选自《十月的献诗》

Mang Ke is a seminal contemporary Chinese poet and co-founder of Jintian (Today), the first unofficial literary journal to be published in the People's Republic of China. He is a painter as well as a poet and has also published fiction. A volume of his selected poems in English translation, October Dedications, is forthcoming from Zephyr and Chinese University Press. He lives in Songzhuang, outside Beijing.

Lucas Klein is a father, writer, translator, and assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Jacket, Rain Taxi, CLEAR, Comparative Literature Studies, and PMLA, and from Black Widow, Fordham University Press, and New Directions. His translation Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems of Xi Chuan won the 2013 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, and his October Dedications, translations of the poetry of Mang Ke, is now available from Zephyr and Chinese University presses. New York Review Books will be publishing his translations of Tang dynasty poet Li Shangyin, and his monograph, The Organization of Distance: Poetry, Translation, Chineseness, is forthcoming from Brill.