die Zeit war hart, es gab nicht einmal genug zu essen.
Mama hat sich die Kehle heiser geschrien.
Sie sagt, die Zeit war hart, es gab nicht einmal genug zu essen.
Papa hat zugeschlagen, darin war er gut.
Er sagt, die Zeit war hart, es gab nicht einmal genug zu essen.

Übersetzt von MW im Dezember 2024

磨铁诗歌奖·2023年度最佳诗歌100首|唐果《妈妈没吻过我们》入选理由:非常厚的一首诗,厚重如史诗,或者说,这本来就是一首史诗。不光厚重,而且巧妙,情感充沛而又匠心独具,整首诗只有三段,只有八节,却层层推进,如同波澜翻滚,看似写了一个家庭,实际上写出了整整一代人。(磨铁读诗会/沈浩波)

HE WAS SPECIAL POLICE IN XI’AN – 沈浩波 Shen Haobo

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磨铁诗歌奖·2023年度最佳诗歌100首|沈浩波《他在西安当特警》入选理由:这首诗又是沈浩波“深度叙述”的代表作。“深度叙述”像一张平实、结实、充满细节的大网,能将读者一点点带入深度的阅读体验,但读者的主动参与必不可少。“特警”和“兵马俑”,两个充满象征意味的词,在这首诗的内部互相冲撞;动作、神态、心理活动等细节,在叙述过程中像一个个精准有力的节拍,引导读者深入诗的内核。当诗结束,留给读者的是广阔的感受和思考空间。深度叙述的极致客观,使得沈浩波的很多诗笔调很冷,但其内在是充满情感的。(磨铁读诗会 / 方妙红)

磨铁诗歌奖·2023年度最佳诗歌100首|唐果《带着响的》入选理由:这首诗通过写风的形状,进而写出了声音的形状,而这风、这声音又包裹着诗人的身体,而这身体(有可能会)咣咣铛铛滚下楼梯。唐果在预见一种痛感,在感知那戏剧性的一幕,她很擅于写自己内心的声音,尤其擅于写她主动制造出来的内心的动静——“带着响的”才是活的,即便带着响地摔下去,也能打破生活的死寂。(磨铁读诗会/里所)

磨铁诗歌奖·2023年度最佳诗歌100首|沈浩波《于恺和黎洵》入选理由:这首诗两行一节,干脆利落,写出了于恺和黎洵这对诗歌爱侣的快意人生,写出了一种可以同生共死的爱情。用叙述呈现情感,不在言说中暴露情感,是沈浩波近年诗歌的明确追求之一,这首诗紧扣细节,每一行都贴着于恺黎洵的行动和语言,最终在探戈醉舞般的叙述中,呈现了一种激情和深情。(磨铁读诗会/里所)

磨铁诗歌奖·2023年度最佳诗歌100首|沈浩波《当她们优雅地摆动髋部》入选理由:一首赞美少数民族本土文化的抒情诗是怎么写出新意的?沈浩波运用缤纷的修辞和结实的语言,从形、色、声等感官层面,以及抽象层面,充满激情地展现了一座独特的城市带给他的强烈印象。这种印象是充满动态感的:布料生长,翻涌;花色被热情催动,刺激人的瞳孔;裁剪声如雨水,如阳光;穿上花裙的她们,像是带动着城市跳舞。这首诗的每一句都言之有物,每一段都是具象的、充实的,没有落入传统抒情诗空洞的窠臼。诗的尾句,“当她们优雅地摆动髋部 / 喀什就在跳舞”,是这首诗完全绽放的瞬间!(磨铁读诗会 / 胡啸岩)

磨铁诗歌奖·2023年度最佳诗歌100首|尚仲敏《我来了》入选理由:近年来的尚仲敏,正一年比一年强烈地爆发他的诗歌小宇宙,他正在写一种新的、过去没有过的口语诗。我不知道有没有其他人意识到这一点,尚仲敏为口语诗创造了一种新的风格,非常现代、独属于他自己、别人很难模仿的风格。他的诗非常真实,极其市井和社会,但里面有一种天然的戏谑、荒诞和反讽,再往诗的内部读,往往还有藏得很深的情感。就好像这首《我来了》,写得非常生动,但仅仅是生动吗?仅仅是好玩吗?仅仅是幽默吗?不,其中藏了很多东西,简直心事苍茫连广宇。(磨铁读诗会/沈浩波)

Xiron Poetry Club

 

信息 INFORMATION

8月 28, 2024

信息

你说我提供的
信息不够
我说得看

如果你在

布拉迪斯拉发
或科希策
等等小城

斯洛伐克
或奥地利
或匈牙利
也许看到
或看不到
也许知道

多少人死
多少人活
四十人走
一个人回
不那个人
他也不在
有新的房子
有纪念碑
纪念牌
六十年后
七八十年

中国呢
发生了什么
现在呢
你在的时候
完全不同
感觉不同
有那么多
也那么美

那么做朋友
多时候有

没有人受伤
她一直唱
废墟里唱
山上也唱
没有人受伤
每人都受伤
每人都有
伤痕不同

在的时候
真朋友圈
感觉多好

当外国人
活在异乡
人家都当
当陌生人

我在我国
当陌生人
一直都有
还是不同

2024.8


INFORMATION

You say I don’t give enough information.
It always depends.
If you are there in Bratislava,
In Kosice, in the small towns,
In Austria, in Hungary.
Maybe you see, maybe not.
Maybe you know
how many died, how many survived.
One in forty came back.
No, even those aren’t here.
There are new houses.
There are memorials
sixty years late, seventy, eighty.

