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Richard Greene is a poet and biographer. His third collection of poems Boxing the Compass (Montreal: Signal, 2009) won Canada's most prestigious prize, The Governor General's Literary Award. His fourth collection Dante's House (Montreal: Signal, 2013) has just been released. He is a professor at the University of Toronto and lives in Cobourg, Ontario.

理查德•格林是一个诗人和传记者。他的第三本诗集《搏击罗盘》（Montreal: Signal, 2009）荣获加拿大最负盛名的奖项总督文学奖。他的第四本诗集《但丁的房子》（Montreal: Signal，2013年）2013年10月出版。理查德是多伦多大学的教授，住在安大略省的Cobourg。



Beside the Funeral Home

Richard Greene

Twice a month, I watch special delivery
Of modish coffins for customers anxious
Not to be caught dead in the ordinary

Or to neglect the last public decencies
And thus send parent, aunt or cousin abroad
Again with no mark of comfort or success.

The undertaker’s under-men gravely load
Each empty coffin onto a folding cart
And then walk it from the alley to be stow

Behind a show-room where any broken heart
Costs twelve grand and death looks like a Pontiac,
Chrome -detailed and rust-proofed in every part.

But once cigarettes are stubbed on the sidewalk
And a monk in saffron robe has struck the gong
The cortege is led out by the Cadillac.

Cars reach slowly into traffic and are gone,
A sad departure for these new arrivals,
From a funeral home that calls itself “Wing On.”

殡仪馆旁

理查德•格林

每月两次我目睹特别运送
为客户所急的时尚灵柩－
为死时不被视为普通平凡

或避免忽略最后体面离世
因此给海外父母阿姨表亲
送回不顺心不成功的印记

承办随从神情沉重地装置
每一个空灵柩到折叠拖车
然后步行护送着经过巷子

安置在展室后，心碎在那里
代价一万二，死如庞蒂亚克
所有环节细铬防锈精心处理

而一旦香烟掐灭在人行道上
藏红花长袍的和尚敲响铜锣
即由凯迪拉克引出队列送葬

车辆缓缓驶入车流渐渐消失，
这些新抵达的，一次伤心的离开
源自一个殡仪馆：名号为"永安"

（星子安娜翻译）[/img]

more: http://www.lovingsister.com/news_detail/index.php?news_id=29112

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Richard Greene is a poet and biographer. His third collection of poems Boxing the Compass (Montreal: Signal, 2009) won Canada's most prestigious prize, The Governor General's Literary Award. His fourth collection Dante's House (Montreal: Signal, 2013) has just been released. He is a professor at the University of Toronto and lives in Cobourg, Ontario.

理查德•格林是一个诗人和传记者。他的第三本诗集《搏击罗盘》（Montreal: Signal, 2009）荣获加拿大最负盛名的奖项总督文学奖。他的第四本诗集《但丁的房子》（Montreal: Signal，2013年）2013年10月出版。理查德是多伦多大学的教授，住在安大略省的Cobourg。



Beside the Funeral Home

Richard Greene

Twice a month, I watch special delivery
Of modish coffins for customers anxious
Not to be caught dead in the ordinary

Or to neglect the last public decencies
And thus send parent, aunt or cousin abroad
Again with no mark of comfort or success.

The undertaker’s under-men gravely load
Each empty coffin onto a folding cart
And then walk it from the alley to be stow

Behind a show-room where any broken heart
Costs twelve grand and death looks like a Pontiac,
Chrome -detailed and rust-proofed in every part.

But once cigarettes are stubbed on the sidewalk
And a monk in saffron robe has struck the gong
The cortege is led out by the Cadillac.

Cars reach slowly into traffic and are gone,
A sad departure for these new arrivals,
From a funeral home that calls itself “Wing On.”

