维杰·瑟沙德里的声音诗艺和传统

The Art of Doing Voices:Vijay Seshadri and the Poetic Consciousness

2014年普利策诗歌奖得主维杰·瑟沙德里是一位擅于处理声音的诗人。面对一个悠久丰富的英诗传统,他的诗歌以跨界的文体风格、对人称的实验性探索、突降式的行文结构独树一帜。他在诗作中频频化身他人,通过形形色色的人物声音讲述当代城市生活故事、反映时代问题。相较惠特曼集大成者的自我独立宣言,瑟沙德里用自己的方式把自我归还给了当代美国芸芸众生,并倾听他们的声音,听他们讲述普遍"意识"的不同人生故事。他相信书写普遍人性意识的诗歌最终能够带领自我走出身份的困扰、环境的桎梏和历史的梦魇。

Vijay Seshadri, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Poetry Prize, defines himself as a poet who does voices. Alongside a profound tradition of English poetry, his poems feature a trans-genre prosaic style, an experimental employment of poetic voices, and a typically Seshadrian structural turn that conveys meaning. The richness of his poems lies in his ability to imaginatively transgress what others consider boundaries of identity. Be- lieving that poetry can free the disassociated self from the borders of places and the nightmare of history, Seshadri creates a variety of poetic identities and tells a kaleido- scopic collection of contemporary urban stories in voices that lead to an omnipresent hu- man consciousness.