请推荐几首翻译的比较好的？
Ｗ·Ｓ·默温，二十世纪美国著名诗人、“新超现实主义”诗歌流派的代表人物之一，生于纽约市，早年就读于普林斯顿大学，大学时代开始诗歌生涯，其处女诗集《两面神的面具》(1952)被奥顿收入耶鲁青年诗人丛书，1954年获得“肯庸评论诗歌奖”，1956-1967年担任马萨储塞大学驻校作家。此后他去了欧洲，先后在英国、法国、葡萄牙和马约卡群岛等地从事学术研究，同时翻译了大量法语、西班牙语古典和现代诗歌。1968年回到美国，汇入当时蓬勃发展的新超现实主义诗歌运动，并最终成为该诗派主将之一。他的诗集有《两面神的面具》(1952)、《跳舞的熊》(1954)、《移动的靶子》(1963)、《虱》(1967)、《搬梯者》(1970)、《写给一次未完成的伴奏》(1973)、《罗盘之花》(1977)、《张开的手》(1983)、《林中的雨》(1988)、《旅行》(1993)、《雌狐》(1996)、《瞳孔》(2001)等，其中《移动的靶子》和《搬梯者》分获美国全国图书奖和普利策诗歌奖。另有散文三卷、译作近十卷。
作为“新超现实主义”诗歌流派的代表人物，默温的诗歌作品却非常独特，貌似松散、甚至神秘，但内含一种抒情的音调。他善于在诗里将自然和日常经验上升到一个更高的、扑朔迷离的境界中去，因此他的诗常常用闪忽的、蜻蜓点水似的语言写成，具有开放而洗炼的形式，深邃而广远的想象力，以深入到一个“更为隐蔽的世界”中去。默温的诗作绝不是那种一读就懂的东西，读者往往需要多次阅读才能进入他所创造的那个有轻度神秘倾向的世界。只有反复阅读，才能把握默温的诗歌所传递的深邃内涵。
W·S·默温（1927年9月30日－2019年3月15日）。
默温与庞德、斯奈德、勃莱和斯蒂文斯一起，成为又一位受中国诗歌哲学影响的重要美国诗人。他曾翻译过一部东方诗集，叫《东方的窗口》，他淡到极致的时间感伤、超乎言语的缄默表达以及从视觉到感觉到记忆幻觉转化的自然画面感可与晚期的王维媲美。这本诗集（《天狼星的阴影》）的高超之处，在于把垂暮之年、生死交接之处缄默而复杂的回忆情绪转化为各种纯粹的光影效果的能力。生与死、消逝与永恒、伤痛与欢乐，在默温笔下都化为光影的运作，成为“天狼星的阴影”。当死亡如天狼般吞噬生命、伸张他未来的主权时，默温诗歌的回答是：“我触摸到白天/我品尝到光/我记得”。——节选自《天狼星的阴影》译后记
电影《醉乡民谣》剧照
漂泊的笛声
曾经向我吟唱的你此刻再次响起
让我倾听你悠扬的笛音
你共我延存至今
星辰转暗
我的思绪远过星辰却沉入遗忘
你可听见我
你还能听见我吗
你的空气是否
还记得你
啊清晨的气息
夜歌与晨歌
还陪伴着我
我无法探知的一切
从未失落
但我此刻已经懂得
不再会问你
你从哪儿学会这乐曲
它来自何处
古老的中国曾有雄狮
我倾听直到笛声停止
直到灯光再次陈旧
注意：默温的原诗全诗第一行第一个字母大写，其余每行首字母（包括另一节起行的首字母）并不大写。
电影《醉乡民谣》剧照
The Nomad Flute
You that sang to me once sing to me now
let me hear your long lifted note
survive with me
the star is fading
I can think farther than that but I forget
do you hear me
do you still hear me
does your air
remember you
o breath of morning
night song morning song
I have with me
all that I do not know
I have lost none of it
but I know better now
than to ask you
where you learned that music
where any of it came from
once there where lions in China
I will listen until the flute stops
and the light is old again
当你已经成为我心目中的
一半记忆／一半距离
电影《美国往事》剧照
青春
在所有的青春中我寻找你
不知道我寻找的是什么
不知道你叫什么甚至不知道
我在寻找，那么怎么能说我
那时见到你时认识了你
一次次你出现在我脑海
像从前那样裸露完整地
奉献你自己，让我
呼吸你，触摸你，品尝你，不比
从前更了解你，只有当我
开始感到失落时我才
认识你，当你已经成为我心目中的
一半记忆一半距离时
我才学会思念你
从我们所不能拥有的诞生了星辰
电影《美国往事》剧照
Youth
Through all of youth I was looking for you
without knowing what I was looking for
or what to call you I think I did not
even know I was looking how would I
have known you when I saw you as I did
time after time when you appeared to me
as you did naked offering yourself
entirely at that moment and you let
me breath you touch you taste you knowing
no more than I did and only when I
began to think of losing you did I
recognize you when you were already
part memory part distance remaining
mine in the ways that I learn to miss you
from what we cannot hold the stars are made
