公園裏的死者 The Dead in the Garden

This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-two titles published for 2015 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2015 is “Poetry and Conflict”. 21 international poets from 18 different places are invited to participate in recitations, symposia and sharing sessions of the Poetry Nights. A recitation focusing on 10 local Hong Kong poets, “Hong Kong Cantonese Poetry Night” is included. This collection seeks to make accessible the best of contemporary international poetry with outstanding translations.

加桑‧扎克坦，巴勒斯坦詩人、小說家和編輯。扎克坦曾出版11本詩集，其中《牠像稻草鳥一樣跟著我》（菲迪．祖達譯）曾獲得2013年格里芬詩歌獎，同年6月獲巴勒斯坦總統頒予國家榮譽勛章，以誌扎克坦對阿拉伯及巴勒斯坦文學的建樹與貢獻；同年秋又獲得諾貝爾文學獎提名，呼聲甚高。扎克坦曾入選奧克拉荷馬大學頒發2014紐斯塔特國際文學獎（該獎被譽為美國的諾貝爾獎）與2015謝赫‧扎耶德文學獎。扎克坦的詩給翻譯成多國語言，包括英文、法文、意大利文、挪威文和德文等。

Ghassan Zaqtan is a Palestinian poet, novelist and editor. He is author of eleven collections of poetry. His book Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me translated by Fady Joudah was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2013. He was awarded the National Medal of Honor by the Palestinian president in June the same year. He was also nominated among the short-listed winners of the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 2015 Sheikh Zayid Literature Prize. His work has been translated into English, French, Italian, Norwegian, German and other languages.

枕頭 6

A Pillow

 

集體死亡 9

Collective Death

 

公園裏的死者 12

The Dead in the Garden

 

不過一首歌 15

Just a Song

 

黑馬 18

Black Horses

 

墜落山下的敵人 24

An Enemy Comes Down the Hill

 

果園的歌 30

The Orchard Song

 

果園看守的歌 36

Song of the Orchard’s Watchman

 

卡瓦菲斯的工匠們 42

Cavafy’s Builders

 

一如流亡者的習慣 45

Alone and the River Before Me

 

曠野裏你不是唯一 57

You’re Not Alone in the Wilderness

枕頭

 

時間是否還足夠我對她説：

晚上好啊，媽媽

我回來了，一顆子彈中了心臟。

那是我的枕頭，

我想好好歇息。

吿訴別人：

他在休息

即便戰爭已叩響我們的門。

 

（唐珺 譯）

 

A Pillow

 

Is there time left

for me to say to her

Good evening Mom

I’m back

with a bullet in my heart

and that’s my pillow

I want to rest.

 

And Mom

if war knocks

say

he’s taking a rest

 

(Translated by Fady Joudah)