Hungry Ghost: 餓鬼

Anne Waldman 安妮•華曼

2015年11月 · 香港中文大學出版社

关于此电子书

This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-two titles published for 2015 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2015 is "Poetry and Conflict". 21 international poets from 18 different places are invited to participate in recitations, symposia and sharing sessions of the Poetry Nights. A recitation focusing on 10 local Hong Kong poets, "Hong Kong Cantonese Poetry Night" is included. This collection seeks to make accessible the best of contemporary international poetry with outstanding translations.

作者简介

Anne Waldman is a poet, performer, professor, editor and cultural activist. Allen Ginsberg has often referred to Waldman as his “spiritual wife.” She is the author of over 40 books of poetry, including the mini-classic Fast Speaking Woman (City Lights, 1974), Marriage: A Sentence (Penguin Poets, 2000), the book-length hybrid Manatee/Humanity (Penguin Poets, 2009), and the feminist epic The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (Coffee House, 2011) which is the winner of the 2012 PEN Center USA Award for Poetry. Waldman is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2013–14) and a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. 安妮．華曼，集詩人、表演家、教授、編輯、文化活動家於一身，曾與艾倫．金斯堡在科羅拉多州納羅帕大學一起創立傑克．凱魯亞克解體詩藝學院。華曼現為納羅帕大學詩學榮譽教授，擔任該校夏季寫作課程的藝術主任。金斯堡常常把華曼稱為「心靈上的妻子」。她曾出版超過40本詩集，包括精微經典系列詩集《快嘴女人》( 1974)、《婚姻：審判》( 2000)、《海牛╱人性》( 2009) 等。華曼憑藉《曖葦絲三部曲：隱蔽機制的顏色》贏得「2012 美國筆會詩歌獎」，2013-2014 年獲得「古根漢獎金」，現為美國詩人學院的主席。《出版人週報》譽華曼為「反文化巨人」。