HAN Bo

现代性器

Language: chinese

Translations: german (modernes werkzeug), english (Modernity Tool), russian (Орудие современности)

现代性器

当代：有时，她
住在临时里。现代
是格林尼治时间
擒住的铁轨，着急，
茶汤咬盏。有时，
她强拆人造的现代，
她住在自焚念头
的当代里：黑烟甩
向俄国，进步的
等死之物无从拆起。

（2011/7/3 上海）

Translations:

Language: german

modernes werkzeug

gegenwart: ab und zu wohnt sie
im vorübergang. moderne: ein
gleis, von greenwich-zeit als
wohnung genommen, nervös,
tee an tasse genippt. ab und zu
erzwingt sie den abriss der
konstruierten moderne, wohnt
dann in einer gegenwart, die
an selbstverbrennung denkt:
schwarzer rauch schwappt
nach russland. dinge des
fortschritts kann man nicht
abreissen, sie erwarten den tod.

(Shanghai, 7. März 2011)

Language: english

Modernity Tool

The contemporary: Now and then, she
lives within the momentary. Modern times
mean Greenwich Mean Time
lives lived caught on the tracks, anxiety,
tea foam nipping at its bowls’ walls. Now and then,
she demolishes man-made modern times,
she lives within the self-immolation of the thought
of the contemporary: black smoke pours
toward Russia, progress’s
awaiting death cannot be torn down.

Language: russian

Орудие современности

наше время: временами оно живёт
во временном. широкая современность —
это гринвичским временем самовольно
захваченная ж/д колея. нервная спешка —
чай, покусывающий стакан за края. временами
она сносит самострой современности
и живёт в нашем времени, мыслящем
самосожжениями: чёрный дым сносит
обратно в россию. продвигаясь вперёд —
выученное ожиданию смерти всё снесёт.

3.07.2011, Шанхай

HAN Bo

韩博

photo © Mike Schmidt

* 23.01.1973, Mudanjiang, China
lives in: Shanghai, China

Han Bo, born in 1973, works as editor of a magazine in Shanghai and is counted as one of the best young poets in China.

He has published several collections of verse and edited an anthology of contemporary Chinese poetry. His poetry is marked by a sober and innovative language which counters the strongly sentimental tradition in China and at the same time builds bridges between classical Chinese verse and the present. His long stream-of-consciousness poems draw readers in like a camera journey and show the influence of his work as a dramatist as well as a poet.
In 2009 he attended the International Writers Workshop in Iowa, his plays have been performed in China and the USA and his poems have earned him awards including the Liu Li'an Prize for Poetry.

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