翠茜·史密斯的魔灵诗艺:从挽歌到科幻

Tracy K. Smith's Art of Duende: From Elegy to Sci-Fi Poetry

2012年普利策诗歌奖得主翠茜·史密斯是当代诗坛不容忽视的诗人。她把诗歌当作探索个人信仰和未知世界的魔灵艺术,将意象、形式、音乐和出发确定为诗歌的四个核心气质。她从英语诗歌悠久的挽歌传统和非裔美国诗歌丰富的想象传统中汲取养分,开创性地将挽歌和科幻相结合,对人类的生存命运做出了独特的反思。

Tracy K. Smith, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Poetry Prize, is one of the most important poets of our time. She defines poetry as an art of duende that carries the poet and reader over space and time to ask the body＇s question, explore the unknown world, and experience the awe of belief. She recognizes image, form, music and departure as the four temperaments that a poet needs to be conscious of managing in a poem. Well cultivated in a rich school of English elegy and African American literary imagination, Smith succeeds in marrying a sci-fi vision to the genre of elegy and thus creating a poetic world of her own where she invites readers to envisage the future of mankind by calling attention to the power of it that is beyond, bigger than, and connected to us.