Posts Tagged ‘race’
3月 13, 2025
Photo by Maja Linnemann
巴黎墓园
巴黎最著名的墓园
有很多外国人
有爱尔兰诗人作家
奥斯卡·王尔德
和美国歌手
吉姆·莫里森
有一些华人
外面墙上有在一战
死去巴黎人的名单
游客不少
我们碰到
英国中学生
他们德语不错
都喜欢足球
还学会了
专门词汇
种族歧视
墓园很文明
不过王尔德
坟墓的雕像
也受到破坏
2025.2
Photo by Maja Linnemannn
PERE LACHAISE
Last week I wrote a poem
after we walked in Père Lachaise,
the cemetery in Paris.
The one with the stars.
Like Abelard and Heloise.
Yeah, I didn’t know they were there.
There is a book with their letters.
They wrote in Latin.
Anyway we met students from England,
high-school students.
Their teachers had given them maps.
It was cold.
I shouldn’t have been outside.
I know that now.
Rasenvorurteile!
Ich liebe Fußball!
Yeah, they knew German,
some of it sounded quite good.
They were from Leicester,
at least some of them.
Rasen means lawn.
There is another rasen,
it means to rage.
Or also road rage.
But what they had learned was another word.
Race prejudice.
Rassenvorurteile.
Yeah, with two s.
Double s in the races.
Yeah, off to the races,
Hamsterwheel,
Lilo and Stitch.
That is a story
against prejudice,
more or less,
mostly harmless.
Abelard and Heloise
was a different story.
Not really for kids.
But yeah, rather deep,
like much in the cemetery.
There are Chinese graves.
One still had wreaths
from a recent burial.
My poem was in Chinese,
the one from last week.
In the end we found Oscar Wilde
or near the end.
The end was ashes
sprinkled on pieces of lawn
near the north exit.
Without prejudice,
hopefully,
but rather orderly.
There were stones to remember
very grave things
somewhere else.
There was one about Ruanda.
The north exit is near Belleville.
But we went straight home
to our friends’ apartment.
We were cold and tired.
Keep your eyes on the road
and your hands upon the wheel,
and may God protect you,
or whatever spirit.
It is a spiritual place.
MW March 2025
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标签：ashes, belief, believe, body, children, cold, contact, conversation, destruction, football, France, grass, health, high school, history, lawn, literature, massacre, memory, music, Oscar Wilde, Paris, people, prejudice, race, rocks, school, sex, soccer, spirit, spirits, sports, Stones, talk, traces, violence
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12月 2, 2024
NianBu
TODAY I AM HAPPY
Close to the Chinese-Japanese Hospital
I call the owner of a hotel,
saying I may want to stay three, four days.
He says he has singles for a good price,
with windows and air conditioning.
When I arrive at the hotel,
the boss looks at my face
and says, you must be a minority person.
I am Tibetan, I say.
The boss says sorry,
they check the rooms here at night,
people from Xinjiang and Tibet can’t stay.
I ran into something like this years ago.
I got very angry,
had drunk some alcohol,
so I beat up that boss.
But today
I don’t want to get into a fight.
My feelings are more peaceful than ever.
Because today
my son was born.
