罗伯特·勃莱诗7首

罗伯特·勃莱(Robert Bly)曾被认为是“美国诗歌的主要力量”之一。一九五八年他创办《五十年代》杂志（后来依次改为《六十年代》、《七十年代》、《八十年代》），成为反学院派的一个集合点。他战后定居于明尼苏达州的一个农场，主要靠诗歌朗诵和翻译谋生，迄今已出版了十多部诗集（其中《身体周围的光》首获美国全国图书奖），三十多本译诗集，其中包括我国诗人陶渊明和白居易的自然禅意作品。勃莱是影响过大批当代中国青年诗人的美国诗人之一。他提倡“自然语言”，力图反璞归真；他强调诗歌的音乐性和“内在力量”，认为听众和读者与诗歌的相遇就是人与世界的相遇，他还认为现代世界多夺走了语言的意义和情感，而诗人的职责就是要将其还原。他的诗把拉丁美洲现代诗歌、欧洲超现实主义诗歌和中国古典诗歌熔于一炉，成为“奔流在中西部大平原下深部的、突然长出来的树干和鲜花”，在二十世纪后半期体现出很强的生命力。

饮马

抛掉全部野心？想着就陌生！

可突然间，我目力如此敏锐，

看到了马鬃毛上

新落着白色的雪片！

久劳之后

伏案数周，始得出门闲步。

月去星沉，脚下耕作的泥土；没有一丝光痕！

假若有一匹马从这片开阔之地向我奔来？

不是独自度过的每一天都是浪费！

残月

月亮三周大，它的光伸到了我父亲的农场，

它暗了一半，挂在蚕食它的西天。

大地含着石块，听它们在凌晨时浅唱。

我转身入屋，看到我的影子向门闩伸手。

情诗

我们相爱时，爱青草、

谷仓，爱灯柱、

以及那被人遗弃的街道，

不宽、彻夜无人。

八月艳阳

一缕缕阳光穿过百叶窗。

几只待复信件的小筐

懒散在椅子上。

肯定有个傻瓜住在这儿。

深夜开车去镇上寄信

很冷的雪夜。干道大街不见一人。

动着的，惟有雪的旋转纷落。

我掀起邮筒门时感觉到那冷冷的铁。

这样的夜晚有一种我喜爱的独处之私。

我开车转着圈子，想再浪费点时间。

A Short Biography of Robert Bly

Robert Bly was born in western Minnesota in 1926 to parents of Norwegian stock. He enlisted in the Navy in 1944 and spent two years there. After one year at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, he transferred to Harvard and thereby joined the famous group of writers who were undergraduates at that time, which included Donald Hall, Adrienne Rich, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, Harold Brodky, George Plimpton, and John Hawkes. He graduated in 1950 and spent the next few years in New York living, as they say, hand to mouth.

Beginning in 1954, he took two years at the University of Iowa at the Writers Workshop along with W. D. Snodgrass, Donald Justice, and others. In 1956 he received a Fulbright grant to travel to Norway and translate Norwegian poetry into English. While there he found not only his relatives but the work of a number of major poets whose force was not present in the United States, among them Pablo Neruda, Cesar Vallejo, Gunnar Ekelof, Georg Trakl and Harry Martinson. He determined then to start a literary magazine for poetry translation in the United States and so begin The Fifties and The Sixties and The Seventies, which introduced many of these poets to the writers of his generation, and published as well essays on American poets and insults to those deserving. During this time he lived on a farm in Minnesota with his wife and children.

In 1966 he co-founded American Writers Against the Vietnam War and led much of the opposition among writers to that war. When he won the National Book Award for The Light Around the Body, he contributed the prize money to the Resistance. During the 70s he published eleven books of poetry, essays, and translations, celebrating the power of myth, Indian ecstatic poetry, meditation, and storytelling. During the 80s he published Loving a Woman in Two Worlds, The Wingéd Life: Selected Poems and Prose of Thoreau,The Man in the Black Coat Turns, and A Little Book on the Human Shadow.

His work Iron John: A Book About Men is an international bestseller which has been translated into many languages. He frequently does workshops for men with James Hillman and others, and workshops for men and women with Marion Woodman. He and his wife Ruth, along with the storyteller Gioia Timpanelli, frequently conduct seminars on European fairy tales. In the early 90s, with James Hillman and Michael Meade, he edited The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, an anthology of poems from the men's work. Since then he has edited The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford, and The Soul Is Here for Its Own Joy, a collection of sacred poetry from many cultures.

Recent books of poetry include What Have I Ever Lost by Dying? Collected Prose Poems and Meditations on the Insatiable Soul, both published by Harper Collins. His second large prose book, The Sibling Society, published by Addison-Wesley in hardcover and Vintage in paperback, is the subject of nation-wide discussion. His collection, Morning Poems (Harper Collins), named for William Stafford’s practice of writing a poem each morning,revisits the western Minnesota farm country of Bly’s boyhood with marvelous wit and warmth. He has recently published The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine (Henry Holt) in collaboration with Marion Woodman. His new selected poems, Eating the Honey of Words, has recently appeared from Harper Flamingo, as well as his translations of Ghalib, The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib (with Sunil Dutta) from Ecco Press. He has also edited the prestigious Best American Poetry 1999 (Scribners).

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