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XI Chuan

围海造田

  • 1 围海造田 | Translations: de
  • 2 传统和鬼 | Translations: de
  • 3 习惯性想象 | Translations: de
  • 4 关于原子弹的对话 | Translations: de
  • 5 碰巧的人 | Translations: de
  • 6 尽量不陈词滥调地说说飞翔 | Translations: deen
  • 7 西川省纪行 | Translations: deen
  • 8 不要剥夺我的复杂性 | Translations: de
  • 9 悼念之问题 | Translations: deen
Language: chinese
Translations: german (maßnahmen zur landgewinnung)
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围海造田

围海造田之后新土地需要七年的积沉方可使用
围海造田者需要七年光阴才能安然于占领了一小片大海

这新土地上新植的树木尚未获得自然的授权
无自然授权,新树木就不会获得“树林”的感觉

飞鸟、昆虫和青蛙不愿以此为家,无论建设者怎样加班加点
海风吹过,像吹过时光停滞的停车场或者垃圾场

月照垃圾场不会比月照万里河山缺少诗意
但月照七年海滨垃圾场会让月亮的诗意获得更多的内涵

七年之痒或七年喧闹,一些看似幸福的家庭会解体
曾经相爱的人互道拜拜之后,负疚心终会接纳天高云淡

在云天之下另觅新欢的不仅是受伤的情种
做买卖、玩政治的也会从新的合伙人身上发现新的人生观

爱大笑或时常伤感的人会在七年光阴中变得麻木
而附近的街道会一直变脸,只是投机分子不会错过每一天

荀子站在新造的土地上说:“人定胜天!不过,
天,需要七年光阴才会认可你围海造田。”

浮士德站在新造的土地上面对七年的荒芜忽有落寞之感
不禁抱怨起养尊处优的歌德简单理解了沧桑世变
2017.6.6

© XI Chuan
Audio production: Haus für Poesie, 2019
Categories: society, economy, poetry & poets, landscape

Translations:

Language: german

maßnahmen zur landgewinnung

nach jeder landgewinnungsmaßnahme muss sich das neue land sieben jahre lang setzen, bevor es weiterverwendbar ist.
wer neuland gewinnen will, muss sieben jahre lang warten, bevor er ein kleines stück meer bewohnen kann.

bäume, die man auf neuem land pflanzt, hat die natur noch nicht autorisiert.
ohne autorisierung der natur auch kein besonders autoritäres waldgefühl.

vögel, frösche und insekten weigern sich, solche bäume als heimat zu sehen. egal, wie viele überstunden ihre schöpfer reinbuttern,
der seewind wird über diese bäume wehen wie über einen stillgelegten parkplatz; wahlweise auch wie über eine müllhalde.

der mond über einer müllhalde ist genauso poetisch wie der mond über einem weit entfernten gebirge,
aber ein mond, der sieben jahre lang über einer müllhalde mit meerblick scheint, erweitert seine poetischen qualitäten enorm.

ob im verflixten oder im verlärmten siebten jahr, es gibt ehen, die wirken glücklich und halten nicht.
erst wenn die ex-lover sich verabschiedet haben, ist in ihren reuigen herzen wieder platz für gutes wetter.

bei schlechtem wetter suchen nicht nur verletzte romantiker die natürlichste sache der welt anderswo;
auch manager und politiker können aus neuen partnerschaften ganz neue dinge über die menschheit erfahren.

nach sieben jahren sind die traurigsten und die fröhlichsten menschen abgestumpft,
und wenn alle straßen jeden tag anderswo hinführen, dann nur, damit die opportunisten jeden tag richtigliegen.
als xunzi auf neuem land stand, sagte er: der mensch kann die natur bezwingen,
aber die natur wird sieben jahre brauchen, bevor sie seine landnahme anerkennt.

als schiller auf neuem land stand, sieben jahre unkontrollierten wildwuchs im blick, fühlte er sich plötzlich sehr einsam
und unweigerlich wütend darauf, dass der verwöhnte goethe so einfach die großen wandlungen der welt durchdrang.

6. juni 2017

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XI Chuan

西川

photo © Haus für Poesie
* 16.03.1963, Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, China
lives in: Beijing, China

XI Chuan is a Chinese poet, essayist and translator. Born in 1963 in Jiangsu province, he graduated from the English Department of Peking University in 1985. Previously a visiting adjunct professor at New York University (2007), an Orion visiting artist at University of Victoria, Canada (2009), and professor of Chinese literature at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing,he is currently a distinguished professor of Beijing Normal University.

 photo © Mirko Lux
Xi Chuan has published nine collections of poems, including Depth and Shallowness (2006) and A Dream’s Worth (2013), two books of essays and three books of critical writings, in addition to a play and numerous translations of Ezra Pound, Jorge Luis Borges, Czeslaw Milosz, Gary Snyder and others.
His awards include National Lu Xun Prize for Literature (2001), Cultural China: Person of the Decade (2001-2011) by Shanghai Oriental Morning Post, Swedish Cicada prize for poetry (2018), Japanese Tokyo Poetry Prize(2018). He was also one of the top ten winners of the 1999 Weimar International Essay Prize Contest, Germany. His work has been widely anthologized and translated and published in more than twenty countries.
His book of poems in English translation Notes on the Mosquito: Xi Chuan /Selected Poems (tr. Lucas Klein) published by New Directions, New York, 2012, was awarded ALTA’s 2013 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize and was shortlisted for American 2013 Best Translated Book Award.

Publications
  • 致敬 [Zhijing]

    (Prose poems)

    1992

  • 西川诗选 [Xi Chuan shi xuan]

    (Selected poems)

    1995

  • 虚构的家谱 [Xugou de jiapu]

    (Poetry)

    1997

  • 大意如此 [Dayi ru ci]

    (Poetry)

    1997

  • 让蒙面人说话 [Rang mengmian ren shuo hua]

    1997

  • 西川的诗 [Xi Chuan de shi]

    (Poetry)

    1999

  • 鹰的话语 [Ying de Huayu]

    (Prose poems)

    1999

  • 水渍 [Shuizi]

    (Prose poems & Essays)

    2001

  • XI Chuan: Die Diskurse des Adlers. Gedichte und poetische Prosa

    (arcus chinatexte, Bd. 20)

    Aus dem Chinesischen von Brigitte Höhenrieder, Peter Hoffmann und dem Tübinger Arbeitskreis Chinesiche Literatur

    Bochum: projektverlag, 2003

  • 游荡与闲谈:一个中国人的印度之行 [Youdang yu xiantan: Yi ge zhongguo ren de yindu zhi xing]

    (Essays)

    2004

  • 深浅 [Shenqian]

    (Poetry & Essays)

    2006

  • 个人好恶 [Geren Haowu]

    (Poetry)

    2008

  • 大河拐大弯 [Dahe guai dawan]

    (Essays)

    2012

  • Notes on the Mosquito: Xi Chuan

    Selected Poems

    Translated by Lucas Klein

    New York: New Directions, 2012

  • 够一梦 [Gou yi meng]

    (Poems & Prose poems)

    2013

  • 我和我。西川 1985–2012 [Wo he wo. Xi Chuan 1985–2012]

    (Selected poems)

    2013

  • 小主意 [Xiao zhuyi]

    (Poetry)

    2014

  • 开花 [Kaihua]

    (Poetry)

    2015

Awards
  • 2001 National Lu Xun Prize for Literature

  • Cultural China: Person of the Decade (2001-2011) by Shanghai Oriental Morning Post

  • 2018 Cicada prize for poetry (Sweden)

  • 2018 Tokyo Poetry Prize

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