Posts Tagged ‘Yan Yongmin’
三月 23, 2020
Yan Yongmin
YEAR OF THE PANDEMIC
We haven’t had very much contact,
but then this friend who researches old Chinese literature
suddenly calls me.
„This is the year of a pandemic,
you are a poet,
you have to write about this.“
I hasten to say, I am writing,
but after the call I’m a little uneasy.
If I hadn’t been writing,
how could I face my friend?
You start on this road of writing poetry,
there will be people watching.
No matter if you know it or not,
it’s like they’re shining a light on your face,
looking for the four letters for “poet”,
so can I take that, to be on the spot?
Translated by MW, March 2020
标签：attention, characters, disaster, disease, expectations, 闫永敏, face, history, language, letters, life, literature, memory, NPC, pandemic, people, poetry, poets, society, virus, watching, world, writer, writing, Yan Yongmin, 新世纪詩典
发表在 2000s, 2003, 2010s, 2020, 20th century, 21st century, Antique times, February 2020, Middle Ages, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
一月 26, 2018
Yan Yongmin
DICHTERINNEN
ein gutes dutzend dichter
im café im séparée
lesen vor
lauschen
beurteilen
zwei dichterinnen machen fotos
die männer sagen
lasst das
ihr sollt euch konzentrieren
die dichterinnen sagen
das macht nichts
sogar wenn wir schwanger sind
machen wir noch sehr viel
Übersetzt von MW im Januar 2017
标签：actions, art, concentrate, criticism, critique, 闫永敏, listen, meeting, men, NPC, photography, photos, poetry, poets, pregnancy, recite, women, Yan Yongmin, 新世纪詩典
发表在 2017, 2018, 20th century, 21st century, January 2018, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
十二月 17, 2016
Yan Yongmin
WHEN DO I WANT A BOYFRIEND?
not when I’ve cooked too much food for myself
not when I’m alone at the movies
not when I cannot move heavy stuff
not when my mom asks me to get married
not when I go to the hospital all by myself
not when I hug myself and cannot sleep
when I put on or take off a dress
the zipper at the back gets stuck in the middle
I think it might be nice to have a boyfriend
zip me up in the morning
zip me out at night
Tr. MW, December 2016
标签：boy, dress, 闫永敏, food, girl, health, heavy, light, man, marriage, motherhood, movies, moving, need, NPC, poetry, sex, sickness, sleep, want, woman, Yan Yongmin, zipper, 新世纪诗典
发表在 2016, December 2016, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
七月 24, 2016
Yan Yongmin
MILK DROPS
in the hospital garden
a milk box
lies in
a flower terrace
from the straw
milk keeps dripping
on the leaves
of climbing roses
Tr. MW, July 2016
Yan Yongmin
MILCHTROPFEN
im krankenhausgarten
liegt eine trinkpackung
milch
an der blumenterrasse
vom strohhalm
tropft es in die
rosenblätter
Übersetzt von MW im Juli 2016
标签：box, drops, 闫永敏, flowers, hospital, leaves, milk, NPC, poetry, straw, Yan Yongmin, 新世纪诗典
发表在 July 2016, NPC, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
四月 10, 2015
Yan Yongmin
HEART-BROKEN GROUND MEAT FOR PASTA
she was talking again about her stuff
I was falling asleep
but when she said for the first time
“my heart is broken like ground meat for pasta”
I woke up that moment
to tell her she’d said something very interesting
but she cried even more
Tr. MW, April 2015
标签：阎永敏, filling, food, ground, heart, heartache, Jiaozi, meat, pasta, poetry, sleep, words, Yan Yongmin, 新世纪诗典, 伊沙
发表在 April 2015, poetry, Translations, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
六月 10, 2014
Yan Yongmin
WHAT TO EAT ON THE GREAT WALL
Tomorrow I’m going to Beijing to see the Great Wall!
I couldn’t wait to tell my colleagues.
You better bring something to eat!
On the Great Wall, things are not cheap.
I’ll bring steamed Mantou
and Xian Cai sauerkraut.
You really want to lose face
up on the Great Wall?
I was joking.
I’ll bring milk and bread.
Tr. MW, June 2014
标签：beijing, eating, 闫永敏, face, food, great wall, the Great Wall, Yan Yongmin, 新世纪诗典
发表在 June 2014, poetry, Translations, 新世纪诗典 | Leave a Comment »
