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《守夜人》從余光中十三本詩集及尚未集結成冊的詩作中,精選八十五組詩作,約占作者詩作總量十四分之一,極具份量。從一九九二年的初版,至今已二十四年,每十二年改版一次,此次三版特別新增〈江湖上〉、〈踢踢踏〉、〈蒼茫時刻〉、〈永念蕭邦〉、〈翠玉白菜〉、〈冰姑,雪姨〉、〈鱈岬上空的卷雲〉、〈牙關〉、〈虹〉、〈水草拔河〉、〈大哉母愛〉、〈客從蒙古來〉、〈送樓克禮自丹佛西行〉、〈半途〉十四首詩作,為求中英詩意更臻佳境,部分中文詩也略作修改。 書中收錄余光中多闋代表作,如〈白玉苦瓜〉、〈鄉愁〉、〈如果遠方有戰爭〉、〈與永恆拔河〉等,尚有具傳奇色彩的〈山中傳奇〉、〈黃昏〉,詠歎藝術家的〈永念蕭邦〉、〈戲李白〉、〈向日葵〉等,自況心境的〈七十自喻〉、〈江湖上〉、〈問燭〉等,動植物與玩賞物件的奇思異想〈聽瓶記〉、〈水草拔河〉、〈雨傘〉等,將名山佳景、歷史遺跡化為史詩巨著的〈西螺大橋〉、〈荷蘭吊橋〉、〈蓋提斯堡戰爭〉等,以及尚未集結成冊的詩作〈送樓克禮自丹佛西行〉、〈半途〉。 中詩英譯須考慮譯詩諸多複雜條件,保留原詩精神之餘,也須讓英詩具有獨特生命,余光中說:作者自譯「好處是完全了解原文,絕不可能『誤解』,苦處也就在這裡,因為自知最深」,衡量譯詩諸多複雜條件,割愛篩選後的詩作,既保留了原詩精神,也創造英詩的獨特生命,使得中英對照讀來更富逸趣,妙不可言。 本書特色 ★全書中英對照、全新編排,並添新作。
余光中 一生從事詩、散文、評論、翻譯,自稱為寫作的四度空間,詩風與文風的多變、多產、多樣,盱衡同輩晚輩,幾乎少有匹敵者。從舊世紀到新世紀,對現代文學影響既深且遠,遍及兩岸三地的華人世界。曾在美國教書四年,並在臺、港各大學擔任外文系或中文系教授暨文學院院長,曾獲香港中文大學、臺灣政治大學及中山大學之榮譽博士。先後榮獲「南京十大文化名人之首」、全球華文文學星雲獎之貢獻獎、第三十四屆行政院文化獎、第十三屆花蹤世界華文文學獎等。現為國立中山大學榮休教授。 著有詩集《白玉苦瓜》、《藕神》、《太陽點名》等;散文集《逍遙遊》、《聽聽那冷雨》、《青銅一夢》、《粉絲與知音》等;評論集《藍墨水的下游》、《舉杯向天笑》等;翻譯《理想丈夫》、《溫夫人的扇子》、《不要緊的女人》、《老人和大海》、《梵谷傳》、《濟慈名著譯述》等,主編《中國現代文學大系》(一)、(二)、《秋之頌》等,合計七十種以上。
TABLE OF CONTENT
About the Author Foreword 《守夜人》自序 Foreword to the Second Edition 二版自序 Foreword to the New Edition 三版自序 Stalactites 鐘乳石 Hsilo Bridge 西螺大橋(1958) Music Percussive 敲打樂 Seven Layers Beneath 七層下(1965) Smoke Hole Cavern 鐘乳巖(1965) When I Am Dead 當我死時(1966) Gray Pigeons 灰鴿子(1966) The Single Bed 單人床(1966) The Black Angel 黑天使(1966) There Was a Dead Bird 有一隻死鳥(1966) Music Percussive 敲打樂(1966) In Time of Cold War 在冷戰的年代 To the Reader 致讀者(1966) All That Have Wings 凡有翅的(1966) The Double Bed 雙人床(1966) The Field Gun 野 砲(1966) A Cat with Nine Lives 九命貓(1967) Self-Sculpture 自 塑(1967) Green Bristlegrass 狗尾草(1967) If There’s a War Raging Afar如果遠方有戰爭(1967) The White Curse 白 災(1967) Sense of Security 安全感(1967) Often I Find 時常,我發現(1968) Chimney Smoke 炊 煙(1968) A Coin 一枚銅幣(1968) The Death of a Swordsman 一武士之死(1968) The Death of an Old Poet 老詩人之死(1969) I Dreamed of a King 我夢見一個王(1969) The White Jade Bitter Gourd 白玉苦瓜 On the Road 江湖上(1970) A Folk Song 民 歌(1971) The Begonia Tattoo 海棠紋身(1971) Passing Fangliao 車過枋寮(1972) Building Blocks 積 木(1972) Nostalgia 鄉 愁(1972) The Telephone Booth 電話亭(1972) The Call 呼 喚(1972) The Night Watchman 守夜人(1973) Beethoven 貝多芬(1974) The White Jade Bitter Gourd 白玉苦瓜(1974) Tug of War with Eternity 與永恆拔河 The Kite 放風箏(1974) The Pole-Vaulter 撐竿跳選手(1976) The Power Failure 大停電(1977) When Night Falls 蒼茫來時(1977) Listening to a Bottle 聽瓶記(1977) Tug of War with Eternity 與永恆拔河(1978) The Crystal Prison 水晶牢(1978) Kannon Bodhisattva across the Sea 隔水觀音 A Tale on the Hi11 山中傳奇(1979) Teasing Li Po 戲李白(1980) Mosquito Net 紗 帳(1980) Autumn Equinox 秋 分(1980) The Umbrellas 雨 傘(1981) To Painter Shiy De Jinn 寄給畫家(1981) The Bauhinia 紫荊賦 Evening 黃 昏(1982) Summer Thoughts of a Mountaineer 山中暑意七品(1982) Tick Tick Tock 踢踢踏(1982) The Spider Webs 蛛 網(1984) Dream and Geography 夢與地理 Once upon a Candle 問 燭(1985) The Pearl Necklace 珍珠項鍊(1986) The Swimmer 泳 者(1986) What Is the Rain Saying Through the Night? 