Jack Foley（1940-）: The Most Active Post-Beat Poet in the West Coast.His career as a poet is unique because it has always involved performance, specifically the presentation of "multivoiced" pieces written by Foley but performed by both Foley and his wife Adelle Foley (1940-2016). Since 1988, Foley has also hosted a show of interviews and poetry presentations on Berkeley radio station KPFA.

杰克·弗利（1940-）：加州西海岸最活跃的后垮掉派诗人。他作为诗人的生涯独一无二，总是与诗歌朗诵表演联系在一起，尤其是"多声部"的朗诵。通常弗利主创，和他的妻子阿德尔·弗利（1940-2016）合作，一面弹奏吉他，一面两人先后紧接朗诵。自1988以来，杰克·弗利主持伯克利西海岸广播电台KPFA的访谈和诗歌朗诵，拥有广泛的听众。

张子清是南京大学外国文学研究所教授，北京外国语大学华裔美国文学研究中心客座研究员。哈佛-燕京访问学者（1982-83），美国富布莱特访问学者（1993-94）。中国作家协会会员、全国美国文学研究会常务理事、中国比较文学学会会员。代表作：《20世纪美国诗歌史》（1995，1997）。主编"华裔美国小说丛书"（译林出版社）、"西方人看中国丛书"（南京出版社）。

Ziqing Zhang is professor of Institute of Foreign Literature, Nanjing University, Nanjing, guest research Fellow of Chinese American Literature Research Center, Beijing University of Foreign Studies, Beijing. He was a visiting scholar as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University from 1982 to 1983 and Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University and The University of California at Berkeley from 1993 to 1994. His works include A History of 20th Century American Poetry (1995, 1997), Selected Poems of T.S.Eliot (1985), Selected American Poems (1993) and Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes (1998). He has co-authored Two Sides of the Globe: Contemporary Chinese and American Literatures and Their Comparison (1993) and On American New Pastoral Poems (2006). He has received many awards including The First Prize of Humanities Research Science Foundation of Nanjing University in 1998.

Palmyra

巴尔米拉

"City of Palms," said the Romans.
Tadmor, "City of Dates," say the locals.
One of the world's great historical sites,
Roman ruins better preserved than in Rome.
As we drove there, our driver, Abu-Hani
("Father of Hani," one of various names he took)
Remarked that the border between Syria and Lebanon
Kept shifting: "You drive along the same road
And sometimes you are in Syria and
Sometimes you are in Lebanon."
He made a remark about an "earthquake."
I thought he meant what we had in California.
"This earthquake," he explained,
"Was made by Israel."
			

"棕榈之城，"罗马人说。
泰德穆尔; "日期之城"，当地人说。
世界上最伟大的历史遗迹之一，
这里的罗马废墟保存得比在罗马还好。
当我们开车去那里时，我们的司机阿布-哈尼
("哈尼之父"，他取的多种不同的名字之一)
说叙利亚和黎巴嫩之间的边界
不停地变换:"你沿着
同一条路行驶，有时你在
叙利亚，有时你在黎巴嫩。"
他谈到了"地震"。我以为
他指的是我们在加州的那种地震。
"这个地震,"他解释说,
"是由以色列造成。"
			

The Great Ummayyad Mosque,

伟大的奥马耶德清真寺,

Created because of the Caliph Khaled ibn al-Walid's desire
To empower the image of his city with "a mosque
The equal of which was never designed
By anyone before me or anyone after me."
The site was once associated with the Aramaean god, Hadad,
With the Roman god, Jupiter,
Even with the Christians:
A basilica, said to contain the head of John the Baptist,
Is housed there:
The casket containing the head can still be seen.

"It's like a cathedral," my son remarked accurately.
In the great spaciousness of the prayer hall,
People prayed, walked, held classes…
			

因哈立德-伊本-瓦利德哈里发的欲望
而造，这是赋予他的城市形象的"一座
前无古人后无来者可比的清真寺。"
该遗址曾与阿拉姆神哈达德有关，
与罗马众神之王朱庇特，
甚至与基督徒有关:
一座大殿据说里面藏有施洗的约翰头颅：
装着他头颅的棺材依然可见。

"就像一座大教堂，"我的儿子准确地说。
在宽敞的祈祷大厅里，
人们祈祷、行走、授课……