殡仪馆旁

理查德•格林

每月两次我目睹特别运送
为客户所急的时尚灵柩－
为死时不被视为普通平凡

或避免忽略最后体面离世
因此给海外父母阿姨表亲
送回不顺心不成功的印记

承办随从神情沉重地装置
每一个空灵柩到折叠拖车
然后步行护送着经过巷子

安置在展室后，心碎在那里
代价一万二，死如庞蒂亚克
所有环节细铬防锈精心处理

而一旦香烟掐灭在人行道上
藏红花长袍的和尚敲响铜锣
即由凯迪拉克引出队列送葬

车辆缓缓驶入车流渐渐消失，
这些新抵达的，一次伤心的离开
源自一个殡仪馆：名号为"永安"

（星子安娜翻译）[/img]

more: http://www.lovingsister.com/news_detail/index.php?news_id=29112

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Kate Marshall has published four books of poetry. Her next book of poetry will be published by Guernica Editions in 2014. She is published in journals such as Descant, CV2, Freefall, and Vallum. She was short-listed for the Malahat Review Long Poem and Descant's Best Canadian Poem. She lives in Toronto with her husband and three children, where she guides yoga/retreats/writing workshops.

凯特-马歇尔已出版四本诗集。其诗发表在Descant, CV2, Freefall, and Vallum，入围Malahat Review的长诗诗歌赛和Descant 的加拿大最优秀的诗诗赛。她和丈夫及三个孩子住在多伦多，从事着瑜伽/静休/写作讲习。

Silver Bridge

You remember seeing the Danforth bridge—
strung with threads—
an angel harp with you inside it
like an astounded moth
in a spider's web,
or a bead in a dream catcher.

You travel inside this threaded instrument
on your way to violin lessons
like you might be Jonah
inspecting the whale's intercostals,
or Noah's offspring
revisiting the ribs of the arc.

You ponder the workmanship
of this half-mile of elaborate lines,
taut on the frets of the bridge,
and recall a Buddhist poem
about a musician who spent his life
stringing and un-stringing his lute,

But never played.

And you realize that this weave of silver filaments,
this enticing spun silk
glinting in the September sunlight

Is a trap, a cage, a publicly-funded skein

To prevent you
from leaping to your death.

银桥

你记得看见丹福思桥——
被银线牵引着——
一个天使将你用竖琴围住
像一只在蜘蛛网里
被震惊的飞蛾，
或一粒珠子在梦的捕获者手里。

你在这丝线密绕的乐器里穿行
去往你的小提琴课路上
好像你会如约拿
检查鲸鱼的肋骨间隙，
或挪亚的后代
重新掂量方舟的梁骨。

你凝思这半英里
精密丝线的工艺，
绷紧在桥梁的音柱上，
想起一首禅诗
关于一个音乐家度过了一生
串起琵琶的琴弦又一一解开，

却从来没有弹过。

你意识到这银色的锦绣编织，
这样诱人的绢丝
在九月阳光下闪闪发光

是一个陷阱，一只牢笼，一袭由公家资助的绞纱

为了防止你
跃向死亡。

Translated by Anna Yin

http://poetrysky.com/quarterly/35/marshall.html

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Kate Marshall has published four books of poetry. Her next book of poetry will be published by Guernica Editions in 2014. She is published in journals such as Descant, CV2, Freefall, and Vallum. She was short-listed for the Malahat Review Long Poem and Descant's Best Canadian Poem. She lives in Toronto with her husband and three children, where she guides yoga/retreats/writing workshops.

凯特-马歇尔已出版四本诗集。其诗发表在Descant, CV2, Freefall, and Vallum，入围Malahat Review的长诗诗歌赛和Descant 的加拿大最优秀的诗诗赛。她和丈夫及三个孩子住在多伦多，从事着瑜伽/静休/写作讲习。

Silver Bridge

You remember seeing the Danforth bridge—
strung with threads—
an angel harp with you inside it
like an astounded moth
in a spider's web,
or a bead in a dream catcher.

You travel inside this threaded instrument
on your way to violin lessons
like you might be Jonah
inspecting the whale's intercostals,
or Noah's offspring
revisiting the ribs of the arc.

You ponder the workmanship
of this half-mile of elaborate lines,
taut on the frets of the bridge,
and recall a Buddhist poem
about a musician who spent his life
stringing and un-stringing his lute,

But never played.

