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"It is fitting that Travelling With A Bitter Melon, the most comprehensive collection of Leung Ping-kwan's poetry, should come at a tim e when Hong Kong is experiencing an upsurge of interest in home-grown writing. Fitting, because this bilingual volume will serve to remind those striving to forge Hong Kong's English-language voice that the city's most gifted poet has been writing and publishing in Chinese for more than a quarter of a century, and has built up an invaluable body of work over that time. This book is a must for anyone who takes Hong Kong writing seriously.
"The complicated subject of Hong Kong identity dominates. Leung focuses deliberately on the ordinary: a teacup, a tree, a deserted tram depot, a bitter melon. They are our shared images and they are treated tenderly.
"A thread of disciplined intelligence runs through Leung's work, lending these mundane images a singular power. The first poem in the volume, 'Tea,' reveals the poet's trademark preoccupation with food as a metaphor. In this poem, 'Jasmine petals gather/or disperse in patterns', a reminder of dear friends: 'Kept apart by so many trivialities/we have no moment of silence/to sit and sip together'.
"The lines are redolent of classical Chinese poetry, a key interest ?Leung is professor of Chinese at Lingnan University in Tuen Mun.
"Leung's language is crisp, searching and unsentimental without simplifying his subject matter. In 'Fragments Of A Northern Song Dynasty Fish-shaped Pot,' the poet wonders from where in China it came, and concludes: 'The fragments say: Please carefully study our grain/Don't read us into/Your history.' Hong Kong is on the periphery, offering alternative solutions to what it means to be Chinese in the modern world.
"Later, in 'Images Of Hong Kong,' the narrator searches for a postcard to send a friend. Yet he finds mostly 'Exotica for a faraway audience...Entangled with what others have said/Why is it so hard to tell our own stories?'
"The poems offer a chronological journey froth the relative stability of the 1970s through the growing insecurities of the 1980s as the Joint Declaration on Hong Kong's future was signed.
"This collection also shows Leung's proclivity for food as a metaphor of cultural identity, something pointed out in Rey Chow's excellent introductory essay.
"In 'Mussels In Brussels,' the poet muses: 'All say mussels have no identity problems/Perhaps...after all, here in Brussels/we still eat Canadian mussels'. Yet the poem's final conclusion argues for a sense of origin: 'Chinese mussels strayed from home/thousands of miles away, still taste of/the ponds and lakes that bred them.'
"There is a cinematic quality to much of Leung's work, which one of his translators, Gordon Osing, has attributed to the elisions in the lines. This isn't a coincidence ?Leung is interested in film, and film is the art form that has done the most to articulate the modern Hong Kong sensibility and win it an international audience. The films of John Woo or Wong Kar-wai are examples of this.
"If poetry is an overlooked art these days, then Hong Kong poetry falls into a doubly ignored category, being poetry from a city in which few people are interested in the written word.
"Yet readers will find a vividness and veracity of historical, cultural and emotional detail which, rooted in the Hong Kong experience, should put to rest any doubts about the city's place as a literary hub."
Didi Kirsten Tatlow
South China Morning Post
作者简介
目录信息
Foreword:An Ethics of Consumption / by Rey Chow 9
Introduction / by Martha P.Y. Cheung 19
蟬鳴 CICADA CHIRPS
茶 Tea 38
半途 Halfway 40
雷聲與蟬鳴 Thunder and the Chirping of Cicadas 44
剝海膽 Opening Sea Urchins 48
浮藻 Seaweed 52
冬日船艙 Boat Cabin in Winter 58
盆栽 Potted Plants 62
萬葉植物園遇雪 Snow in the Myriad Leaves Botanical Garden 70
初春二題 Early Spring I & II 72
舊城 OLD CITIES
拆建中的摩囉街 Demolition on Cat Street 80
寒夜,電車廠 Freezing Night,Tram Depot 84
笆掌圍斜巷 The Steep Alley at A. Agostinho 88
避雨南灣小咖啡店 Sheltering from Rain in a Coffee Shop in Praia Grande 90
大三笆牌坊 St. Paul's Ruins 94
關閘 Barrier Gate 98
舊城 Dreary City 102
鐘乳岩 Stalactites 104
湖 The Lake 108
故宮 Imperial Palace 112
西洋畫素描班 Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing 114
北京早晨 Morning, Beijing 116
游詩 JOURNEYS
待魚 Waiting for Fish 120
一個尋常的雨天 An Ordinary Rainy Day 128
除夕 New Year's Eve 132
聽John Cage 音樂會回來的路上 After John Cage 138
太陽昇起的頌詩 Ode to the Sun Rising 146
用左手的女人 The Left-handed Woman 150
修理屋背的頌詩 Ode to Roof Repair 154
在紐約街頭看落葉 Watching Falling leaves on a New York Street 160
蓮葉 LOTUS LEAVES
連葉 Leaf Contact 166
冕葉 Leaf Crown 170
戀葉 Leaf Enchantment 174
憐葉 Leaf Pity 178
漣葉 Leaf Ripples 180
牆後 BEYOND THE WALLS
靜物 Still-life 184
大地上的居所 A Shelter on Earth 188
牆倒了又生出一扇牆 A Wall Crumbles and Another Wall Comes up 192
華沙軍事博物館 Warsaw Military Museum 194
一所波蘭餐館 A Restaurant in Poland 196
奧斯維兹集中營舊址 The Remains at Auschwitz 198
克拉科夫歷史博物館 Kraków History Museum 202
雨後的歐洲 Europe after the Rain 204
威廉大帝的破教堂 The Dilapidated Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church 206
萊頓的現代中國詩會 Conference on Modern Chinese Poetry at Lyden 210
食事地誌 FOODSCAPE
鴛鴦 Tea-coffee 216
洋蔥 Onion 218
除夕盆菜 Pun Choi on New Year's Eve 220
蘇豪的早餐 Breakfast in Soho 226
柏林的啤酒 Beer in Berlin 228
青蠔與文化身份 Mussels in Brussels 232
鹹蝦醬 Salted Shrimp Paste 236
菜乾湯 Soup with Dried Chinese Cabbage 240
茄子 Eggplants 244
二人壽司 Sushi for Two 248
球鞋 Sneakers 250
試酒 Wine Tasting 256
在峰景酒店 At Bela Vista 260
帶一枚苦瓜旅行 Travelling with a Bitter Melon 266
博物館 MUSEUM PIECES
周鼎 Cauldron 274
陶俑 Clay Figures 278
銅鏡 Bronze Mirror 282
羅汉 Arhats 286
刺繡 Embroidery 290
北宋魚形壼殘件 Fragments of a Northern Song Dynasty Fish-shaped Pot 296
汉拓 Han Dynasty Rubbing 300
重畫地圖 RE-MAPPING
雀仔街 Bird Street 306
大角咀填海區 Reclamation Land in Tai Kok Tsui 310
虎豹別墅 Tiger Balm Garden 314
老殖民地建築 An Old Colonial Building 316
形象香港 Images of Hong Kong 320
香港歷史明信片 Postcards of Old Hong Kong 324
看李家昇黃楚喬照片冊有感 Leafing through Wingo and Holly's Photo Albums 328
蔡孑民先生墓前 At the Grave of Mr Cai Jiemin 332
我的六零年代 The 1960s for me 338
重畫地圖 Re-mapping 346
Acknowledgements 352
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