只有人类相信／告 别有一个词
电影《雾中风景》剧照
别离
只有人类相信
告别有一个词
每一种语言中都有一个
属于我们最早学会的一批词
它来自问候语
但他们要远离
举手挥别
告别面孔、人和地点
告别动物和白天
把那个词落在身后
把那个词的意义落在身后
电影《雾中风景》剧照
Going
Only humans believe
there is a word for goodbye
we have one in every language
one of the first words we learn
it is made out of greeting
but they are going away
the raised hand waving
the face the person the place
the animal the day
leaving the word behind
and what it was meant to say
／最后写的诗是我现在最先返回的诗／
电影《长路将尽》剧照
磨损的词语
最后写的诗是
我现在最先返回的诗
跟随那一直
召唤我的希望
那希望在字里行间等待
几乎昭然若现
最后写的诗
由词语构成
那些词经过漫长路程
才到达所在
电影《犹在镜中》剧照
Worn Words
The late poems are the ones
I turn to first now
following a hope that keeps
beckoning me
waiting somewhere in the lines
almost in plain sight
it is the late poems
that are made of words
that have come the whole way
they have been there
我信仰普通的一天
此时此地，就是我
电影《堤》剧照
关于瞬间的信条
我信仰普通的一天
此时此地，就是我
我看不见它的途径
我从未看到它如何到达我
它超出一切
我所能感知的知识和真实
它带走此时
离我而去后不知它去向何处
除今天这个地点外我一无所知
只知道环绕我的未知重重
仿佛今天是唯一留下的存在
是属于我的一切，它甚至
赋予我对于今天的信仰方式
只要它在此时此地，是我
电影《堤》剧照
A Momentary Creed
I believe in the ordinary day
that is here at this moment and is me
I do not see it going its own way
but I never saw how it came to me
it extends beyond whatever I may
think I know and all that is real to me
it is the present that it bears away
where has it gone when it has gone from me
there is no place I know outside today
except for the unknown all around me
the only presence that appears to stay
everything that I call mine it lent me
even the way that I believe the day
for as long as it is here and is me
蓦然间以天然的速度
飞过世界的所有时间
电影《蓝》剧照
仅仅如此
当我想起我曾有过的忍耐
在黑暗中，在我记起
或明白那是夜晚以前，直到光
蓦然间以天然的速度
飞过世界的所有时间
无视能否到达
之后是第一批星的聚集
在它们开花的空间，从容不迫地
直入故事深处，行星
缓缓冷却，雨的年纪
然后海开始保存记忆
第一个细胞醒来时的注视
倏忽之间如何开始得这般仓促
随时由闪电照亮的阅读
几乎无言，这片虚无，这个天堂
电影《午后的迷惘》剧照
Just This
When I think of the patience I have had
back in the dark before I remember
or knew it was night until the light came
all at once at the speed it was born to
with all the time in the world to fly through
not concerned about ever arriving
and then the gathering of the first stars
unhurried in their flowering spaces
and far into the story the planets
cooling slowly and the ages of rain
then the seas starting to bear memory
the gaze of the first cell at its waking
how did this haste begin this little time
at any time this reading by lightning
scarcely a word this nothing this heaven
默温诗歌用字极简，句式却绵延缠绕，一句话常常横跨多排诗行，像普鲁斯特的句子，穿越所有时间的记忆空间，在他东方式的、往往看似纯自然界的描写中，他也能像普鲁斯特那样，西方式地实现从视觉到感觉到记忆幻觉的多层意识空间的拓展。从诗歌的标题“天狼星的阴影”，我们可以洞悉，诗歌的主题是星辰代表的时间和永恒在人类记忆意识的屏幕上投下的捉摸不定的阴影。