And you realize that this weave of silver filaments,
this enticing spun silk
glinting in the September sunlight

Is a trap, a cage, a publicly-funded skein

To prevent you
from leaping to your death.

银桥

你记得看见丹福思桥——
被银线牵引着——
一个天使将你用竖琴围住
像一只在蜘蛛网里
被震惊的飞蛾，
或一粒珠子在梦的捕获者手里。

你在这丝线密绕的乐器里穿行
去往你的小提琴课路上
好像你会如约拿
检查鲸鱼的肋骨间隙，
或挪亚的后代
重新掂量方舟的梁骨。

你凝思这半英里
精密丝线的工艺，
绷紧在桥梁的音柱上，
想起一首禅诗
关于一个音乐家度过了一生
串起琵琶的琴弦又一一解开，

却从来没有弹过。

你意识到这银色的锦绣编织，
这样诱人的绢丝
在九月阳光下闪闪发光

是一个陷阱，一只牢笼，一袭由公家资助的绞纱

为了防止你
跃向死亡。

Translated by Anna Yin

http://poetrysky.com/quarterly/35/marshall.html

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Bruce Meyer is author of thirty four books , including Mesopotamia (2009), Dog Days: A Comedy of Terriers (2009), Alphabet Table (2010), Alphabestiary: A Poetry Emblem Book (with H. Masud Taj, 2011), A Book of Bread (2011), and The Obsession Book of Timbuktu (2013). He is also author of the national bestseller, The Golden Thread: A Reader's Journey Through the Great Books (2000). His broadcasts are the CBC's bestselling spoken word audio series. He is professor of English at Georgian College in Barrie and teaches for Laurentian University, Victoria College in the University of Toronto, and St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto. He is the inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of Barrie.

梅尔是加拿大诗人和评论家，也是Barrie城市的桂冠诗人。他著有34本书籍。他也是全国畅销书的作者。他的广播作品 "伟大的书籍", "新思维" 和 "生活是诗"等成为加拿大国家电台的畅销口语有声读物系列。他是乔治安学院的教授，在多伦多大学以及其他学院教学。

Vanishing Cream
In memory of Amy Winehouse


At Wevill's house one desert night
as I lay reading at the window screen,
a moth flew into my lit candle
and fell burning like a torch song.

By the time I snuffed the flame.
wondering if any art was worth
a life—even a dumb insect's—
only the wings' eyes remained.

I watched other moths, less talented,
dance and beat themselves helpless
against the metal mesh, their flutters
the sound of an old film projector

running silent movies, unaccompanied,
the movements of faces overplayed,
each pancaked to reflect a light
shine through them to the future.

My grandmother would remove her face
each night before she went to sleep
with a cream that made her ghostly,
letting the day vanish as if a miracle—

the same way I thought nature sang
when I woke at dawn to uneasy steps,
my face still pressed against the screen
and a doe's eyes staring back at me.

雪花膏
回忆Amy Winehouse

在Wevill家一个寂寞之夜
当我置身窗屏旁阅读，
一只飞蛾飞进我点着的蜡烛
跌落燃烧犹如一把火炬之歌。

等到我掐灭火焰，
寻思着是否有任何艺术值得
付出生命，—哪怕是一只暗哑的虫子—
它现在只余下翅膀上的眼睛。

我看到其他的飞蛾，天分要低些，
飞舞和无助地拍打着翅膀，
撞击着金属网，它们的扑棱声
好似旧式的影片放映机

运转着无声影片，没有伴奏地，
它们面部的动作被夸大，
每一个脂粉饰抹着反射光
通透着它们直到以后。

每天晚上在睡觉之前，
我的祖母会用雪花膏卸
妆，雪花膏让她象鬼一样，
而一天就这样奇迹般消失—

同样奇妙地，清晨我在不安的步声中
醒来，我以为大自然在歌唱，
那时我的脸依然紧压着窗屏，
而一只母鹿正瞪视着我。


http://poetrysky.com/quarterly/34/meyer.html

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Bruce Meyer is author of thirty four books , including Mesopotamia (2009), Dog Days: A Comedy of Terriers (2009), Alphabet Table (2010), Alphabestiary: A Poetry Emblem Book (with H. Masud Taj, 2011), A Book of Bread (2011), and The Obsession Book of Timbuktu (2013). He is also author of the national bestseller, The Golden Thread: A Reader's Journey Through the Great Books (2000). His broadcasts are the CBC's bestselling spoken word audio series. He is professor of English at Georgian College in Barrie and teaches for Laurentian University, Victoria College in the University of Toronto, and St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto. He is the inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of Barrie.

