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Yu Jian was born Born in 1954 in Yunnan Province. At the age of twenty, Yu Jian began writing his first poems in free verse. He has published over twenty books of poetry and prose and a collection of travel sketches. He has received many poetry prizes in China and other countries. He is a professor of Yunnan University.

Cindy M. Carter is a Beijing-based American translator of Chinese fiction and film. Since coming to China in 1996, she has translated over 50 award-winning independent Chinese films and documentaries, dozens of scripts, short stories, essays and poems and 2 novels.

美籍中国文学翻译家Cindy Carter，主要翻译中国小说和电影。曾翻译过40多部获奖的中国独立电影和纪录片，数十部脚本，众多的短故事、散文、诗歌，以及小说．曾获2008年英国艺术协会的资助奖励。

一枚穿过天空的钉子

The Nail That Pierced the Sky

一直为帽子所遮蔽　直到有一天
帽子腐烂　落下　它才从墙壁上突出
那个多年之前　把它敲进墙壁的动作
似乎刚刚停止　微小而静止的金属
露在墙壁上的秃顶正穿过阳光
进入它从未具备的锋利
在那里　它不只穿过阳光
也穿过房间和它的天空
它从实在的　深的一面　
用秃顶　向空的　浅的一面　刺进
这种进入和天空多么吻和　
和简单的心多么吻和
一枚穿过天空的钉子
一位刚刚登基的君王
锋利　辽阔　光芒四射
			

hidden from view by a hat     until one day
the hat rotted     and fell     the nail sticks out at last
as if the movement that drove it into the wall     all those years ago
had just now ceased     a tiny, static, bald metallic
head juts from the wall, piercing sunlight
with a sharpness     it never knew it possessed
in that place     it passes not only into the light
but into the room, into its own bit of sky
rooted in the deep end     of reality
it cranes its head     toward the shallow end     of emptiness     and stabs through
such penetration is a perfect fit with sky
a perfect merging of a simple heart
the nail that pierces sky
is like a monarch who has just ascended the throne
keen     expansive     radiant in all directions