What happened in China?
What is happening now?
It’s very different
when you are there.
The feeling is different.
You know you don’t know,
you don’t know most of it.
But there is so much.
So much beauty.

So much companionship,
most of the time.

Nobody was injured,
she sings in her song,
there in the ruins,
up on the mountain.
No one was injured.
Everyone was.
Everyone is
in different ways.

It’s great to be there
among the people
most of the time.
To be a stranger
in a strange land
among many strangers
in their own country.

I am a stranger
in my own country
most of the time.
But I’m not sure,
not like in China.
It is just different.

MW August 2024

 

HE WAS SPECIAL POLICE IN XI’AN – 沈浩波 Shen Haobo

8月 18, 2023
Picture: Huang Kaibing

Picture: Huang Kaibing

 

Shen Haobo
HE WAS SPECIAL POLICE IN XI’AN

When important foreigners came,
he was assigned
to guard the Terracotta Warriors.
He and his comrades
stood at attention
for several hours,
not moving a muscle
except blinking
maybe once per minute.
The foreign guests
exclaimed excitedly
that they looked like
“The Terracotta Army alive”.
He was 18
and thought that was
a huge commendation,
he felt greatly
honored.

Translated by MW in August 2023

 

第66届口语诗奖 | 口语诗周刊 | 第187期

 

他在西安当特警

沈浩波

重要外宾来访
他被调去
给兵马俑站岗
他和战友们
站得笔直
几个小时
一动不动
眼睛一分钟
只眨一次
令外宾们
啧啧惊叹
说他们是
“活着的兵马俑”
那年他十八岁
觉得这是
莫大的夸奖
内心充满了
荣誉感

 

 

口语诗

编委 ‖ 西毒何殇  王有尾  朱剑

日期 ‖ 2023年第23期 ‖ 总第187期

轮值主编 ‖ 朱剑

 

CHRISTMAS MEMORY – 伊沙 Yi Sha

12月 29, 2019

Yi Sha
CHRISTMAS MEMORY

In the early 1990s
the city I live in
didn’t celebrate Christmas.
The college I teach at did,
a foreign languages campus.
It was more like each class had it’s own party,
students and their foreign teachers
singing foreign Christmas carols
into the air from the classroom building
and into the sky looking for snowflakes
to sing with in harmony.
I would stop and listen,
feeling the civilization and beauty
patching my still raw wounds inside.

2019
Translated by MW, December 2019

 

 

圣诞之忆 | 伊沙

在1990年代初期
我所在的城市
是不过圣诞节的
我任教的大学
一所外语学院过
更像是各班在开联欢会
学生与他们的外教
用外语唱的圣诞歌
从教学楼的窗口飘出来
为天空中有或没有的雪花
唱出和声
引我驻足倾听
感觉到文明与美好
内心的新伤在愈合

 

 

 

 

 

YOUR POETRY – 阿煜 – DEINE GEDICHTE

6月 25, 2019

A Yu
DEINE GEDICHTE

Ich hab sie ganz vorne ausgebreitet,
Amichai, Auden, Achmatowa,
Dickinson, Mark Strand,
Rilke, Sexton, Pessoa.
Nur lauter Lyrik.
Sowohl als Verkäufer als auch als Dichter
weiß ich natürlich
die Leser sind nicht allzu viele.
Aber ich rücke das Zeug in die Mitte.
Am nächsten Tag hab ich frei
und bekomm eine Nachricht von gestern abend
von meinem Kollegen für Literatur.
“Damit wir heute mehr Bücher verkaufen
hab ich deine Gedichte alle versetzt.”

Mai 2019
Übersetzt von MW im Juni 2019

 

 

A Yu
YOUR POETRY

I displayed in front of the counter
Amichai, Auden, Akhmatova,
Dickinson, Mark Strand,
Rilke, Pessoa, Sexton,
all poetry collections.
Both as bookseller and as a poet
I know very well,
these books don’t have too many readers.
But I still put them right in the center.
Next day in my break time
the evening shift literature colleague
sends me a note:
“I moved all your poetry,
so we sell some more books.”

May 2019
Tr. MW, June 2019

 

 

 

WANG WEI’S GRAVE – 王维墓

5月 10, 2019

Martin Winter
WANG WEI’S GRAVE

Wang Wei’s Grave.
Key research zone,
No entrance!
Something with aviation.
Wang Wei up in heaven
smiles at the foreigner
who brings a child
under his tree,
the gingko he planted,
father & son hiding under their hoods,
stealing close
to his stone
to read his poetry
in language from far, far away.

