Voices and Visions：Mark Strand reads Elizabeth Bishop

这两天老板迷上家史，公务荒疏，我们也有一点时间网上瞎逛逛。瓦尔登湖线上正在聊冯内古特和马慧元。：）

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十四介绍了这套VHS The American Poet: Voices and Visions,真不错，看了 Elizabeth Bishop一盘，里边有几位诗人朗诵Bishop的诗。她的诗好，安静平稳。这盘里最喜欢 Mark Strand，他长的样子就很诗人，灰白头发，骨格清奇，声音特别好听，有一种后鼻腔的回音，让我想起Daniel Day Lewis最性感最浪漫的时候。：）诗还真是要读出来的，不要慷慨激昂地‘朗诵’，就那样和风细雨地读，听起来真是享受。

不喜欢坐长途公共汽车，晚上开车碰上 Moose也是灾难，可这首诗却写出了长途公共汽车半夜碰上 Moose 时的 sweet sensation of joy。；）Moose出现之前作者作了那么长那么长的铺垫，世俗生活说不尽的喧嚣和烦恼，我还一直纳闷，这首诗究竟为什么要叫 Moose,结果她就出现了。：） Mark Strand 读的就是其中的一段：

The Moose

......
--Suddenly the bus driver
stops with a jolt,
turns off his lights.

A moose has come out of
the impenetrable wood
and stands there, looms, rather,
in the middle of the road.
It approaches; it sniffs at
the bus's hot hood.

Towering, antlerless,
high as a church,
homely as a house
(or, safe as houses).
A man's voice assures us
"Perfectly harmless. . . ."

Some of the passengers
exclaim in whispers,
childishly, softly,
"Sure are big creatures."
"It's awful plain."
"Look! It's a she!"

Taking her time,
she looks the bus over,
grand, otherworldly.
Why, why do we feel
(we all feel) this sweet
sensation of joy?
......