《卡明斯诗选》【美】E. E. 卡明斯
▷美国诗坛顽童肯明斯(代序)余光中:https://shimo.im/docs/ZzkLMwVJbPHEQMAQ/
▷《等于5》前言
e. e.卡明斯
鉴于有人认为我的技巧要么复杂,要么原创,要么兼有,出版商出于礼貌要求我为这本书写一篇前言。
如果我有一个关于技巧的理论,那么它至少是远非原创的;也并不复杂。我可以援引burlesk viz的《永恒的问题与不朽的答案》中的一句话来表述,即“你想用个孩子拍到女人?——不,我会用砖头拍她”。像喜剧作家burlesk,我病态地喜欢那种创造出动感的精确。
如果诗人算个什么人,他就是那种任什么东西对他都不算什么的人——是那种痴迷于自己制造东西的人。和所有痴迷一样,对于制造的痴迷有弊;举例说,我对挣钱的唯一兴趣会是自己去造钞。好在幸运的是我宁可去造别的一切,包括火车头和玫瑰花。有了玫瑰花和火车头(更别提杂技演员春天电科尼岛七月四日老鼠的眼睛和尼亚加拉瀑布),我的“诗”就特能较劲。
它们互相之间也较劲,还与大象和埃尔·格列柯较劲。
对于动词的必然的专注和偏爱给了诗人一种无价的优势:当非制造者以2乘2等于4这样完全不可否认的事实来自我满足时,他却得意地享受着一个纯然不可抗拒的真理(它以一种缩略的形式出现在本书的书名页上)。
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anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did.
women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain
children guessed(but only a few
and down they forgot as up they grew
autumn winter spring summer)
that noone loved him more by more
when by now and tree by leaf
she laughed his joy she cried his grief
bird by snow and stir by still
anyone's any was all to her
someones married their everyones
laughed their crying and did their dance
(sleep wake hope and then)they
said their nevers they slept their dream
stars rain sun moon
(and only the snow can begin to explain
how children are apt to forget to remember
with up so floating many bells down)
one day anyone died I guess
(and noone stooped to kiss his face)
busy folk buried them side by side
little by little and was by was
all by all and deep by deep
and more by more they dream their sleep
noone and anyone earth by April
wish by spirit and if by yes.
woman and men(both dong and ding)
summer autumn winter spring
reaped their sowing and went their came
sun moon stars rain