默温充分运用了英文的简洁抽象性，在英文中往往最简单的词，有时甚至一个小小的介词，都具有最大的抽象性和多义性，而中文是极其具象的语言，无论是象形、会意字与自然界具体物象的联系，还是古诗语法省略、意象缺乏明显逻辑链接而并置的作风。此外，中文句法不可能像英文那样无限度地叠加从句， 所以有些太长的句子不得不截断，影响了英文诗句的连续延伸所创造的感觉主体绵绵若存、持游于记忆空间的效果，这些都是诗歌翻译不可避免的损失。
1 《在故事中静远》
W.S. 默温
那个男孩走着有一群鹤
跟随着他并呼号着当它们
自他身后的地平线飞来
有时他以为他可以辨认出
所有呼号中的一种嗓音
但他不能听出它们呼号什么
而当他回首他无法将他们中起起
落落的呼号声彼此分别
但是他继续尝试去记得
他们呼号声中某样东西
直至他跌撞蹒跚地回到
他自己和面前的天日
空阔之野与径上的石块
静静躺着而每棵树在自己的叶中
群鹤在天空消失了而在
那一刻他记得他是谁
只是已忘却他的名字
Far Along in the Story
W.S. Merwin
The boy walked with a flock of cranes
following him calling as they came
from the horizon behind him
sometimes he thought he could recognize
a voice in all that calling but he
could not hear what they were calling
and when he looked back he could not tell
one of them from another in their
rising and falling but he went on
trying to remember something in
their calls until he stumbled and came
to himself with the day before him
wide open and the stones of the path
lying still and each tree in its own leaves
the cranes were gone from the sky and at
that moment he remembered who he was
only he had forgotten his name
2 《致苏东坡的一封信》
【美】W.S.默温
差不多一千年以后
我问着这同样的问题
你曾经问过并始终找寻
自己回返的那些仿佛
什么都没变化除去他们
回声的音调越发深沉
而你知道的是岁月的来临
在你面前已显得陈旧
此刻的我所知道
不比那时候你所
疑问的更多当我坐在夜晚
岑寂的山谷之上想着
你在你的河上而那一
纸水鸟梦中明亮的月光
并且我还听见你
那问题之后的沉默
在今夜这些问题显得多么古老
2015.1.8 苏东坡生辰
A Letter to Su Tung P'o
W.S Merwin
Almost a thousand years later
I am asking the same questions
you did the ones you kept finding
yourself returning to as though
nothing had changed except the tone
of their echo growing deeper
and what you knew of the coming
of age before you had grown old
I do not know any more now
than you did then about what you
were asking as I sit at night
above the hushed valley thinking
of you on your river that one
bright sheet of moonlight in the dream
of the waterbirds and I hear
the silence after your questions
how old are the questions tonight
3《你离去之时》
W.S.默温
你离去之时风飒飒地抟向北方
油漆工整日劳作但油漆在日暮时掉落
显现黑色的墙壁
时钟返身去敲响那同一刻
在年月中无以立锥的时辰
在晚间裹在灰烬的床里
在一份呼吸中我醒来
这正是死者胡须开始生长的时刻
我想起我在坠落
而我正是这因由
我的词语是我永远不会成为的那件衣衫
像一个独臂男孩卷起的衣袖
When You Go Away
When you go away the wind clicks around to the north
The painters work all day but at sundown the paint falls
Showing the black walls
The clock goes back to striking the same hour
That has no place in the years
And at night wrapped in the bed of ashes
In one breath I wake
It is the time when the beards of the dead get their growth
I remember that I am falling
That I am the reason
And that my words are the garment of what I shall never be
Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy
4 《十二月的晚上》
W.S.默温
寒冷的斜坡在黑暗中站立
树木的南面摸起来却很干燥
沉重的树枝爬进生着羽毛的月光
我上前注视这些
于夜间变老的白色植物
最苍老的
已先一步前往废墟
而我听到喜鹊为明月一直弄醒
水穿流过其
自己的手指没有穷尽
