凯特莱特(Kate Light),美国当代女诗人,纽约城市歌剧院小提琴手,也投身于现代舞和戏剧。1997年以诗集《堕落身体的律法》获得尼古拉斯诺依里奇诗歌奖。 现代人的爱情是短暂而危险的,仿佛是一场场拳击赛,来得突然,去得也快。虽然曾经有过短暂的幸福之光进入黯淡的地方,他们也可以为爱痴狂,然而却否认燃烧。末尾一句,更是撕破了披在现代人头上的温情脉脉的面纱:他们就连说一声爱都困难。莱特写的现代诗,体现在从内容和形式两个层面上的继承与突破。然而,这种琉璜与大气的会合似的爱情,最终受到威胁的还是内心和灵魂。也许这个写诗的靓丽女子,会在音乐、舞蹈和戏剧上寻求舒乐与安宁,会让心浮气燥的都市生活变得宁静,并在宁静中收获真正属于自己的爱情。 If he sees her, love will flare briefly; a struck match, held in his fingers, that he will let burn till the threshold of flesh is threatened. It will burn, and he will stare-- the meeting of the sulphur and the air-- and the dark will be dispelled briefly. Briefly he will forget his anger, briefly light be led into his darksomewhere soul or self or heart or cleft or bare |