严力
Yan Li
 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.
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译者
Translator
Paul Manfredi
保罗-曼弗来德
Paul Manfredi received his Phd in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Indiana University in 2001. He is currently an assistant professor of Chinese at Pacific Lutheran University and specializes in modern and contemporary Chinese poetry and visual culture. Recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese and Modern Chinese Literature and Culture.
保罗-曼弗来德2001年取得印第安那大学东亚系博士学位。他现为太平洋-卢森大学助教，发表过很多研究当代中国文学的论文。
Denis Mair
梅丹理
 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。
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温度对生命的重要性
不仅仅是热胀冷缩
温度还能生产或消灭颜色
歌唱或沉默
甚至文字因温度而朦胧或清澈
你或者游泳
或者躲在棉衣里
或者奔放或者收拢枝条上的一切
大自然说四季不能同时共存
甚至一样的温度
也还有春秋之分
甚至屋檐下融化的冰柱
也有国家之别
体会嘴中积压多年之后
滴落的口水
中国人最能体会：
什么叫做因为温度的允许
可以说几句真话了
02/16/2005
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The importance of temperature to life
Is more than mere heat expansion and cold retraction
Temperature bears and extinguishes color
Creates song and silence
Even obscures or enlivens writing itself
Whether you are swimming
Or wrapping yourself in cotton clothing
Releasing out or gathering it all in from branches
Nature places four seasons in succession
Even a single temperature
Has its spring and fall
Even the icicles under the eaves
Have a nation of origin
Chinese like no other appreciate the saliva
Excreted under years of pressured silence:
The feeling of saying a few truthful words
When the temperature is finally just right
(Translated by Paul Manfredi)
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