正如女權作家、美國詩人Marge Piercy自己所寫道,文字「打開天空和地球的奇妙」(“magic to open the sky and the earth”), 也令她決心離開一位沒有認真對待她寫作的丈夫。Marge Piercy與加拿大小說作家Margaret Atwood、奇幻小說作家Ursula K. Le Guin身處同一時代,她說:「每部小說都是我研究和居住兩三年的小世界,然後我便轉向另一個小世界。」1993年,她更獲得英國Arthur C. Clarke最佳科幻小說獎。
不過,對於既是小說家,也是詩人的Piercy而言,詩歌允許她在寫作時「驅除自傳性的衝動」(“exorcise her autobiographical impulses“),也就是說,雖然她以日常生活來寫作,但她的自我並沒有參與其中。她的小說嘗試說服讀者,讓他們重新審視日常不會接觸到的社會人物,而她的詩歌作品則非常個人化,經常觸及女權主義和社會問題,無容疑置地反映了 我們這個時代所面對的困難,表現出對社會變革的夢想。
今天,讓我們讀讀她那些陰性幽默且尖銳的詩作。
Rape Poem 節錄
There is no difference between being raped
And being pushed down a flight of cement steps
Except that the wounds also bleed inside.
被強姦與被推下一堆水泥台階 沒有區別──
除了前者令身心裡也會有傷口。
There is no difference between being raped
And being run over by a truck
Except that afterward men ask if you enjoyed it.
被強姦與被貨車碾過沒有區別──
除了前者完事後男人會問你是否享受。
There is no difference between being raped
And being bit on the ankle by a rattlesnake
Except that people ask if your skirt was short
And why you were out anyhow.
被強姦與被響尾蛇咬傷腳踝沒有區別──
除了人們會問你怎麼穿短裙,
也問你為什麼出外 。
There is no difference between being raped
And going head first through a windshield
Except that afterward you are afraid not of cars,
But half the human race.
被強姦與撞穿車子的擋風玻璃沒有區別──
除了以後你怕的不是車輛,
而是一半的人類。
What Are Big Girls Made Of? 節錄
The construction of a woman:
女人的構造:
a woman is not made of flesh
of bone and sinew
女人不是由骨肉
belly and breasts, elbows and liver and toe.
腹部和乳房、肘部和肝臟和腳趾所組成的。
She is manufactured like a sports sedan.
她就像一輛高性能房車,
She is retooled, refitted and redesigned
every decade.
每十年就要重新維修、改裝和重新設計。
You Ask Why Sometimes I Say Stop 節錄
I am open then as a palm held out,
我張開,彷如向外的掌心,
open as a sunflower, without
彷如向日葵綻放,沒有
crust, without shelter, without
外殼,沒有遮擋,沒有
skin, hideless and unhidden.
皮膚,無法隱藏,無所隱藏。
How can I let you ride
so far into me and not fear?
我怎麼能讓你長驅直進而不害怕?
Implications of One Plus One 節錄
Ten years of fitting our bodies together
我們的身體相合十年,
and still they sing wild songs in new keys.
仍然在譜出新的狂野歌曲。
It is more and less than love: timing,
這許多許少是愛情吧:時機、
chemistry, magic and will and luck.
化學作用、魔法、意志和運氣。
Belly Good 節錄
Clothing is not designed for women
服裝不是為
of whose warm and flagrant bodies
那些溫暖而芳香的女性身體而設計的
you are a swelling part. Yet I confess
你在是這身體上隆起的部份;然而,我承認
I meditate with my hands folded on you,
我雙手合攏於你之上,冥想,
a maternal cushion radiating comfort.
這個名為「母親」的坐墊令你舒服 。
Even when I have been at my thinnest,
即使我處於最瘦削的狀態,
you have never abandoned me but curled
你也從來沒有拋棄過我,而是
round as a sleeping cat under my skirt.
像睡著的貓兒一樣,蜷縮著我的裙子下面。
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Marge Piercy 小說推薦
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The Moon is Always Female, Marge Piercy, available at bookdepository
Circles on the Water : Selected Poems of Marge Piercy, available at bookdepository
Sex Wars Marge Piercy, available at bookdepository
Woman on the Edge of Time : The classic feminist dystopian novel, available at bookdepository
Small Changes, available at bookdepository
He, She and It, available at bookdepository
Sleeping with Cats, available at bookdepository
My Life, My Body, available at bookdepository
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