帶一枚苦瓜去旅行 Travelling with a bitter melon

书籍目录

Table of Contents

Foreword:An Ethics of Consumption / by Rey Chow 9

Introduction / by Martha P.Y. Cheung 19

蟬鳴 CICADA CHIRPS

茶 Tea 38

半途 Halfway 40

雷聲與蟬鳴 Thunder and the Chirping of Cicadas 44

剝海膽 Opening Sea Urchins 48

浮藻 Seaweed 52

冬日船艙 Boat Cabin in Winter 58

盆栽 Potted Plants 62

萬葉植物園遇雪 Snow in the Myriad Leaves Botanical Garden 70

初春二題 Early Spring I & II 72

舊城 OLD CITIES

拆建中的摩囉街 Demolition on Cat Street 80

寒夜,電車廠 Freezing Night,Tram Depot 84

笆掌圍斜巷 The Steep Alley at A. Agostinho 88

避雨南灣小咖啡店 Sheltering from Rain in a Coffee Shop in Praia Grande 90

大三笆牌坊 St. Paul's Ruins 94

關閘 Barrier Gate 98

舊城 Dreary City 102

鐘乳岩 Stalactites 104

湖 The Lake 108

故宮 Imperial Palace 112

西洋畫素描班 Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing 114

北京早晨 Morning, Beijing 116

游詩 JOURNEYS

待魚 Waiting for Fish 120

一個尋常的雨天 An Ordinary Rainy Day 128

除夕 New Year's Eve 132

聽John Cage 音樂會回來的路上 After John Cage 138

太陽昇起的頌詩 Ode to the Sun Rising 146

用左手的女人 The Left-handed Woman 150

修理屋背的頌詩 Ode to Roof Repair 154

在紐約街頭看落葉 Watching Falling leaves on a New York Street 160

蓮葉 LOTUS LEAVES

連葉 Leaf Contact 166

冕葉 Leaf Crown 170

戀葉 Leaf Enchantment 174

憐葉 Leaf Pity 178

漣葉 Leaf Ripples 180

牆後 BEYOND THE WALLS

靜物 Still-life 184

大地上的居所 A Shelter on Earth 188

牆倒了又生出一扇牆 A Wall Crumbles and Another Wall Comes up 192

華沙軍事博物館 Warsaw Military Museum 194

一所波蘭餐館 A Restaurant in Poland 196

奧斯維兹集中營舊址 The Remains at Auschwitz 198

克拉科夫歷史博物館 Kraków History Museum 202

雨後的歐洲 Europe after the Rain 204

威廉大帝的破教堂 The Dilapidated Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church 206

萊頓的現代中國詩會 Conference on Modern Chinese Poetry at Lyden 210

食事地誌 FOODSCAPE

鴛鴦 Tea-coffee 216

洋蔥 Onion 218

除夕盆菜 Pun Choi on New Year's Eve 220

蘇豪的早餐 Breakfast in Soho 226

柏林的啤酒 Beer in Berlin 228

青蠔與文化身份 Mussels in Brussels 232

鹹蝦醬 Salted Shrimp Paste 236

菜乾湯 Soup with Dried Chinese Cabbage 240

茄子 Eggplants 244

二人壽司 Sushi for Two 248

球鞋 Sneakers 250

試酒 Wine Tasting 256

在峰景酒店 At Bela Vista 260

帶一枚苦瓜旅行 Travelling with a Bitter Melon 266

博物館 MUSEUM PIECES

周鼎 Cauldron 274

陶俑 Clay Figures 278

銅鏡 Bronze Mirror 282

羅汉 Arhats 286

刺繡 Embroidery 290

北宋魚形壼殘件 Fragments of a Northern Song Dynasty Fish-shaped Pot 296

汉拓 Han Dynasty Rubbing 300

重畫地圖 RE-MAPPING

雀仔街 Bird Street 306

大角咀填海區 Reclamation Land in Tai Kok Tsui 310

虎豹別墅 Tiger Balm Garden 314

老殖民地建築 An Old Colonial Building 316

形象香港 Images of Hong Kong 320

香港歷史明信片 Postcards of Old Hong Kong 324

看李家昇黃楚喬照片冊有感 Leafing through Wingo and Holly's Photo Albums 328

蔡孑民先生墓前 At the Grave of Mr Cai Jiemin 332

我的六零年代 The 1960s for me 338

重畫地圖 Re-mapping 346

Acknowledgements 352

作者简介

"It is fitting that Travelling With A Bitter Melon, the most comprehensive collection of Leung Ping-kwan's poetry, should come at a tim e when Hong Kong is experiencing an upsurge of interest in home-grown writing. Fitting, because this bilingual volume will serve to remind those striving to forge Hong Kong's English-language voice that the city's most gifted poet has been writing and publishing in Chinese for more than a quarter of a century, and has built up an invaluable body of work over that time. This book is a must for anyone who takes Hong Kong writing seriously.

"The complicated subject of Hong Kong identity dominates. Leung focuses deliberately on the ordinary: a teacup, a tree, a deserted tram depot, a bitter melon. They are our shared images and they are treated tenderly.

"A thread of disciplined intelligence runs through Leung's work, lending these mundane images a singular power. The first poem in the volume, 'Tea,' reveals the poet's trademark preoccupation with food as a metaphor. In this poem, 'Jasmine petals gather/or disperse in patterns', a reminder of dear friends: 'Kept apart by so many trivialities/we have no moment of silence/to sit and sip together'.

"The lines are redolent of classical Chinese poetry, a key interest ?Leung is professor of Chinese at Lingnan University in Tuen Mun.

"Leung's language is crisp, searching and unsentimental without simplifying his subject matter. In 'Fragments Of A Northern Song Dynasty Fish-shaped Pot,' the poet wonders from where in China it came, and concludes: 'The fragments say: Please carefully study our grain/Don't read us into/Your history.' Hong Kong is on the periphery, offering alternative solutions to what it means to be Chinese in the modern world.

"Later, in 'Images Of Hong Kong,' the narrator searches for a postcard to send a friend. Yet he finds mostly 'Exotica for a faraway audience...Entangled with what others have said/Why is it so hard to tell our own stories?'

"The poems offer a chronological journey froth the relative stability of the 1970s through the growing insecurities of the 1980s as the Joint Declaration on Hong Kong's future was signed.

"This collection also shows Leung's proclivity for food as a metaphor of cultural identity, something pointed out in Rey Chow's excellent introductory essay.

"In 'Mussels In Brussels,' the poet muses: 'All say mussels have no identity problems/Perhaps...after all, here in Brussels/we still eat Canadian mussels'. Yet the poem's final conclusion argues for a sense of origin: 'Chinese mussels strayed from home/thousands of miles away, still taste of/the ponds and lakes that bred them.'

"There is a cinematic quality to much of Leung's work, which one of his translators, Gordon Osing, has attributed to the elisions in the lines. This isn't a coincidence ?Leung is interested in film, and film is the art form that has done the most to articulate the modern Hong Kong sensibility and win it an international audience. The films of John Woo or Wong Kar-wai are examples of this.

"If poetry is an overlooked art these days, then Hong Kong poetry falls into a doubly ignored category, being poetry from a city in which few people are interested in the written word.

"Yet readers will find a vividness and veracity of historical, cultural and emotional detail which, rooted in the Hong Kong experience, should put to rest any doubts about the city's place as a literary hub."

Didi Kirsten Tatlow

South China Morning Post

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