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A. F. Moritz has written eighteen books of poems, and his work has been accorded various recognitions. "The Sentinel" (2008) received the Griffin Poetry Prize, the largest prize in the English-speaking world for a volume of poetry. He has three times been a finalist for Canada's national literary prize, the Governor General's Award, and has received the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Poetry
A. F. Moritz
You chose the right path in life
though as it assures you it abashes you
with crushing beauty—like these lines of Neruda
you desire the way at eleven you desire a girl.
To write just one verse like that. To know
the fruitful softness, the whispering of shadows
in light-sprinkled entrances, the female
strangeness of their male force.
As Neruda’s century passed and the astonishment
his coming had aroused decayed, in you it grew.
As the dead fall away, the living is laid bare
more living. You look up from his book
and are in a world more world, and you look up
from that new world and are in his book
more book: another earth, another early home
and childhood. He shelters as he overshadows,
an old brother still a child himself.
You two are orphans, and guarding you through forests
and the eyes of crowds he reaches manhood,
and yet he’s still the youth of the good promise,
alpha point of unhewn roads. You feel
abundance and the void rise alert, tender
as they watch him pass and engulf him – a love so dark
you have to long to pierce it repeatedly.
你选择人生正确的路途
虽然它破碎的美
宽慰你也困惑你
— 就像聂鲁达的这些诗句
你渴望如同十一岁渴望一个女孩。
写一首那样的诗。了解那果实般的柔软，
光线洋溢的入口处的阴影私语，
其中男性力量的女性神秘。
聂鲁达的年代已去，他的来临唤起的惊愕
朽化了，在你这里却生长。
随着死的逝去，活着的被裸露
越发生动。从他的书籍你仰望，
你在一个世界的更多的世界里，
你从这个新世界仰望，
你在他的书籍的更多的书籍里：
另一个地球，另一个儿时的家园
和童年。他庇护也掩盖，
一个兄长，自己也还是一个孩子。
你们两个是孤儿，引导你穿过森林
和人群的眼睛，他抵达成年，
但仍然是美好承诺的青春，
未凿之路的起始点。
当她们看着他经过并吞噬他，
你感觉丰沛和虚空升起警惕，温柔 —
一种漆黑深切的爱，
你不得不渴望反复地穿戳它。 |
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