诗歌实验的历史担当：论泰辛巴·杰斯的诗歌

Historic Responsibility in Poetic Experiment:Tyehimba Jess’s Poetry

美国普利策诗歌奖得主、非裔诗人泰辛巴·杰斯的《铅肚皮》《杂烩》等诗歌作品具有激进实验的特征,主要表现在文体杂糅、多维文本、诗体创新等方面,对诗歌的意义建构和阅读体验具有革命性意义。杰斯激进的诗歌实验以强烈的历史担当意识为动力,又是杰斯表现美国非裔文化历史复杂性的策略;诗人延续并书写了以对话和反抗为特征的美国非裔文化创新传统,表现出开放的历史观。

The poetry collections, leadbelly and Olio, written by Tyehimba Jess, an African American poet and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, contain some characteristics of radical experiments, such as hybridity of genres, multi-dimensional text, and innovation in poetic form, all of which have revolutionary significance on the construction of meaning in and the reading experience of poetry. This paper argues that Jess’ s radical poetic experiment is driven by his fully-charged sense of historic responsibility and explored as his strategy to represent the complexity of the history of African American culture. Jess emulates and writes about the African American tradition of cultural innovation that has been consistently focused on dialog and rebellion, while demonstrating his open view of history.