Translated by Martin Winter on December 1st, 2024
磨铁诗歌奖·2023年度最佳诗歌100首|念布《今天我很快乐》入选理由：一首在平静的叙述中藏着汹涌波澜的诗；一首在本应愤怒的事件中传达出欢愉的诗；一首在欢愉的内心氛围中将愤怒和委屈暂时掩藏的诗；一首读来令人五味杂陈的诗；一首内涵丰富，具有内心层次的诗；一首将个人日常生活中的欢乐与深刻的民族遭遇碰撞到一起的诗；一首既是私人的又是公共的诗；一首冷静、克制、锐利而又充满温情的诗；一首好诗，来自藏族的九零后年轻诗人念布。(磨铁读诗会/沈浩波)
磨铁诗歌奖·2023年度最佳诗歌100首|念布《我在房间里挂了四个监控》入选理由：生活在北京的藏族青年诗人念布有着敏锐的诗感，再加上他多元复杂的文化背景，他的诗歌很好地展现了现代城市生活与自我精神世界之间的碰撞。监控与禁忌，慧眼与唐卡，当这些元素一起出现，诗也就出现了。因为一颗虔敬的心，念布从日常生活中得到了这首诗，并且以一种幽默可爱的方式将之写了出来，巧妙又自然。（磨铁读诗会/里所）
磨铁诗歌奖·2023年度最佳诗歌100首|明迪《女书》入选理由：这首诗让我再次意识到，曾经人类几千年的文字原来几乎都是“男书”，不管在东方还是西方，女性进入书写表达系统的时代都到来得太迟了。面对性别觉醒等重大议题，明迪以“女书”，这种明末清初（或更早）诞生于湖南江永县的女性书写符号为切入点，写出了女性寻求自我表达的努力，并且写得如此浪漫，像一段轻盈利落的舞蹈，但柔中带着坚定的力量：“女字，歪歪斜斜/如蚊子一般细小/她们拒绝方块形状/拒绝方块意志”——希望通过明迪这首诗，能有更多身处我们这个时代的人，能看见“她”的意志、“她”的需求和“她”的创造。（磨铁读诗会/里所）
磨铁诗歌奖·2023年度最佳诗歌100首|明迪《战争 女性 经书》入选理由：战争是一个很重的主题，女性亦是一个很重的主题，宗教还是一个很重的主题，明迪这首诗的题目里，就同时包含着三个很重的主题，不禁令人为她捏一把汗——该如何处理？但她竟处理得如此轻巧而自然，在短短十三行中将这三个很重的主题融为一体，浓缩进一位女性分娩的时刻。在以巴战争的背景下读此诗，更觉沉重。明迪是一位国际化的汉语诗人，她可能是跟世界诗歌连接最深的中国诗人，她的诗中有浓郁的世界背景。她也确实擅长写大的主题，重的主题。诗歌当然需要重音，明迪是摁响重音键的那一位。（磨铁读诗会/沈浩波）
Xiron Poetry Club
标签：anger, camera, cameras, CCTV, child, control, culture, 磨铁读诗会, danger, discipline, endangered, equality, face, faces, family, happiness, hearts, hotel, joy, language, love, memory, middle east, minds, Ming Di, minorities, NianBu, people, poetry, privacy, race, religion, skin, society, tangka, Tibetan, war, women, worry, Xinjiang, 念布, 明迪
发表在 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, 2023, 2024, 20th century, 21st century, December 2024, Middle Ages, November 2024, poetry, Translations, 沈浩波 | Leave a Comment »
9月 18, 2022
Xidu Heshang
ERSTER SEIN
Fahrkisten im Osten?
Nein, er verflucht
gern Faschisten im Westen.
Aber was wenn
Fapisste im Süden
Fakiffte im Norden
auch noch dazu kommen?
Dann muss er kämpfen
mit seinen Faschisten
als ganz großes Stichwort
ganz oben zu bleiben.
2022-09-17
Übersetzt von MW im September 2022
《比赛第一》
西毒何殇
别看法东斯
平常喜欢
骂法西斯
但是如果有
法南斯和法北斯
加入进来
那他首要任务
就是搞积分
争排名
上头条
（2022-9-17）
第35届口语诗奖｜口语诗周刊｜第152期
标签：characters, competition, directions, east, 西毒何殇, Far East, Fascism, fighting, headline, headlines, history, language, languages, memory, north, race, society, sound, south, talk, talking, translation, war, west, words, Xidu Heshang
发表在 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, 2021, 2022, 20th century, 21st century, Middle Ages, poetry, September 2022, Translations, 朱剑 | Leave a Comment »
6月 23, 2020
Zhao Zhuangzhi
FIRST FLOOR
On the dormitory’s first floor,
conditions are worst.
Moss on wooden doors,
rust on window bars.
From outside, passing the windows,
I see three special rooms,
with their own bathroom,
doors and windows aluminum,
Simmons mattress.
A black student
wielding a club
to chase a mouse
that ran in from the Chinese students next door.
