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　　This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-two titles published for 2015 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2015 is “Poetry and Conflict”. 21 international poets from 18 different places are invited to participate in recitations, symposia and sharing sessions of the Poetry Nights. A recitation focusing on 10 local Hong Kong poets, “Hong Kong Cantonese Poetry Night” is included. This collection seeks to make accessible the best of contemporary international poetry with outstanding translations.

作者簡介

費平樂

　　1960年生於里斯本，為醫科畢業生，其後研究當代語言文學並取得博士學位。現為里斯本大學文學院文學教授，並主理葡萄牙教育部「國家閱讀計劃」。他出版過六本詩集、兩本散文和兩本小說，另譯有葡文版波德賴爾的《惡之花》、魏倫的《憂鬱詩篇》及博爾赫斯的所有詩作。

　　Fernando Pinto do Amaral, writer, poet, literary critic and translator, is a professor at the University of Lisbon, where he has been teaching since 1987. Amaral’s publications include six books of poetry, two books of essays, two volumes of fiction, and two books for children. He has translated into Portuguese Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal, Verlaine’s Poèmes Saturniens and the complete poetical works of Jorge Luis Borges.

無眠
 
終於離開這裏，終於
沒有了心
沒有了聲音
也不再等人向你重複
柔和的旋律
不可能的詞語，雖然
它們總是那般溫柔，一如「愛」
「永恆」，尤其是「詩」。
沒有理由，也不曾有過理由
淺唱著搖籃曲，哄你的無眠入睡
 
（姚風 譯）
 
Insomnia
 
To get out of here at last  To be at last
without heart
without voice
without hope that someone will come to repeat
for you gentle melopeias
words impossible and at the same time
always so sweet like "love"
or "eternity" or most of all
"poetry" There are
no reasons nor ever were to murmur
lullabies to gently rock to sleep each night
your insomnia
 
(Translated by Alexis Levitin)