Poetry Quarterly

  Editor-in-Chief:
  Yidan Han

  Contributing Editor:
  Kyle David Anderson

郑南川 Nanchuan Zheng 郑南川，1988年出国，定居加拿大蒙特利尔。加拿大魁北克华人作家协会现任主席（十届），曾担任第五届，九届主席。主编加拿大魁北克华文作家作品选：《太阳雪》（短篇小说），《皮娜的小木屋》（散文），主编加拿大中国二十人诗歌选《一根线的早晨》（英中双语），著有个人英中双语诗集《一只鞋的偶然》等。 Nanchuan Zheng is a Chinese Canadian writer and chair of the Chinese Writers’ Association in Québec, Canada (CWAQ). He immigrated to Canada in 1988. He has published a bilingual book of poetry and has edited several literary works by Chinese Writers in Canada.		译者 Translator 陶志健 Zhijian Tao 陶志健，笔名子健。学者、翻译，麦吉尔大学博士，魁华作协会员；英文专著Drawing the Dragon: Western Reinvention of China，英文译著《广域书目系统学──图书馆事业与知识管理的基础》等两种，英译诗集《一只鞋的偶然》、《一根线的早晨》等两部，多篇学术论文、译文，及中文散文、诗歌等，分别发表于瑞士，新加坡，香港，中国，加拿大，美国。 Zhijian Tao is a translator and scholar, with a doctoral degree from McGill University. He is also a member of the Chinese Writers Association in Quebec, Canada. His has published two books. He has also translated, from Chinese to English, two poetry collections entitled respectively The Fortuities of a Shoe and A Line at Dawn: Anthology of 20 Poets from Canada and China. A number of his critical essays, prose writings and poems have also appeared in scholarly journals and other publications in China, Europe as well as in North America.

一个苹果		An Apple
拿起一个苹果一个圆圆的苹果一个绿色而明亮的苹果它如同一个地球被控制在我的手中如果我放手让它落下就会摔的粉碎如果我咬上一口就会残缺无几上帝手下的世界尽然如此无助如果把它放在桌上它会慢慢变红带来芳香如果把它记忆在心中它是心脏的一半留着红红的笑脸如果我是上帝就把它种在土地上让地球长满果实如果有一天它衰老坠落入土中就给它立一个墓碑写下这样的文字地球就是一个苹果苹果的生命就是这样脆弱生活的世界—— 该像苹果那样活着		I pick up an apple a round apple a green and shiny apple It is like a planet in the control of my hands If I let go of it and let it fall it will smash into pieces If I take a bite of it it will be incomplete The world under God is so vulnerable If I put it on the table it will slowly turn red and exude a fragrance If I place it in my memory it will occupy a part of my heart and keep its red smile If I were God I would plant such apples in the soil and cover the earth with fruit If one day it fell down from old age I would set up a tombstone carved with the following words Earth is but an Apple An apple's life is so fragile To live in this world is to live like an apple

一个苹果

An Apple