雨聲說些什麼(1986) Scenes of Kengting National Park 墾丁十一首(1986) Dream and Bladder 夢與膀胱(1987) The Gecko 壁 虎(1987) The Sunflowers 向日葵(1988) The Pomegranates 安石榴 The Diver 跳水者(1988) Mother, I’m Hungry 媽媽,我餓了(1989) In Praise of Hong Kong 讚香港(1989) The Langlois Bridge 荷蘭吊橋(1990) By the Darkening Window 在漸暗的窗口(1990) By All Five Elements 五行無阻 Holding My Grandson 抱 孫(1993) On Such a Windy Night 在多風的夜晚(1994) No Lullaby 非安眠曲(1994) A Hight Window Overlooking the Sea 高樓對海 All Throughout This My Life: To Mother 母難日:今生今世(1995) Happy Was the World: To Mother 母難日:矛盾世界(1995) The Flying Sunflower─To Comet Hale-Bopp 飛行的向日葵(1997) On My Seventieth Birthday 七十自喻(1998) At the Twilight Hour 蒼茫時刻(1998) The God of Lotus Root 藕神 In Memory of Chopin 永念蕭邦(1999) The Emerald White Cabbage 翠玉白菜(2004) Aunt Ice, Aunt Snow 冰姑,雪姨(2007) Cirrus over Cape Cod 鱈岬上空的卷雲(2008) At the Dentist's 牙關(2008) Arco Iris 虹(2008) Tug of War with the River 水草拔河(2008) Great Is a Mother’s Love-To a Victim Orphaned by the Recent Earthquake in Sichwan 大哉母愛—給大難不死的孤兒(2008) The Sun Calling His Children 太陽點名 A Visitor from Mongolia 客從蒙古來(2011) Uncollected Poems 尚未結集 To Chris on His Going West from Denver 送樓克禮自丹佛西行(1971) Midway 半途(2014) NOTES
PREFACE/READING GUIDANCE
三版自序 Foreword to the Third Edition The Night Watchman was first published in 1992 and then reprinted in 2004. Now another 12 years have passed and this new third edition seems due. Of course this new edition has its changes, with both additions and deletions of about a dozen. The result is still more than 80 poems in this edition, approximately one twelfth of my total output in verse. Yet there is flexibility in counting the poems, because “Summer Thoughts of a Mountaineer” is a series of 7 poems and “Scenes of Kenting National Park” a series of 11. Another 12 years will find me a centenarian, but I don’t care for being a longevity rarity. So this third edition should remain not only the most recent but also the last edition of The Night Watchman. Yu Kwang-chung 2016 《守夜人》初版於一九九二年,再版於二○○四年,如今又過了十二年;這最新的第三版頗多增刪,增的和刪的各為一打左右。其結果仍是八十多首,約占迄今為止我的總產量十二分之一。不過「首」的認定頗有伸縮,因為這第三版裏收入兩首組詩,例如〈山中暑意七品〉與〈墾丁十一首〉。 再過十二年我就一百歲了,但我對做「人瑞」並不熱衷。所以這第三版該是最新的也是最後的《守夜人》了。 二○一六年
CONTENT PREVIEW OF THE BOOK
