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ix A Note on Translating Yu Jian by Ron Padgett
xii Firm, Steadfast, Staunch, Resolute: Yu Jian’s Flash Cards by Simon Patton
2 / I arrive at his living room with a poem 空著手　帶著詩
4 / In the beginning is the rabbit 開頭是一隻兔子
6 / I see a rose 我看見一朵玫瑰
8 / When I work 乾活的時候
10 / The property where the palm tree lives 棕櫚樹住的土地被賣掉瞭
12 / With a shaved head 剃光頭的人
14 / A tree 一棵樹
16 / Morning time to brush my teeth 早上　刷牙的時候
18 / If I compare spring to a temple 把春天比喻成神廟
20 / A letter 一封信
22 / The road that goes there 通嚮那裏的道路不需要經過
24 / You’re about to become 你將要　完成
26 / I write in autumn 我在鞦天寫作
28 / The washing machine on Saturday 洗衣機的星期六
30 / The poet is hosting a meeting 女詩人主持會議
32 / It’s used for holding carp 用它盛鯉魚
34 / In the Nu River forest 在怒江州的叢林中
36 / The lone white eucalyptus 在白色的公寓附近
38 / Originally this poem was written 這首詩曾經存在
40 / The salesman who sells 在超級市場賣音響器材的營業員
42 / Autumn is coming 啊　鞦天來瞭
44 / Outside my window 在我的窗子外麵
46 / A member of the proletariat 無産者在星期日的大街上走
48 / Finishing Poem #54 寫到 5450 / The alarm clock doesn’t ring 鬧鍾不報告另一類的時間
52 / Someone discovered Xi Shuang Ban Na 有人發現瞭西雙版納
54 / According to both theory and practice 國傢公路　依據某些經驗和原則
56 / Autumn is deep 鞦天深瞭
58 / If you want to make every word 要把每一句話都說得深刻
60 / It’s possible for ninety poets to think 九十個詩人會在同一時刻
62 / The supermarket’s concrete foundation 超級市場的水泥地基打入地層十米以下
64 / Oh this is the merry-go-round 這就是鏇轉木馬
66 / In the zoo where dark is falling 黑暗將至的動物園
68 / Night along the Nu River is strange 怒江州的黑夜是陌生的
70 / In the middle of the horse going 在鏇轉木馬的核心
72 / The poet walks on the road 詩人走在敘事詩的路上
74 / The architect for the madhouse 瘋人院的設計師
78 / Certain things are placed 有些東西被擱在黑暗的最高一層
80 / There’s a pleasure 有一種快感我從未體驗
82 / Under the moon 明月降臨
84 / Red lights 紅色光芒
86 / Another autumn 又是鞦天
88 / The road to death 死亡的道路
90 / A black leopard 黑豹子
92 / Ancient lungs screech 古代的肺在工業的天空尖叫
94 / (Poetry Recipe) (詩歌秘方）
96 / A wolf passes through the valley 狼經過山榖
98 / A cold front is attacking the city 寒流襲擊城市
100 / Along the River Dimaluo 迪麻洛河
102 / The afternoon sun 陽光在下午
104 / An eighteen-year-old college girl 十八歲的大學女生106 / On the garden’s eyelashes 蝴蝶在花園的睫毛上
108 / The car zooms across the high plateau 汽車在高原上飛馳
110 / In 1998 公元 1998 年
112 / You’re too vulgar 玉花對他說
114 / I always try to reach 我總是想抵達皮帶的第七個扣
116 / You must confess honestly 你要老實交代
118 / He’s walking others are walking too 他在走　他的周圍也有人在走
120 / Inscrutable thoughts 深不可測的思想
122 / Peeling an apple at dusk 削蘋果的女人
124 / In springtime girls run 姑娘們跑進春天浴室
126 / On the stage 主席颱上
128 / The golden age is coming soon 黃金時代就要到瞭
130 / The eggshell breaks in the afternoon 下午的蛋殼碎瞭
132 / A clean sanitized square 乾淨衛生的廣場
134 / Afternoon in a remote mountain 偏遠山區的下午
136 / The injury didn’t come from 傷害　不是來自時代
140 / The well at the old house 故鄉的井已經乾掉
142 / Poet Chen Ping is a policeman 詩人陳平的職業是警察
144 / The red land rolls on beneath the sky 紅色的大地在蒼天下翻滾
146 / The driver p0inted to a village 司機指著山下一個村莊
148 / That day I passed by 有一天我路過建築工地
150 / Morning in the park 公園的早晨
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