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Notes on the Mosquitoby Xi Chuantranslated by Lucas KleinCopyright @ 2012 by New Directions

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蚊子志

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蚊子志

西 川

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A New Directions Book

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Copyright © 1991, 1997, 2006, 2008 by Xi ChuanTranslation copyright © 2012 by Lucas KleinCompilation copyright © 2012 by New Directions Publishing

All rights reserved. Except for brief passages quoted in a newspaper, magazine, radio, television, or website review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any in-formation storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher.

Earlier versions of some of these translations appeared in the literary journals Alligatorzine, Almost Island, Asymptote, Cerise Press, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Chinese Literature Today, Eleven Eleven, A Gathering of Tribes, Path Light: New Chinese Writing, PEN Online Translation Slam, Plume, Poems & Poetics, Poetry East West, Terracotta Typewriter, Two Lines: Some Kind of Beautiful Signal, and Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics; in the Copper Canyon anthology Push Open the Window: Contemporary Poetry from China; in the Tinfish Press chapbook Yours Truly & Other Poems; and in the booklet A Song of the Corner and anthology Words & the World published by Chinese University Press in conjunction with the International Poetry Nights Hong Kong 2011. Thanks to the editors involved in all of these publications.

Manufactured in the United States of AmericaNew Directions Books are printed on acid-free paper First published as a New Directions Paperbook (NDP1220) in 2012Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Limited

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Xi, Chuan, 1963- [Poems. English Selections] Notes on the mosquito : selected poems / Xi Chuan ; translated by Lucas Klein. —1st American paperback ed. p. cm. “Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Limited”— T.p. verso. “Compilation from various Chinese editions”—Publisher’s note. Includes index. ISBN 978-0-8112-1987-7 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Xi, Chuan, 1963—Translations into English. I. Klein, Lucas. II. Title. PL2862.I1215A2 2012 895.1’152—dc23 2011048684

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Translator’s Introduction ix

part one1985–1987体验 Experience 5在河的那一边 The Other Side of the River 7我居住的城市 The City I Live In 9起风 The Rise of Wind 11山中 In the Mountains 13柏树 The Cypresses 15佚事 The Discards 17把羊群赶下大海 Send Your Flock to the Sea 19

1990–1998秋天 Autumn 21一个人老了 A Man Ages 23夕光中的蝙蝠 Bats in the Sunset 27暮色 Twilight 31黄昏三章 Three Chapters on Dusk 33夜鸟 Night Birds 37回声 Echo 39停电 Power Outage 41月亮 The Moon 43写在三十岁 Written at Thirty 47观芮城永乐宫壁画 Looking at the Mural in the Ruicheng Temple of Eternal Joy 51此刻 This Minute 55午夜的钢琴曲 Midnight Sonata 59远方 The Distance 61回答启明星 (45断章) Answering Venus (45 Fragments) 63发现 Discoveries 75医院 The Hospital 77重读博尔赫斯诗歌 Rereading Borges’s Poetry 79鼠与猫 Cat & Mouse 81戒律 Commandments 83

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2000–2010无关紧要之歌 A Song of No Matter 87某人 Somebody 89平原 Plains 93邻居 The Neighbors 97蚊子志 Notes on the Mosquito 101思想练习 Exercises in Thought 105反常 Unusual 109我藏着我的尾巴 I Bury My Tail 111小老儿 Yours Truly 115南疆笔记 South Xinjiang Notes 125皮肤颂 Ode to Skin 139蚂蚁劫 The Ant’s Plunder 143连阴雨 Drizzle 145墙角之歌 A Song of the Corner 149

part two1992–1998选自《致敬》 from salute 致敬 Salute 153巨兽 Beast 155箴言 Exhortations 159选自《近景和远景》 from foreground & background 鸟 Bird 163毒药 Poison 165城市 City 167选自《芳名》 from the name of the fragrance 早晨 Daybreak 169选自《厄运》 from ill fortunes 厄运 C 00024 Ill Fortune C 00024 173厄运 H 00325 Ill Fortune H 00325 175厄运 O 09734 Ill Fortune O 09734 177厄运 U 20000 Ill Fortune U 20000 179选自《鹰的话语》 from eagle’s words 关于黑暗房间里的 On False Causality and True Chance 假因果真偶然 in a Dark Room 181关于我的无意义的生活 On My Meaningless Life 185

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2000–2010选自《景色》 from the scenery 个人的天堂 A Personal Paradise 189选自《镜花水月》 from flower in the mirror, moon in the water熟人 Acquaintances 193棋王 King of Chess 195伴侣 Companion 197《 现实感 》 senses of reality 1. 我奶奶 My Grandmother 1992. 奶奶 Grandmother 1993. 高人 The Tall Man 2014. 佩玲 Jade Chime 2015. 西峡小镇 The Little Village in West Gorge 2036. 天一黑 Once It Gets Dark 2037. 夜行 Night March 2038. 打铁 Striking the Iron 2059. 怎么一回事 What’s That All About? 20510. 老界岭 Old Barrier Peak 20511. 野猪 Wild Boar 20712. 黄毛 Manes of Yellow 20713. 喜悦 Delight 20914. 桌子板凳 Bench and Table 20915. 上推不出三代呵 Back No More than Three Generations 20916. 月出东山 The Moon Over the Eastern Mountain 211选自《鉴史三十章》 from thirty historical reflections 一个写字的人 That Person Writing 213《沙海古卷》录佉卢 Fragments from the Kharos.t.hı- Sand-Sea 文书残句。约晋代 Scrolls, c. Jin Dynasty (265–420 ce) 215六朝鬼魅 Six Dynasties Ghosts 217唐朝所没有的 What the Tang Did Not Have 219有关《大秦景教流行 On “The Introduction of the Luminous 中国碑颂》 Religion of Daqin into China” Stele 223南诏国梵文砖 A Sanskrit Brick from the Nanzhao Kingdom 225

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题王希孟青绿山水长卷 On Wang Ximeng’s Blue-green Landscape 《千里江山图》 Scroll, A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains 227猎鹰、天鹅与珍珠 Falcons, Swans, and Pearls 229拙赤.哈撒尔王封地 King Jöchi Khasar’s Land 231龙 Dragon 233体相与历史 The Body and History 237

Author’s Afterword: The Tradition This Instant 239Index 254