沒胳膊的男人 The Man Without Arms

This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-four titles published for 2017 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2017 is “Ancient Enmity”. IPNHK is one of the most influential international poetry events in Asia. From 22–26 November 2017, over 20 invited poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong to read their works based on the theme “Ancient Enmity.” Included in the anthology and box set, these unique works are presented with Chinese and English translations in bilingual or trilingual formats.

平田俊子，當代著名詩人，作家。生於島根縣，畢業於立命館大學文學部。1983年獲得第一屆《現代詩手帖》「現代詩新人獎」後，引起詩壇關注。1984年出版第一部詩集《報恩的薤》以來，相繼出版有《大西洋極樂世界裡的水鹽味淡！》、《同夜晚胖的女人》、《快活夫婦》、《信轉雨》、《現代詩文庫•平田俊子詩集》（思潮社）等詩集。其中詩集《終點站》獲得「晚翠詩歌獎」、《詩歌一星期》獲得「萩原朔太郎詩歌獎」。另外，還出版有多部小說集，其中《兩人乘坐》獲“野間文藝新人獎”，以及散文集《昨日的露珠》和戲劇集《走運的收音機》等。2016年最新詩集《戲言的自由》（思潮社2015年）獲得第26屆紫式部文學獎。2003年曾與詩人谷川俊太郎、作家高橋源一郎三人合出的《活在日語中》（岩波書店）一書中，以每人創作一篇小說、一首詩和寫一個劇本之創意，給日本文壇帶來了不少新的刺激。她的詩歌作品「在讓故事性與詩歌的形式相抗衡的同時，以卓越的幽默感把潛伏在日常生活中的恐怖表面化」。1999年在NHK電視臺舉辦的全國規模「詩歌拳擊」比賽中，以語言和即興詩作擊敗詩人白石嘉壽子獲勝而成為日本媒體一時關注的話題。

Toshiko Hirata 平田俊子 (Japan 日本)
Hirata Toshiko is a poet and novelist. During the 1980s, she, along with Hiromi Itō, emerged as one of the foremost voices so-called “women’s boom” of poetry. Her poetry is known for its directness and black humor. Tāminaru (Terminal), the 1997 anthology from which most of the poems translated here came, won the Doi Bansui Prize for poetry. She has also won the Hagiwara Sakutarō Prize for poetry for her 2004 collection Shi nanoka (Poetry on the Seventh Day/Is This Poetry?). In recent years, she has increasingly turned to writing novels, which often feature ordinary people in bizarre circumstances that lead them to question the traditional family system and the spots allotted to them in society. Among her many novels are Piano sando (Piano Sandwich, 2001), Futari nori (Two on Board, 2004), which won the Noma Literary Prize for New Writers, and Watashi no akakute yawarakana bubun (My Soft, Red Place, 2007).

ひ‧と‧び‧と 8

人們

P-E-O-P-L-E

 

腕のない男 14

沒胳膊的男人

Man Without Arms

 

カメラ 20

照相機

Camera

 

寒い春 29

寒春

Cold Spring

 

ゆれるな 35

別搖晃啦

Do Not Tremble

 

宝物 41

寶物

Treasure

 

私見 ゴッホの「寢室」 50

觀梵高的「寢室」有感

Van Gogh’s Bedroom as I See It

別搖晃啦

 

搖晃了吧

今天也搖晃了吧

以前不知道

地球是暴亂的搖籃

大人和孩子都無法安睡

是故意使壞的搖籃

 

是三月啊 是春天啊

卻不知是春眠之際

本來應該是溫柔的季節

但今年的春天

搖晃著

讓人無法安睡

 

地球啊 你啊

無論其麼時候

開心就好了

搖晃的事

就交給風吹過的花兒

院子裹晾的衣服吧

你只要

天真地旋轉

 

搖晃地球的東西

化成泡沫消失吧

別搖啦

別搖

別

別

別！

 

Do Not Tremble

 

It trembles

It is trembling again today

I did not know that the earth

Is an unruly cradle

A cruel cradle that lets

Neither adult nor child sleep

 

It is March, it is spring

It should be a gentle season of vernal sleep

When one sleeps so deeply there is no dawn

But spring this year

Shakes us to keep us

From falling asleep

 

Earth, it is enough

For you simply to

Keep spinning happily

Leave the trembling

To windblown flowers and

Laundry hanging in the year

You should simply spin

Innocently

 

Those forces that shake the earth

May you turn to bubbles and disappear

Do not tremble

Do not trem

Do not tre

Do not

Not

No!