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Live Encounters Poetry & Writing English-Chinese Edition January 2023
Not The Music, poem by Lorna Crozier.
Not the music
Not the music.
It is this other thing
I keep from all of them
that matters, inviolable.
I scratch in my journals,
a mouse rummaging through cupboards,
nibbling on a crust of bread, apple skins,
chewing the edges of photographs, the small
details of a life. I hoard and save,
place one thing inside another
inside the next.
Start with the prairie, then Horizon
and inside it our house,
the kitchen, the table where I sit
with my journal, and inside it
everything I write – dust, moths,
wind speaking in whispers
across the page,
the absence of rain,
forgiveness –
everything shrinking
to the smallest
thinnest letter,
I.
不是音乐
不是音乐。
是这个我瞒着所有人
的其他东西—
事关重大，不可侵犯。
我在日记本上涂抹，
一只老鼠在橱柜里翻找，
啃着面包皮、苹果皮，
咬着照片的边缘，生活中的
细小枝叶。我囤积和保存，
置放一件东西在另一件里面
在下一件之中。
从大草原开始，然后是地平线，
我们的房子在里面，
厨房，我所坐的桌子
和我的日记，以及里面
我所写的一切：尘埃、飞蛾，
窃窃私语掠过书页的风，
缺席的雨，
宽恕—
一切的一切缩减
到最小的
最薄的符号，
我。
Chinese translation © Anna Yin/© Lorna Crozier
罗娜·克洛泽是加拿大勋章获得者，她对加拿大文学的贡献、她的教学和指导得到广泛认可，荣获五个荣誉博士学位，最新的来自麦吉尔大学和西蒙弗雷泽大学。她的书获得了许多国家奖项，包括总督文学诗歌奖，环球邮报推荐《奇迹之书：日常事物汇编》为年度百本图书之一。亚马逊将她的回忆录选为一生中应该阅读的100本书 之一。作为维多利亚大学的名誉教授，她曾为英国女王伊丽莎白二世演出，并在除南极洲外的各大洲朗诵她的诗歌，这些诗歌也被译成多种语言。她的书《灵魂不想要什么》被提名为2017年总督诗歌奖。2018年，罗娜-克洛泽获得了乔治-伍德科克终身成就奖。史蒂文-普莱斯称《穿过花园—一个爱情故事（与猫）》，她最新的非小说类书籍，”我们这个时代的伟大爱情故事之一”。罗娜-克洛泽住在温哥华岛。 歌奖。她的最新诗集《Shape Taking》于 2021年出版。她的跨流派卡夫卡探索作品集将在2023年由格尔尼卡出版社出版。她目前在安大略省Thornhill生活和工作。
An Officer of the Order of Canada, Lorna Crozier has been acknowledged for her contributions to Canadian literature, her teaching and her mentoring with five honourary doctorates, most recently from McGill and Simon Fraser Universities. Her books have received numerous national awards, including the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry. The Globe and Mail declared The Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things one of its Top 100 Books of the Year, and Amazon chose her memoir as one of the 100 books you should read in your lifetime.
A Professor Emerita at the University of Victoria, she has performed for Queen Elizabeth II and has read her poetry, which has been translated into several languages, on every continent except Antarctica. Her book, What the Soul Doesn’t Want, was nominated for the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. In 2018, Lorna Crozier received the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award. Steven Price called Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats), her latest nonfiction book, “one of the great love stories of our time.” Lorna Crozier lives on Vancouver Island.