Teck Seng Chow

生

Poemas

• 1 纪念日 | Traduções : ende
• 2 我们对着鱼缸说国语 | Traduções : en
• 3 散步乃悟之三重境界 | Traduções : ende
• 4 每天的功课 | Traduções : en
• 5 做家务 | Traduções : ende
• 6 生 | Traduções : en
• 7 爱情 | Traduções : en
• 8 15岁的班级照 | Traduções : ende
• 9 当灵感逮捕了诗人 | Traduções : enfr

língua: chinês

Traduções : inglês (Living)

生
一朵花、一座山与一张明信片

当我念出“生”的字音时 
一念完我们便开始死亡 
接着，闹哄哄的重生  再安静死去

当我们用生最复杂的声音
在客体的躯壳中以灵魂的形态存活时
我们是明信片中最简单的山 

当我用山间最简单的颜色
为明信片贴上思念时
我是小镇的客栈   

Traduções :

língua: inglês

Living
A Flower on a Mountain in a Postcard

I voiced the word "living" 
yet we started dying  
as the sounds began fading 
reborn into a clatter, and in silence, ceased being.   

Our souls briefly resided 
in borrowed flesh and bones 
as a cacophony of voices 
imprinted on postcards, as the simplest ridges we stand.   

I used the most basic colours 
of the mountains to affix 
reminiscences onto postcards, 
in time, as the guesthouse in town I shall remain.  

Teck Seng Chow

周德成

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* , Singapore, Cingapura
vive em: Singapore, Cingapura

Chow Teck Seng aka Zhou Decheng was born in Singapore. He is the recipient of the 2014 Singapore Literature Prize and 2009 Singapore Golden Point Award in Chinese poetry.

Besides publishing his latest poetry collection ‘The Story of You and Me’ in 2012, his poems and short stories have appeared in English and Chinese anthologies, local and overseas Chinese press, journals and online platforms.

In 2015, his sequence poem “The 5 Shades of Solitude” was adapted into an anime short. A multilingual poem, “We Speak to Fish Using National Languages” (2015) witnesses a hybrid use of Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Teochew, Malay and English, in addition, works as an ekphrasis that underlies a meta-narrative structure.

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A featured writer in the 2015 New Delhi Book Fair, 2014 London Book fair and 2012/2014-6 Singapore Writers’ Festival, his poems were translated and published in English and French for the 2012 Festival Franco-Anglais de Poésie, Paris.

An exco-member of the Singapore Association of Writers and a current PHD student at Cambridge University (in literary criticism and comparative Sinophone literatures), he is also working on projects in translated poetry.

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