图书序言
谈偏爱
我对有可能发生的特别偏爱,
他想──不要说不出的,
冷淡无情,易于放弃
及按捺怒气或蹂躏
性情的
不要客观的,
要那徘徊于这里的,
位于「我」的开端
与「我们」聆听之间,
或是于未完成
时态与张力中
表达永恆的
抽象的掲示
及含煳的时间
这一切我都拥有
亦正因此我永远
难于完成任何东西,生活
犹如是永无止境的翻译
(何丽明 译)
On Being Partial
I’m partial to what’s possible,
he thought-not the ineffable,
distant, devoid of insistence
and temperament that tampers,
or tramples
Not the impersonal,
but that which hovers here
between the "I'' of the opening
and the "us" of your possible listening
now, or in the imperfect
tense and tension of what
in fact articulates the eternal
That abstract revelation
and slippery duration
to which, it seems, I’m given
and because of which I’m never
finished with anything, as though living
itself were an endless translation