Written in Chinese on April 13, 2019
on location, a factory site near Xi’an.
Translated in Mai 2019

《王维墓》

维马丁

王维墓
科研重地
禁止入内
好像跟航天有关系。
王维在天上
笑着看见
在他种的
银杏树下
有外国诗人
还带孩子
都戴上帽子
偷偷靠近,
对他的幕牌
用外语
读他的诗。

2019,4,13

 

 

EINKÄUFER MIT ZIGARETTE – 唐欣

4月 20, 2017

Tang Xin
EINKÄUFER MIT ZIGARETTE

1972, auf einer Zugreise
sieht ein Einkäufer einen Stand
mit Waren für ausländische Gäste.
Neugierig erkundigt er sich über den Preis
einer Zigarettenmarke. Ein Ausländer lächelt,
vielleicht aus Mitleid. Jedenfalls,
der Einkäufer ist tief getroffen. Niemand
darf auf Chinesen herabsehen! Niemand!
Ohne zu zögern kauft er eine Packung,
verwendet mehrere Monatsgehälter
(er trägt öffentliche Gelder bei sich),
aber wovon sollen er und seine Familie
in nächster Zeit leben?  Er spürt eine Träne
und zündet sich eine Zigarette an,
durch den ganzen Waggon geht ein eigenartiger Duft.

März 2017
Übersetzt von MW im April 2017

GEWONNEN 我們赢了

5月 28, 2016

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GEWONNEN

es riecht nach sommer
vor ein paar tagen
haben wir gewonnen
es riecht nach sommer
eine frisch gemähte wiese
österreich hat gewonnen
gegen deutschnationale ausländerfeinde
also gegen die nazis
eine frisch gemähte wiese
warum haben wir so knapp gewonnen
sie sagen die eu sei korrupt
aus prinzip
sie sind nationalisten
kleingeister
kleinformat
neoliberal
die eu hat wirklich versagt
jean-claude juncker
ist in panama
schon in den 90er jahren
hat die eu nichts gemacht
gegen den krieg
in jugoslawien
ist die eu in panama?
ist die eu neoliberal?
was denn sonst?
es ist sommer
warum haben wir so knapp gewonnen?

MW Mai 2016

”融合协议“ – INTEGRATIONSVEREINBARUNG

5月 29, 2015

《“融合協議”》

45歲,德語為母语
在科技公司教德語寫作
就没當地護照。
雖然嫁給當地人
每兩年要簽證。
“初级德語文憑帶了嗎?“

2015.5.27, 维也纳

INTEGRATIONSVEREINBARUNG 45 yrs native speaker teaching writing for scientists But no EU passport Haben Sie einen B1Nachweis?

INTEGRATIONSVEREINBARUNG Muttersprachlerin, 45 unterrichtet wissenschaftl. Schreiben ohne EU-Pass Haben Sie 1 B1-Nachweis?

CHOPCHOPCURRYPOK IS CHARLIE HEBDO

2月 4, 2015

Chopchopcurrypok_is_Charlie_HebdoPlease click on the picture!

This is a very good article. One of the few very inspiring responses to these horrible attacks in Paris. I was involved in another response – I translated a text by Liao Yiwu 廖亦武, a Chinese writer in exile in Germany. I put it in a blog post here some two weeks ago, along with words by “Charb” from Charlie Hebdo and others. Liao Yiwu’s text first appeared in German in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. It is also available in English, on the website of the German Book Trade Organization. This response should equally be read by as many people as possible! Thank you very much, Soh Wee Ling! I went demonstrating in Vienna on January 11, and again on Friday, January 30, when the xenophobe Neo-Nazis had their ball in the historic halls of the Hofburg in Vienna, overlooking the Heldenplatz where Hitler spoke to eradicate Austria in 1938, cheered by thousands. We were around 5000-6000 at least all over the centre of Vienna, although the police had cordoned off a large area and many people had been arrested and criminalized last year. No windows broken this time, and hardly anyone injured. Some people always get angry, and there are Neo-Nazi sympathizers in the police and in parliament. And they have been tolerated and cosseted, and they were in government 2000-2006. Recently an editor of the newspaper Der Standard, which has been very much against the fascists, has actually suggested that the Social Democrats should consider working with the F-Party. In Germany, their slogans would not be allowed, and some of their leaders would be in prison. On the other hand, we have a cherished tradition of fierce satire in Austria. I read an article by the Jewish French-German writer Gina Lustiger, published in Die Welt. She also said, just like you Soh Wee Ling, that the Charlie Hebdo cartoons were aimed at the average French citizens, including the cartoonists themselves. She said she missed them very much, missed their incisive humour. And she emphasized that unless the French Jewish victims were equally respected, even if their relatives had them buried abroad, people had not understood what this was about. Unless you can imagine Charlie as a Turkish woman in a head scarf at a funeral in Jerusalem, she said. Thank you very much again!