Hsilo Bridge Loomingly, the soul of steel remains awake. Serious silence clangs. Over the Hsilo Plain sea winds wildy shake This design of strength, this scheme of beauty; they shake Every nerve of this tower of will, Howling and yelling desperately. Still the teeth of nails bite, the claws of iron rails clench A serious silence. Then my soul awakes; I know I shall be different once across From what on this side I am; I know The man across can never come back To the man before the crossing. Yet Fate from a mysterious center radiates A thousand arms to greet me; I must cross the bridge. Facing the corridor to another world, I tremble a little. But the raw wind over the Hsilo Plain Blows against me with the tidings That on the other side is the sea. I tremble a little, but I Must cross the bridge. And tall looms the massive silence, And awake is the soul of steel 西螺大橋 矗然,鋼的靈魂醒著 嚴肅的靜鏗鏘著 西螺平原的海風猛撼著這座 力的圖案,美的網,猛撼著這座 意志之塔的每一根神經 猛撼著,而且絕望地嘯著 而鐵釘的齒緊緊咬著,鐵臂的手緊緊握著 嚴肅的靜 於是,我的靈魂也醒了,我知道 既渡的我將異於 未渡的我,我知道 彼岸的我不能復原為 此岸的我 但命運自神祕的一點伸過來 一千條歡迎的臂,我必須渡河 面臨通向另一個世界的 走廊,我微微地顫抖 但西螺平原的壯闊的風 迎面撲來,告我以海在彼端 我微微地顫抖,但是我 必須渡河 矗立著,龐大的沉沒 醒著,鋼的靈魂 Seven Layers Beneath The wind now ebbs among the pines. The sun sets West of the Civil War. Only snow garrisons the frontier. Thin are the bald branches, like starved nerves of the ear. In the chilled hush the shrubs are listening. At sunset, the ill-tempered crow in the birch trees Begins to curse, in dissonant blasphemies, General Sedgwick with the broken sword. Startled and strained are the statued ears. Featured are the rocks; masks hide behind masks. Soon the cold fog will rise, and under the biotite sky The dews will nibble the marrow of the guns In the rusted silence where mildew creeps. After the war asleep are the stains of blood. Mute are the bugles, mute the neighing horses that shied. After the war the vastness of a battlefield Is listening to a lone, late crow. Then Sirius rises from between teeth of battlements. The weighty sense of Time cumulated falls On my fatigued collar bone. Also falls The night, slippery down my icy face. Softly I tread. Softly, on seven layers of autumn dead, Seven layers of leaves, crisp and sobbing beneath the shoes, Till trod and broken lie all the heart-shaped designs, All the insistences and futilities. WISDOM SURVIVES PASSION. Ah, exile roaming thebattlefield, There is no past for you, no, not a bit. New Continent is still too new, past there's none for you. Your past is west of the sunset, west of it. ─Devil's Den, Gettysburg 七層下 一時松風退濤,落日在內戰以西 殘雪兀自封鎖著邊界 禿柯瘦成聽覺的神經 肅然的寒氣中,灌木叢在傾聽 日落時,壞脾氣的烏鴉 在那邊的樺樹林中咒罵 罵米德將軍斷劍的雕像 百里內,驚動多少耳朵 怪石如顏,鬼面之後有鬼面 不久冷霧泛起,夜空下 露滴侵食鐵砲的骨髓 鏽青了的寂滅中,爬著綠霉 內戰之後,血斑皆酣然 酣然,銅號,酣然,失蹄的嘶馬 內戰之後,一整幅戰場 在靜聽一隻遲歸的鴉 天狼在雉堞的齒隙升起 累積的時間感,全部的重量 向肩胛骨最痠處壓下 夜色瀉下,沿著誰的冰頰 踏。 踏七層死去的秋 七層枯脆在履底悲泣 踏碎一些心形的圖案 一些多情的執著,一些徒然 太上無情。 古戰場的浪子啊 你沒有什麼往事,沒有一星星 新大陸太新,沒有你的往事 往事在落日以西,唉,以西 ──蓋提斯堡戰場魔鬼穴