梅尔是加拿大诗人和评论家，也是Barrie城市的桂冠诗人。他著有34本书籍。他也是全国畅销书的作者。他的广播作品 "伟大的书籍", "新思维" 和 "生活是诗"等成为加拿大国家电台的畅销口语有声读物系列。他是乔治安学院的教授，在多伦多大学以及其他学院教学。

Vanishing Cream
In memory of Amy Winehouse


At Wevill's house one desert night
as I lay reading at the window screen,
a moth flew into my lit candle
and fell burning like a torch song.

By the time I snuffed the flame.
wondering if any art was worth
a life—even a dumb insect's—
only the wings' eyes remained.

I watched other moths, less talented,
dance and beat themselves helpless
against the metal mesh, their flutters
the sound of an old film projector

running silent movies, unaccompanied,
the movements of faces overplayed,
each pancaked to reflect a light
shine through them to the future.

My grandmother would remove her face
each night before she went to sleep
with a cream that made her ghostly,
letting the day vanish as if a miracle—

the same way I thought nature sang
when I woke at dawn to uneasy steps,
my face still pressed against the screen
and a doe's eyes staring back at me.

雪花膏
回忆Amy Winehouse

在Wevill家一个寂寞之夜
当我置身窗屏旁阅读，
一只飞蛾飞进我点着的蜡烛
跌落燃烧犹如一把火炬之歌。

等到我掐灭火焰，
寻思着是否有任何艺术值得
付出生命，—哪怕是一只暗哑的虫子—
它现在只余下翅膀上的眼睛。

我看到其他的飞蛾，天分要低些，
飞舞和无助地拍打着翅膀，
撞击着金属网，它们的扑棱声
好似旧式的影片放映机

运转着无声影片，没有伴奏地，
它们面部的动作被夸大，
每一个脂粉饰抹着反射光
通透着它们直到以后。

每天晚上在睡觉之前，
我的祖母会用雪花膏卸
妆，雪花膏让她象鬼一样，
而一天就这样奇迹般消失—

同样奇妙地，清晨我在不安的步声中
醒来，我以为大自然在歌唱，
那时我的脸依然紧压着窗屏，
而一只母鹿正瞪视着我。


http://poetrysky.com/quarterly/34/meyer.html

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James Deahl's The Blue Oats Translated by Qiu Ye

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James Deahl's The Blue Oats Translated by Qiu Ye

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some discussions long time ago. now re-read it...

http://coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=18673&highlight=The+Blue+Oats
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some discussions long time ago. now re-read it...

http://coviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=18673&highlight=The+Blue+Oats
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Catherine Graham is the author of Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects (Wolsak and Wynn, 2013), Winterkill (Insomniac Press, 2010), The Red Element (Insomniac Press, 2008), Pupa (Insomniac Press, 2003) and The Watch (Abbey Press, 1998). Winner of the IFOA's Poetry NOW competition and an Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, her books have been shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award, CAA Poetry Award and nominated for the ReLit Award. Her poetry has appeared in literary journals in North America, the United Kingdom and Ireland and has been frequently anthologized.


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Catherine Graham is the author of Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects (Wolsak and Wynn, 2013), Winterkill (Insomniac Press, 2010), The Red Element (Insomniac Press, 2008), Pupa (Insomniac Press, 2003) and The Watch (Abbey Press, 1998). Winner of the IFOA's Poetry NOW competition and an Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, her books have been shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award, CAA Poetry Award and nominated for the ReLit Award. Her poetry has appeared in literary journals in North America, the United Kingdom and Ireland and has been frequently anthologized.


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nice to have read all of their works.

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nice to have read all of their works.