內容介紹
很喜歡這輯詩，有你生活其中的澳門，有旅途中的異國，你敏感的文字、細膩的觀察，偶然流露的幽默，有時帶點天真，有時有點無奈，卻是睜大眼睛觀看，常常從靜思中捕捉了出色的意象，成為令人印象深刻的詩句。---也斯（梁秉鈞）In his new collection, Chris Song Zijiang strolls from Guangdong to Bundanon and kindly invites us to join him. Song has a keen eye for the extraordinary in the ordinary -- from the philosopher wombat who knows the danger in Plato better than many who have read him, who, like Socrates “delved in the sky and / under the earth” and ended “hoping to // scratch the truth out of his body,” to a moment of waiting with a taxi driver on the way to the Chinatown of Sydney “for the next word / that won’t be said,” to an “odd nail / still wedged in the wall,” to reading Heraclitus on Hac Sa Beach, “the same as ever / but never the same twice.” This clear-eyed poet knows “legs / bring seeds / wherever they go... // so sojourns all / become grass huts.” This is a hut (like the one another stroller, Henry David Thoreau, built on Walden Pond) worth inhabiting for a while, oozing “a sense / out of no sense” with Mina Loy, full of promise. Strolling is a joy to read, and it will leave readers waiting for the next word, hoping that sharp something sticking in the poet’s throat at the end means another long walk soon, sowing silences as breathtaking as those in this collection. --- Steven Schroeder
作者介紹
宋子江，廣東人，現居澳門。曾在中國大陸，澳門，香港，澳大利亞，美國，菲律賓等地發表其詩歌和詩歌翻譯作品。作品目錄
cloud travel雲遊
I almost believed I was in the Old Summer Palace
我幾乎相信這就是圓明園
taking a taxi to China Town of Sydney
打的前往悉尼唐人街
finding a Canberra poet
尋訪一位坎培拉詩人
a philosopher on the paddock
牧場上的哲學家
through the vast dark
走過廣闊的黑暗
Laos
老撾
waiting at the border gate
關閘前的等待
garden
花園
an odd nail
古怪的釘子
strolling
散步
domestic economy
經濟
a young hosewife’s bachelor flat
少婦公寓
Macao and Taipa
澳門與氹仔
Hac Sa Beach
黑沙海灘
images and the imagined
意象與想像
sojourns
暫居之所
noodle nostalgia
吃麵
banished words
文字的流亡
before a hospital
醫院門前
jelly
啫哩
to birds
給鳥兒
classics
古詩
the cowherd in the mountain
山中的牛郎
scrapyard
廢車場
wintry green
冬綠
the process of reading a poem
讀一首詩的過程
writing history
書寫歷史
a gambler
一個賭徒
midnight musing
深夜禪思
a bureaucrat on the platform
講台上的官僚
puddings
布甸
pandas’ diplomacy
熊貓的外交
grass on the wall’s end
墻頭草
silenced
被沉默