今夜又一次地
我发现一个形只的祈祷，而它与人类无关。
December Night
W.S. Merwin
The cold slope is standing in darkness
But the south of the trees is dry to the touch
The heavy limbs climb into the moonlight bearing feathers
I came to watch these
White plants older at night
The oldest
Come first to the ruins
And I hear magpies kept awake by the moon
The water flows through its
Own fingers without end
Tonight once more
I find a single prayer and it is not for men
5 《任何时间》
W.S.默温
那日是在多久以前
当最终我注视它
伴着它已带走的时间
仍然在其里面
此刻在透明的光中
跟随嗓音间的飞行
叶片间际的开始
我记起的每件事物
并在它之前在我之前
以光的速度呈现
远处里我就是那个
不断向它探出的人
目睹所有时间变得更快
在它那未被搅起波澜之处
在混沌初开以前
黑暗思索着光明
Any Time
W.S. Merwin
How long ago the day is
when at last I look at it
with the time it has taken
to be there still in it
now in the transparent light
with the flight in the voices
the beginning in the leaves
everything I remember
and before it before me
present at the speed of light
in the distance that I am
who keep reaching out to it
seeing all the time faster
where it has never stirred from
before there is anything
the darkness thinking the light
6 《这是三月》
W.S.默温
这是三月而黑色的尘埃从书本中掉落
很快我就将离开
曾暂住这里的高大灵魂
业已离去
静置林荫道的无色线头低于
旧的行情
当你回望时候往事总在那里
纵使它已然瞬间消失
但当你展望的时候
用你肮脏的指节以及你肩头
那无翼的鸟儿
你能写些什么
涩苦依然在老矿井中泛起
拳头正从鸡蛋里破出
温度计抽离了死尸的嘴巴
在某一特定高度
数只风筝的尾巴顷刻间
为脚步所覆盖
我须去做的任何一切均尚未开始
It Is March
W.S. Merwin
It is March and black dust falls out of the books
Soon I will be gone
The tall spirit who lodged here has
Left already
On the avenues the colorless thread lies under
Old prices
When you look back there is always the past
Even when it has vanished
But when you look forward
With your dirty knuckles and the wingless
Bird on your shoulder
What can you write
The bitterness is still rising in the old mines
The fist is coming out of the egg
The thermometers out of the mouths of the corpses
At a certain height
The tails of the kites for a moment are
Covered with footsteps
Whatever I have to do has not yet begun
7 《分离》
W.S.默温
你的缺席已穿过了我
似线头穿越针眼。
每件我所做的事都缝缀它的色彩。
2014.3.24
Sepration
W.S.Merwin
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
8 《心愿 》
W.S.默温
我手中的星
星在坠落
规格一致的一切知晓何为无用
但愿我会向必然性鞠躬而
非向她的雇从
Wish
W.S.Merwin
The star in my
Hand is falling
All the uniforms know what's no use
May I bow to Necessity not
To her hirelings
9 《冬日黄昏》
【美】W.S.默温
斜阳孤旅无朋地落入幽冷，
没有为留与我们的一切感到责备。
它沉降下去信仰着空无。
当它去时我听到溪水奔流其后。
自那条漫漫长路带来它的笛声。
2015.5.18
Dusk in Winter
William Stanley Merwin
The sun sets in the cold without friends,
Without reproaches after all it has done for us.
It goes down believing in nothing.
When it has gone I hear the stream running after it.
It has brought its flute it is a long way.