6/12/20, Zhanjiang
Translated by MW, June 2020
标签：animals, color, colors, colour, colours, conditions, dormitory, 赵壮志, history, international contact, international relations, memory, mouse, NPC, people, prison bars, race, rats, students, universities, Zhao Zhuangzhi, 新世纪詩典
发表在 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2019, 2020, 20th century, 21st century, April 2020, December 2019, February 2020, January 2020, June 2020, March 2020, May 2020, Middle Ages, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
7月 29, 2019
Hu Xin
NATIVE SPEAKER CLASS
In our native speaker class we have a black teacher
just gleaming white teeth walking towards us
very friendly wants to shake hands one on one
Students next to me fearfully pull in their heads
I jump right up
and give him my hand
and say
hello
All that’s left are panicky faces
like Halloween masks
6/25/19
Translated by MW, July 2019
标签：color, culture, custom, Halloween, Hu Xin, NPC, people, politeness, race, students, teaching, University, 扈鑫, 新世纪詩典
发表在 2019, 20th century, 21st century, July 2019, June 2019, Middle Ages, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
9月 25, 2018
“WELT BLEIB WACH”
Welt, bleib wach
sagt meine Werbung für Thalia.at
Ich mag Buchhandlungen
Maybe they have Mary and the Witch’s Flower
or we’ll get it in China
Thalia is big enough
the main one at Wien Mitte
to have stuff in English and DVDs
and other languages maybe
I dream of a bookstore
with Turkish Arabic Czech and Hungarian
Slovac Italian Hebrew Slovenian
and many other books
in Vienna
a chain store
maybe Thalia even
that would be something
to stem the tide
of people glued to their smartphones
or screens with ebooks
from Thalia.at
maybe just a little
MW September 2018
I HATE UTUBE TUTORIALS
i hate my tube tutorials
i hate your tube tutorials
i hate his tube tutorials
i hate her tube tutorials
i hate its tube tutorials
i hate our tube tutorials
i hate your tube tutorials
i hate their tube tutorials
maybe we should have our tubes tied
just kiddin’
is there a tutorial for poetry?
MW September 2018
SOMEONE SAYS THERE ARE MORE EMOTIONS THAN THERE ARE EMOJIS
In a quick ad they say that very quickly
in German they are so excited
there is an extra r
Es gibtr mehr Gefühle als Emojis
Who cares
people ain’t gonna read any more books
if you tell them books are cooler than movies
or things on a screen
which could be books
or poetry
Anyway
sell your books
more power to you
Your campaign in German is rather retro
Welt, bleib wach
sounds like something from 1932
Afterwards
everyone knows
world didn’t stay awake, not enough
Racism
Fascism
Stalinism
Maoism
Neoliberalism
ILLIBERAL DEMOCRATIC
STRONGMANISM
Just how long would you have to stay awake
with a nice book
from the chain store
with this nice ad
to prevent
anything
I have a poem about emojis
no, it’s not written in emojis
it’s in Chinese
I translated it into German
its a very nice poem
They have it up in the streetcars
and buses in Stuttgart
Maybe two more months
I still don’t have a photograph
They sent me two posters
they also sent two posters to China
and a very nice letter
Poetry doesn’t prevent anything
Mao wrote poetry
Stalin wrote poetry
Don’t know if Mussolini
wrote poetry
or Tojo or Franco
or that fucking German Austrian fart
Emojis are nice
Emojis are not competing with books
The poem is by Jiang Xinhe
she was 14
when she wrote it in 2017
The poem is called USELESS CHINESE
that’s a short version
MY CHINESE IN SCHOOL IS USELESS SOMETIMES
On a train through the desert
I add
an Uighur boy on my WeChat
When I’m back in Shenzhen we say hello
but I don’t understand Uighur
and he doesn’t understand Chinese writing
Talking doesn’t work out either
so we can only send emojis
We have used every emoji available
all the way down
now
we are starting again
from the top
7/8/2017
So what’s your emotion
after reading this poem?
Do you know
what’s going on about Uighurs
in China?
Right now, in 2018?
The camps
must have been there
in 2017, last year,
some of them.
Hundreds of thousands, some say one million
mostly men and boys
caught up in camps
for re-education.
Women, too.
So where is that boy now?
I am afraid
to ask the poet.
MW September 2018
SCHADE
schade um kern
schade um die spö
schade um österreich
schade um wien
aber hauptsache
die u6
wird steril
MW September 2018
HEIMATLAND
schwiegersohn und sicher kein nazi
aber ein rechter mann für die wirtschaft
koaliert mit
abgehalftertem ex-neonazi
und konsorten
und die machen zusammen
die entsprechende politik.
oder soll ich’s vielleicht
netter sagen?
naja, es gibt noch den präsidenten
und lokal gibt’s auch noch ganz viel
und lokale gibt’s auch noch ganz viele.
