广陵散 / Ancient Tune of Guangling

BY Bai Hua
TRANSLATED BY Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Chinese

一 / 一个青年向深渊滑去 / 接着又一个青年……
幸福就快报废了 / 一个男孩写下一行诗
唉，一行诗，只有一行诗 / 二十四桥明月夜
二 / 冬天的江南 / 令你思想散漫，抓不住主题
肴肉、个园、上海人 / 热气腾腾的导游者
照像吧，照像吧 / 他冻红的脸在笑
1993年2月

English

I

A youth slides off towards the abyss
followed by another

Bliss is soon outmoded
A boy writes a verse

Alas, a verse, just a verse
Twenty-four bridges in a moonlit night

II

Winter in the south
scatters your thoughts, they can’t find a theme

Bacon, Geyuan Garden, Shanghai folks
a tour guide is steaming with enthusiasm

Photo, photo
His frozen red face is smiling

February 1993

 

Biography

柏桦，1956年1月出生于重庆。1982年，大学毕业后，辗转于多所大学教书。1992年，辞去教职，成为自由撰稿人。2004年，再入大学，现为：西南交通大学艺术与传播学院中文系教授。

Considered the central literary figure of the post-Obscure (post-“Misty”) poetry movement during the 1980s, BAI HUA ( 柏桦 ) was born in Chongqing in 1956. After graduating from Guangzhou Foreign Language Institute in 1982, he taught at various universities before working as an independent writer in 1992. He returned to teaching in 2004 and currently serves as a professor at Southwest Jiaotong University in Sichuan.

FIONA SZE-LORRAIN (Greta Aart) is an editor of Cerise Press.

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