Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts. After graduating from Smith College in 1955, she moved to Cambridge, England, on a Fulbright Scholarship. Her first collection of poems, Colossus, was published in 1960 in England. In 1963, Plath published a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar. Most of her poems were published posthumously, including The Collected Poems, which was the recipient of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize.

西尔维娅-普拉斯于1932年出生于美国麻省波士顿，1955年从史密斯学院毕业，后获富布莱特奖学金赴英国剑桥深造。1960年在英国出版第一本诗集《巨像》，1963年出版半自传体小说《钟罩》。普拉斯大部分诗在她死后集结出版，包括获1982年普利策奖的《诗集》。

冯冬，1979年生于重庆，南京大学英文系博士毕业，现任教于暨南大学，译过游记《中华帝国纪行》、《亲密接触中国》、小说《蛛网与磐石》等，在海内外诗刊发表作品，与人合著诗集《残酷的乌鸦》（2011），主要研究诗歌、精神分析和当代哲学。

Peter Feng was born in Chongqing, China, in 1979. He has received a Ph.D degree in literature from Nanjing University and currently teaches English at Jinan University. He has co-translated A Journey through the Chinese Empire, Intimate China, and The Web and the Rock, and co-written a book of poems Cruel Raven (2011). His study includes poetry, psychoanalysis, and contemporary philosophy.

Female Author

女作家

All day she plays at chess with the bones of the world:
Favored (while suddenly the rains begin
Beyond the window) she lies on cushions curled
And nibbles an occasional bonbon of sin.

Prim, pink-breasted, feminine, she nurses
Chocolate fancies in rose-papered rooms
Where polished highboys whisper creaking curses
And hothouse roses shed immortal blooms.
The garnets on her fingers twinkle quick
And blood reflects across the manuscript;
She muses on the odor, sweet and sick,
Of festering gardenias in a crypt,
And lost in subtle metaphor, retreats
From gray child faces crying in the streets.
			

她整天与世界的骨头下棋：
受宠地（窗外突然下雨）
躺在软垫上，蜷曲
偶尔轻咬原罪的糖果。

玫瑰墙纸的房里，她怀着
巧克力幻想，端庄，粉胸，娇柔
擦亮的高脚柜吱呀地诅咒，
暖房的玫瑰落下不道德的花。

她手指上的石榴红闪烁
手稿上映出血；
她沉思香气，甜蜜而病态，
栀子花溃烂在地窖，

她迷失于精微的隐喻，从街上
灰色的哭泣的孩子脸中回撤。
			

Midsummer Mobile

盛夏的动态雕塑

                           
Begin by dipping your brush into clear light.
Then syncopate a sky of Dufy-blue
With tilted spars of sloops revolved by white
Gulls in a feathered fugue of wings. Outdo

Seurat: fleck schooner flanks with sun and set
A tremolo of turquoise quivering in
The tessellated wave. Now nimbly let
A tinsel pizzicato on fish fin

Be plucked from caves of dappled amber where
A mermaid odalisque lolls at her ease 
With orange scallops tangled in wet hair,
Fresh from the mellow palette of Matisse:

Suspended this day, so singularly designed,
Like a rare Calder mobile in your mind. 
			

首先让你的画笔浸染明净的光。
接着以帆船的斜桅切分
杜菲蓝的天空，白鸥的羽毛赋格曲
旋飞其上。超越修拉：

让斑驳的阳光映照船侧，布置
一阵碧绿的颤音于
方格子波浪。在鱼鳍上轻灵地
拨出一段金丝线的弹奏。

杂纹琥珀的岩穴中
一位美人鱼侍女闲躺，
湿发间缠饰橙色扇贝，
马蒂斯丰美的调色板刚画好：

将此日悬挂，这般独特设计
如心中一座珍稀的考尔德动态雕塑。