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Issue 2---Fiction & Poetry栏目原文推荐帖
Poetry:
(编者注:整理诗歌摘要弄得我头大,也很难准确把握每首诗歌的内涵,在此截取诗歌首段,以供各位译友认领时参考:-P )
The Way
---The sky is random. Even calling it “sky”
is an attempt to make a meaning, say,
a shape, from the humanly visible part
of shapelessness in endlessness. It’s what
we do, in some ways it’s entirely what
we do—and so the devastating rose
……
Eclogue
---In Juno Beach, on Pelican Lake,
Joseph Saul ate potato chips off a paper plate
and fed the broken bits to a duck.
He was accompanied by Laurie McGraw,
……
Electra Woman
---You come home to find Electra Woman
and Dyna Girl in bed. You know they’ve been up
to something. Freddie the Flute’s all sticky.
It is, you might say, disconcerting.
……
Tag
---Insatiable April, trees in place,
in their scraped-out place,
their standing.
Standing way.
……
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
Romanesque
———Morning: smells of serious cooking float in the street.
Onions give up the ghost, flesh sizzles, a metal spoon
clinks on a dish. We’ve lived here for eight hundred years,
we’re still hungry. Ancient mosses nibble the stones.
We found such fierce ways to love.
……
The Virgin King
———They know so much more, and so much less,
“innocent details” and other. It was time to
put up or shut up. Claymation is so over,
the king thought. The watercolor virus
sidetracked tens.
……
17
———after crashin the sportscar
into the chandelier
i ran out t the phone booth
made a call t my wife. she wasnt home.
i panicked. i called up my best friend
but the line was busy
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Names
———Be mindful of names.
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Fiction:
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl(共6页) ---Short story about an elderly Chinese professor who arranges a marriage between her middle-aged son and a lonely former student. Writer describes a date between Hanfeng, who was forty-four, and Siyu, thirty-eight. Hanfeng’s mother had been Siyu’s zoology professor in college. Hanfeng had recently returned from years…
The Idiot President(共6页)(已由lihe认领,招募合作翻译) ———Short story about a man who does a two-month stint with a theatre group called Diciembre. When the narrator was first out of the Conservatory, he did a two-month stint with a theatre group called Diciembre. It was an established company that had formed during the anxious years…
Three(共8页) ———Short story in which the narrator recalls three people who died within six months of each other: her mother-in-law, a painter of murals, and a philandering handyman…
The Noble Truths of Suffering(共8页) ———Short story about a Bosnian man’s encounter with a famous American novelist in Sarajevo. The American Ambassador’s house in Sarajevo was a huge, ugly thing. Inside, however, all was asparkle. The narrator grabbed a glass of beer and a flute of champagne and assumed a corner position at the crowded…
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