一聲巨響 A Loud Noise

Following the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2013, The World of Words is a collection of selected works by some of the most internationally acclaimed poets today. The poem of "A Loud Noise" by Han Dong (China) is finest contemporary poetry in trilingual or bilingual presentation.

韓東，1961年5月17日生，1982 年畢業於山東大學哲學系。詩人、小說家、劇作家。著有詩集《白色的石頭》、《爸爸在天上看我》、《重新做人》；中、短篇小說集《我們的身體》、《我的柏拉圖》、《明亮的疤痕》、《美元硬過人民幣》、《此呆已死》；長篇小說《扎根》、《我和你》、《小城好漢之英特邁往》、《知青變形記》、《中國情人》； 電影劇本《在清朝》、《北京時間》、《愛你一萬年》等。2012 年他出版了雙語詩集《來自大連的電話》。

曾獲「劉麗安詩歌獎」、「華語文學傳媒大獎長篇小說獎」、「高黎貢文學節主席獎」、「金陵文學大獎」，以及「曼氏亞洲文學獎」提名。

Han Dong was born in 1961, and graduated in philosophy from Shandong University in 1982. He is a poet, novelist and screenwriter.His chief works include the poetry collections White Stones (《白色的石頭》), Dad’s Looking Down on Me from the Sky (《爸爸在天上看我》), and Becoming a New Person (《重新做人》); the short story and novella collections Our Bodies (《我們的身體》), My Plato (《我的柏拉圖》), Bright Scars (《明亮的疤痕》) , The Dollar Beats the RMB (《美元硬過人民幣》), and This Moron is Dead (《此呆已死》); the novels Striking Root (《扎根》, translated as Banished!, published by the University of Hawai’i Press), Me and You (《我和你》), A Small Town Hero Strides out (《小城好漢之英特邁往》), Metamorphosis of an Educated Youth (《知青變形記》), and A Chinese Lover (《中國情人》); the screenplays A Touch of Sin (《在清朝》), Beijing Days (《北京時間》), and I’ll Love You Forever (《愛你一萬年》). A bilingual volume of his poems, A Phone Call from Dalian (《來自大連的電話》), was published by The Chinese University Press and Zephyr Press in 2012.

Han Dong has won the Liu Li’an Poetry Prize, the Chinese Language Media Prize for Novels, the Gao Li Gong Literary Festival Chairman’s Prize, and the Jin Ling Literary Prize.《扎根》(Banished!) was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize.

1.一聲巨響 Aloud Noise 6

2.來自大連的電話 A Phone Call from Dalian 8

3.冬天的荒唐景色 Absurd Winter Scene 11

4.半坡即景 Banpo Scene 15

5.橫渡伶仃佯 Crossing the Lingdingyang, the Lonely Sea 17

6.在水上 From the Water 22

7.綠樹、紅果 Green Tree, Red Fruit 24

8.起霧了 It’s Foggy 26

9.侍母病 At My Mother’s Bed-Side 30

10.老人 Old Woman 32

11.克服寂寞 Overcoming Loneliness 34

12.一些人不愛說話 some People Don’t Like to Talk 36

13.小巷裡 The Alley 38

14.賣雞的 The Chicken-Seller 40

15.老樓吟 Dirge of the Old Building 42

16.工人的手 The Worker’s Hand 46

17.這些年 These Past Few Years 48

18.小姐 Waitress 52

19.走走看看 Walking and Looking 54

20.我們坐在街上 We Sat on the Street 58

21.報紙 Newspaper 60

一聲巨響

 

一聲巨響

我出去查看

什麼也沒有看見

 

一小時候

我發現砧板

落在灶臺上

砸碎了一隻杯子

 

砧板絲紋不動

杯子的碎片也是

靜靜的

 

當初砧板掛在牆上

杯子在它的下面

也是靜靜的

 

A Loud Noise

 

A loud noise

I went out to check

Nothing

 

An hour later

I discovered the chopping board

Fallen on the cook top

A broken cup

 

The chopping board lay still

Fragments of the cup were also

Quite quiet

 

The chopping board used to hang on the wall

The cup beneath it

Both quite quiet

 

(Translated by Nicky Harman)