LIUBAI
留白
Yang Lian · 杨炼
Where the Sea Stands Still gathers poems in which body, memory, landscape and language repeatedly cross one another’s boundaries. Liubai follows the architecture of Yang Lian’s collection poem by poem, bringing each work into conversation with an extended essay presented in both a reading edition and a graphic edition.
《大海停止之处》中的诗不断穿越身体、记忆、风景与语言之间的边界。留白依照杨炼原诗集的结构与次序,逐首展开阅读;每一首诗均配有一篇深入评论,并以完整阅读版与图文版两种形式呈现。
Yi is Yang Lian’s long reworking of the Book of Changes: a single sixty-four-part poem in which cosmology, history, memory and language are folded into one architecture. Rather than poem-by-poem commentary, Liubai approaches Yi through an extended essay that follows the poem’s structure, images and philosophical stakes, tracing how this vast work becomes a root text for the rest of Yang Lian’s archive.
《YI》是杨炼对《易经》的长篇重写:一首由六十四个“房间”构成的单一长诗,将宇宙论、历史、记忆与语言压入同一座建筑。留白不作逐首评论,而以一篇较为展开的长文沿其结构、意象与思想推进阅读,追索这部巨作如何成为杨炼整个诗歌档案的根部文本。
Concentric Circles builds an ever-widening poetic architecture in which time, body, memory and language return altered at every level. Liubai follows each Circle in two stages: Chinese-first, chapter-by-chapter close readings, then three expanded essays, each exploring a distinct critical terrain. The result is a layered reading that follows the work’s structure without reducing it to one interpretation.
《同心圆》构筑出不断向外展开的诗歌建筑:时间、身体、记忆与语言在每一层次重返,又在重返中发生变化。留白以两个阶段阅读每一圈:先从中文原诗出发,逐章细读,再展开三篇各具批评视野的深入评论。这种层层展开的阅读追随作品的结构,同时保留其多重阐释的可能。
Narrative Poem weaves family images, music, lost places and voices of the dead through photograph, elegy and ruin, asking how a life becomes history. Liubai follows its three Parts with Chinese-first close readings and English essays attentive to Brian Holton’s translation. Three lenses conclude each Part, exploring form and music, memory and history, and the literary voices that shape the living.
《叙事诗》以照片、挽歌与废墟交织家庭影像、音乐、消逝之地和死者的声音,追问生命如何成为历史。留白依照全书三部,从中文原诗出发逐首细读,并以英文评论回应布莱恩·霍尔顿的翻译。每部最后以三重视角探讨形式与音乐、记忆与历史,以及塑造生者之声的文学回响。
Riding Pisces gathers poems from five collections, tracing Yang Lian’s passage through exile, masks, ghostly memory, urban history and late lyric intimacy. Rather than following a single book poem by poem, Liubai presents this volume as a constellation: a way of entering several phases of his poetry through one crossing archive.
《骑乘双鱼座》汇集杨炼五部诗集的选篇,贯穿流亡、面具、幽灵般的记忆、城市历史与后期抒情的亲密性。它并非对单一诗集逐首细读,而更像一组彼此照应的星座:让读者通过一部交汇性的选本,进入杨炼诗歌创作的几个不同阶段。
FUTURE READINGS · 留待未来
Liubai’s bilingual readings will follow at a later date, giving this new collection time to reach its readers. In the meantime, we warmly encourage you to purchase the book and encounter Yang Lian’s poetry in Brian Holton’s translation.
留白的双语阅读与评论将留待日后推出,让这部新作先与读者相遇。此刻,我们诚挚邀请您购买诗集,在布莱恩·霍尔顿的英译中阅读杨炼的诗歌。
Constellations brings poetry, images and philosophy into active relation. Four interactive encounters move from Yang Lian, Pound and Warburg through poetic form and relational thought to the sixty-four rooms of Yi, the Book of Changes and Leibniz’s binary imagination. Enter through an image, a question or a cast of coins, and follow the connections.
《星座计划》让诗歌、图像与哲学进入主动的关联。四组互动式相遇,从杨炼、庞德与瓦尔堡出发,穿过诗歌形式与关系思想,走进《Yi》的六十四个房间、《易经》与莱布尼茨的二进制构想。从一个意象、一个问题,或一次投币进入,循着关联前行。