诗人、画家、作家。1954年生于北京。他是1979年北京先锋艺术团体“星星画会”和地下文学团体“今天”的成员。1985年从北京赴纽约并于1987年在纽约创立“一行”诗刊。严力出版过许多诗集和小说集，也办过数十次艺术展览。他的作品被翻译成各种文字。目前他定居上海和纽约。

Poet, painter, fiction writer, born in 1954 in Beijing, China. He is a member of a vanguard artist group "The Stars" founded in 1979 and an underground literary group "Today" in Beijing. As a poet, he is regarded as one of the members of the Misty Poets. He came to US in 1985 and founded quarterly journal Yi-Hang in New York in 1987. His poems have been translated into French, Italian, English, Swedish, Korean and German. He has held many exhibitions and published a number of books. He lives in Shanghai and New York.

Poet and translator. He is a co-translator of Frontier Taiwan(Columbia). His book of poems Man Cut in Wood was published by Valley Contemporary Press in 2003. He has lectured on the I CHING at the Temple School of Poetry (Walla Walla).

诗人和中英文翻译。 曾翻译了很多中国现代诗人的作品介绍给美国的诗坛，曾任美国西北部诗刊《诗庙》的编辑。他是美国哥伦比亚大学出版社出版的有关台湾的“前沿”一书的翻译者之一。他还曾在《寺庙》创办的诗人学校里讲课。他的个人诗集《刻在木头里的人》2003年由美国当代山谷出版社出版。

希望

Hope

假如我被埋在那里
我就必须相信爱情
相信很快有很多双手
从健康的人间伸来希望
我坚信
从这里到外面
或者从外面到这里
唯一的那条路名叫希望
我坚信
人类必会拯救自己
我的同类正在突破
无论什么样的封锁
假如我受伤严重
冥冥之中走向天国
我也会把希望之血
撒满途中
我还将留下
转交后人的希望：
人类必须摸透
具有各种脾气
但没有头脑的地球
提前避开它那
许多种残忍的发作


2008．5．14．汶川地震之后

If I were buried there
I would have to believe in love
And in many pairs of hands bearing hope
Held out by people untouched by harm
I firmly believe
From here to the outside
Or from the outside to in here
The only road is called hope
I firmly believe
Humankind will surely rescue itself
Whatever seals people off
My kindred are breaking through
If my injuries were grave and unseen forces
Were to draw me heavenward
I would sprinkle hope
With my blood along the way
I would leave behind hope
Hand it over to people after me
Humankind must make allowance
For the earth—with its foibles of temperament—
Which cannot think things through
Let us avoid ahead of time
The cruel variety of its outbursts


May 14, 2008，after Wenchuan earthquake