10 《写与我死亡的周年纪念》
【美】W.S.默温
每年在不知不觉中我已度过此日
这时最后的火光将向我挥动
而沉默也将上路
不倦的行客
像一枚无光星球的光束
于是我将不再
发现生活中的自己像在一件陌生的服装
不会对大地
对一个女人的爱
以及男人的无耻感到惊奇
如同在三日雨水后的今天写作
听见鹪鹩歌唱还有降落的终止
并向着莫名的事物欠身
2015.8.17
选自默温1967年诗集《虱子》
For The Anniversary Of My Death
W.S.Merwin
Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me
And the silence will set out
Tireless traveller
Like the beam of a lightless star
Then I will no longer
Find myself in life as in a strange garment
Surprised at the earth
And the love of one woman
And the shamelessness of men
As today writing after three days of rain
Hearing the wren sing and the falling cease
And bowing not knowing to what
11、《致新年》
W. S. 默温
在最终如许的沉静中
你在山谷里出现
你的第一缕阳光抵落
触碰到一些高高的
没有被搅扰的叶梢
仿佛它们没有留意到
也根本不认识你
而后一只鸽子的嗓音
从远处自发地
叫醒早晨的嘘静
所以这就是你的声音
此时此地无论是否
有任何人听到，这就是
跟随我们年华而增添的
识见， 波澜不惊
我们的希望也如己所待
隐秘于我们面前
无法触及，却依旧可能
To the New Year
W. S. Merwin
With what stillness at last
you appear in the valley
your first sunlight reaching down
to touch the tips of a few
high leaves that do not stir
as though they had not noticed
and did not know you at all
then the voice of a dove calls
from far away in itself
to the hush of the morning
so this is the sound of you
here and now whether or not
anyone hears it this is
where we have come with our age
our knowledge such as it is
and our hopes such as they are
invisible before us
untouched and still possible
12 《距离》
W.S.默温
当你想起距离
你回想
我们是不朽的
你想起它们是从我们发端的
所有的它们都从
我们发端
无一死去，也无一被忘记
而遍及世界都有雌兽
仰面靠躺
想起海洋
The Distances
W.S.Merwin
When you think of the distances
you recall
that we are immortal
you think of them setting out from us
all of them setting out
from us
and none dies and none is forgotten
and all over the world there are dams
lying on their backs
thinking of the sea
13 《马》（The Horse）
【美】 W.S.默温
在一棵死去的树中
有一魄马的精魂
没有马
曾经在这棵树附近发现
但这棵树诞生
自一匹母马
它翻滚长长的腿
在沙沙作响的草地间
它竖起它的耳朵
抬起并把头向上甩去
而突然间站立不动
静静开始回忆
当它叶片飘落
2015.3.14
选自诗人诗集《罗盘花》（The Compass Flower,1977）
14
《最初的日子》
W·S·默温
当我自一块大陆而来
我看到它在我身后关闭
像一个失落的元素
在日复一日之后
我才相信终要离开它
这里浮现的是我记忆
长长的回光
在这另一个世界蒙纱于
破晓时分它正被
知晓的错觉里
当诸多梦境戛然消隐
遁入阴影仅仅留在
它们地点的是那些熟悉的
曾经熟悉的风景
它的道路空阔向南
屋顶从它们各自的轨道
间依次浮现依照着一份
确定得如同四季
更移的次序
田野翠绿黄褐相间
在田野外还有随年月递进
的群山红色的乳牛在坡上
云朵般的羊群则游在边缘
还有日暮时的房门
一个古老的动词在锁中转动
而那冷石的芬芳当门
再一次退入黑暗的嘘静
既不回答也不遗忘
而一种不变的惊讶
从未被驯顺或者命名
未曾持于手中
未被全然看见
但他依然如是
音讯以前的一个视像
一段梦里飞行的天赋
梦境清晰深厚在那里我瞥见
遥不可及的那些闪亮的日子
那样的熠熠中铸就现在的我
The First Days
W. S. Merwin
As I come from a continent
that I saw closing behind me
like a lost element
day after day before
I believed I was leaving it
here surfacing through the long
backlight of my recollection
is this other world veiled
in its illusion of being known
at the moment of daybreak
when the dreams all at once are gone
into shadow leaving only
in their place the familiar
once-familiar landscape
with its road open to the south
the roofs emerging on the way
from their own orbits according
to an order as certain
as the seasons
the fields emerald and mustard
and beyond them the precession
of hills with red cows on the slopes
and then the edging clouds of sheep
and the house door at evening
one old verb in the lock turning
and the fragrance of cold stone as once more
the door cedes in a dark hush
that neither answers nor forgets
and an unchanged astonishment
that has never been tamed nor named
nor held in the hand
nor ever fully seen
but it is still the same
a vision before news a gift
of flight in a dream
of clear depths where I glimpse
far out of reach the lucent days
from which now I am made
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