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.

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。

我以为

Seems To Me

我以为被军火做过手术的视力
能把血肉看穿

我以为欲望在后面不停地推动世界
一次也不会落空
我以为快感这个词甚至能让我
在被风暴的强暴中达到高潮
我以为对饥饿者来讲
世界只有食品与非食品之分
我以为生命一直被平顺的呼吸垄断
咳嗽绝对是一种反动
我以为只要老男人积累了厚厚的财富
就为春天们提供了可以滑冰的湖面
我以为再节省的人也免不了使用嫉妒请客
我以为一旦认识了镜子就要为其打扮终身
我以为最前面的人不是观赏前面的景点
而是为了回头欣赏后面的风光
我以为天生的两排牙证明了集体的强悍
这就是个人要靠拢组织的理由
我以为一旦停电
就马上能让二十一世纪下台
我还以为
和平是动物性的人类最起码的追求
精神世界则充满了更多理想的陷阱

所以
我以为子弹的速度最有说服力
这世界还没有比它更快的文明


2004．12．31．

It seems to me that once eyesight goes under 
weaponry's scalpel
It can see through human flesh 

Seems to me that desire pushes the world from behind 
It never misses a beat 
Seems to me the word "thrill" gets lashed by a storm 
Before it reaches climax 
Seems to me that to a starving person 
The world is divided into edibles and non-edibles 
Seems to me our life-force gets dominated by smooth 
breathing 
And coughing is definitely an insurrection 
Seems to me the wealth accumulated by old men 
Is a frozen lake for springtimes to skate on 
Seems to me the thriftiest folks end up treating 
others to envy 
Seems to me once you make the mirror's acquaintance,
 it has you dressing up for a lifetime 
Seems to me the person furthest ahead is not there to 
enjoy the view 
He would rather turn and watch the scene behind 
Seems to me two rows of teeth are nature's way of 
proving collective strength 
Which is why individuals lean toward organizations 
Seems to me it would take nothing more than a power
blackout 
To unseat the 21st Century from history's stage 
It seems to me 
Peace is the minimal quest of our animal nature 
But the spiritual realm is filled with traps of ideals 

And so 
It seems to me the speed of bullets is most persuasive
In this world, no other kind of civilization works
quicker 

另类射击者

Alternative Gunners

                           
每个时代总有一些诗
像枪膛里退出来的发烫的弹壳
因为
总有一些只有文字才能击中的猎物
在社会的丛林中出没


2004．12．

Every era has a few poems 
Ejected from a gun's breech like hot cartridges 
This is because 
Only words can hit certain kinds of prey 
That lurk in society's jungle

自由女神怀孕了

The Goddess Of Liberty Is Pregnant

自由女神怀孕了！
这个大新闻让美国人欣喜万分
与她匹配的是体制还是经济?
另一方面
伟哥问世了好几年她也没有怀孕
而现在关键的是
她隆起的肚子里到底是什么？

抱着这样的疑问
美国人来到了不远的将来
那是在她分娩后的第二天
她依然驻守在纽约的埃利斯岛上
只是右手的火炬已换成了手机
左手上打开的则是笔记本电脑
她不无自豪地说
我刚刚在古巴分娩了一个名叫
经济的自由市场


2003．3

The Goddess of Liberty is pregnant! 
This major news item brings joy to the hearts of
Americans 
But who was her mate? 
Was it the system? 
Was it the economy? 
And we wonder why 
All this time Virgra has been with us, 
why she didn't conceive? 
Most pressing now is the question
What is bulging within her belly? 
Keeping such questions in mind 
Americans arrive in the not-too-distant future 
On the second day after giving birth 
There she is, still watching over Ellis Island 
But the torch in her right hand is a cellular phone 
And her left is cradling a notebook computer
Beaming with pride she says
I just gave birth to a free market in Cuba 
We're going to call him "Economy"