MW September 2018
HEIMATLAND II
das kinderfreibad in wien ist sehr schön
ich mein das im dritten bezirk
über den gürtel
also vielleicht schon im zehnten
nicht weit vom elften
im schweizergarten
nicht weit von der welt
nämlich von der autobahn
vom hauptbahnhof sowieso
alte bäume
ein schönes gelände
heuer haben sie modernisiert
neue klos
alles größer
dort hinten war früher ein basketballring
jetzt im september sind keine leute
endlich hat es richtig geregnet
aber die sonne ist noch genug
MW September 2018
HEIMATLAND III: MARILLENKNÖDEL
marillenknödel
marillenknödel
noch einen
marillenknödel
noch einen
marillenknödel
noch einen
marillenknödel
noch einen
marillenknödel
noch einen
marillenknödel
sind es schon acht
noch einen
ich weiß ich hab
mindestens acht vertragen
MW September 2018
标签：advertisement, asia, austria, awake, bath, books, brand, buses, camps, chairman, chairperson, china, Chinese, company, dumplings, education, Europe, Fascism, Germany, history, Jiang Xinhe, language, media, memory, name, NPC, people, poetry, politics, posters, public transport, race, racism, re-education, season, slogans, social media, society, Stalin, streetcars, Stuttgart, Thalia, Uighurs, understanding, Uyghurs, Vienna, world, writing, 姜馨贺, 新世紀詩典
发表在 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 19th century, 2000s, 2003, 2010s, 2017, 2018, 20th century, 21st century, Antique times, August 2018, JULY 2017, July 2018, Middle Ages, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
4月 6, 2017
Xi Wa
MY HIDDEN UGLINESS
I carry two bags of vegetables
coming out of Oakleigh supermarket
and crash into a guy with brown skin.
I wasn’t careful.
I apologize to him,
and he invites me for a drink.
My first reaction
is after the drink
if he wants to sleep with me what shall I do?
He does have deep eyes and a tall nose,
and smells of vetiver,
my favourite scent.
If he had white or yellow skin,
I wouldn’t refuse him outright
in this way.
I thought I had already moved beyond
racism.
Yes, that was before I had concrete thoughts
of going to bed
with one of them.
2/14/17, Melbourne
Tr. MW, April 2017
标签：accident, Australia, china, colour, concepts, drink, 西娃, gender, life, men, NPC, poetry, race, sex, skin, thinking, travel, women, Xi Wa, 新世纪诗典
发表在 2017, April 2017, Februar 2017, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
2月 23, 2016
VERHALTEN IM BRANDFALL
oh wie so trügerisch
verhalten im brandfall
oder auch aggressiv
je nachdem
du kannst es nicht wissen
kommt darauf an
so überlebte
geschlecht um geschlecht
MW 2015-2016
标签：aggression, emergency, fire, gender, holocaust, know, life, manual, poetry, race, reticence, sex, survive, unknown
发表在 December 2015, February 2016, January 2016, November 2015, October 2015, poetry, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
4月 18, 2015
Yi Sha 《柏林1936》
BERLIN 1936
I imagine
I am standing at the chairman’s rostrum
where hitler stood
but from up there you see it more clearly
all those kinds of olympic events
all sorts of people doing their best
no way of telling overall quality
how could he have arrived at
superiority of the german race?
he was a politician
for a raving politician
what does sport count after all?
he is so selfless
he can forget on the whole square
he’s the most meager ghost of them all
a pathetic born clown
2008
Tr. MW, April 2015
Yi Sha
BERLIN 1936
ich stell mir vor
ich steh auf der plattform des vorsitzenden
dort wo hitler stand
aber von oben seh ich noch deutlicher
in allen sparten der olympiade
tut jeder sein bestes
alle arten von menschen
wie war es möglich wie kam er
zur überlegenheit der germanischen rasse?
er war ein politiker
was bedeutet der sport
für einen politiker mit minderwertigkeitskomplex?
er ist so selbstlos
vergisst dass er auf dem riesigen platz
der allerkleinste magerste teufel ist
der geborene clown
2008
Übers. v. MW, 2015
《柏林1936》
我瞎想
自己是站在主席台的正中央
希特勒的位置上
反而能够看得更加清楚
在奥运会所设的所有项目中
各个人种各显其能
绝无优劣高下之分
怎么能够得出
日尔曼是优等人种的结论
问题在于他是政客
在一个丧心病狂的政客眼中
体育又算得了什么
这个政客如此忘我
忘记了自己是全场
最为瘦小枯干的一个鬼
还天生一副小丑的模样
2008
标签：Beijing 2008, chairman, Fascism, history, poetry, politics, race, sport, square, yi sha, 伊沙
发表在 April 2015, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
中国大好き 