在樹與非樹之間

　　This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-two titles published for 2015 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2015 is “Poetry and Conflict”. 21 international poets from 18 different places are invited to participate in recitations, symposia and sharing sessions of the Poetry Nights. A recitation focusing on 10 local Hong Kong poets, “Hong Kong Cantonese Poetry Night” is included. This collection seeks to make accessible the best of contemporary international poetry with outstanding translations.

作者簡介

艾棘‧米索

　　以色列著名詩人，創意寫作教師。米索出版了16本詩集，其中兩本是回顧集，分別出版於2003和2015年。她的詩曾被改編成音樂，並翻譯成多國語言出版，包括《Look There》（英文）、《Journal du verger》（法文）、《Ropa Tendida》（西班牙文）以及《Şheherezada》（羅馬尼亞文）等。米索曾獲得總理獎、阿米亥詩歌獎等多個獎項。2015年，她被提名為特拉維夫大學榮譽博士，獲取意大利「勒里奇皮亞詩歌獎」。米索居住在特拉維夫的一個農莊。她在耶路撒冷大學取得碩士學位，後於特拉維夫大學和耶路撒冷希伯來大學教創意寫作，目前擔任特拉維夫「赫利孔」詩歌學校校長。

　　Agi Mishol is an established Israeli poet and creative writing teacher and has published sixteen volumes of poetry. Some of her poems have translated into many languages, including Look There (in English, by Graywolf Press), Journal du verger (in French, by Caratères), Ropa Tendida (in Spanish, by Poesía Mayor), and Şheherezada (in Romanian, by Institutul Cultural Român). Mishol has received the Prime Minister’s Award, the Yehuda Amichai Prize and many other awards. This year, she was nominated by Tel Aviv University as Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa and received the Lerici-Pea prize in Italy. Mishol is currently the director of the “Helicon” school of poetry in Tel Aviv.

當時

當我們愛得無邊無際，上帝
來拿他應得的
我們扔紿他一個輕輕的微笑因為我們覺得
他不值更多

凝視著遙遠的距離，當時我們相信
愛的蛋糕：
小塊油炸薄餅
渴望七載豐年

失去生長出的翅膀
只為那第一個跳入
深淵的人
沒有他們

（林婧 譯）

Back Then

When we loved without margins and God
came to take his due we threw him a faint smile
thinking he deserved
no more.

Long distance gazers, we put our trust in cakes of love:
little fried crepes
of lust
for the seven
good years

forfeiting wings that grow
only for those who first jump
into the abyss
without them.

(Translated by Lisa Katz)