給孩子的詩

by Bei Dao, 北島

為激發孩子們潛在的詩意，北島精心挑選101首中外名詩。除中文外，涉及阿拉伯語、希伯來語、丹麥語等近二十個外文語種，使中文世界的孩子得以跨越語言的邊界，獲得多元的精神養料、開拓世界文化的廣闊視野。作為開放性的經典詩歌選本，因編者的眼光與熱忱，品質的突出和優異，勢必在漢語世界產生廣泛、持久而巨大的影響。「讓孩子天生的直覺和悟性，開啓詩歌之門，越年輕越好……對於命運中的幸運而言，詩歌正如點燃火炬──某種意義上，詩歌之光照亮突然醒來的人。」

Genres: Poetry, China

172 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2014

About the author

Name in Chinese: 北岛

Bei Dao ("Northern Island") is another name for Zhifu Island.
Bei Dao literally "Northern Island", born August 2, 1949) is the pen name of Chinese poet Zhao Zhenkai. He was born in Beijing. He chose the pen name because he came from the north and because of his preference for solitude. Bei Dao is the most notable representative of the Misty Poets, a group of Chinese poets who reacted against the restrictions of the Cultural Revolution.

As a teenager, Bei Dao was a member of the Red Guards, the enthusiastic followers of Mao Zedong who enforced the dictates of the Cultural Revolution, often through violent means. He had misgivings about the Revolution and was "re-educated" as a construction worker, from 1969 to 1980.[5] Bei Dao and Mang Ke founded the magazine Jintian[6] (Today), the central publication of the Misty Poets, which was published from 1978 until 1980, when it was banned. The work of the Misty Poets and Bei Dao in particular were an inspiration to pro-democracy movements in China. Most notable was his poem "Huida" ("The Answer") which was written during the 1976 Tiananmen demonstrations in which he participated. The poem was taken up as a defiant anthem of the pro-democracy movement and appeared on posters during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. During the 1989 protests and subsequent shootings, Bei Dao was at a literary conference in Berlin and was not allowed to return to China until 2006. (Three other leading Misty Poets — Gu Cheng, Duo Duo, and Yang Lian — were also exiled.) His then wife, Shao Fei, and their daughter were not allowed to leave China to join him for another six years.

Since 1987, Bei Dao has lived and taught in England, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, and the United States. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages, including five poetry volumes in English[7] along with the story collection Waves (1990) and the essay collections Blue House (2000) and Midnight's Gate (2005). Bei Dao continued his work in exile. His work has been included in anthologies such as The Red Azalea: Chinese Poetry Since the Cultural Revolution (1990)[8] and Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese poetry.[9]

Bei Dao has won numerous awards, including the Tucholsky Prize from Swedish PEN, International Poetry Argana Award from the House of Poetry in Morocco and the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. He is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Jintian was resurrected in Stockholm in 1990 as a forum for expatriate Chinese writers. He has taught and lectured at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Beloit College, Wisconsin, and is Professor of Humanities in the Center for East Asian Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Reviews

[Hqweay · Rating 5 out of 5]

如果他是个孩子，就让他活得像个孩子 不要让他聪明的，失去了最初的样子。

[Wenjing Fan · Rating 4 out of 5]

非常好阅读的诗选，选取的基本也都是名家的名篇。关于亲情友情爱情，关于理想人生信仰，关于童真创意温润。让人觉得诗歌的门槛没有那么高，而我们的孩子，也的确可以试着看一看。那么诗歌可以写得那么好看而美好，为什么那么多诗人要装呢？ //早年讀的，2024給男作者改打低分

[Tangerine · Rating 5 out of 5]

诗歌本身还是很棒的，选集也很好，能带出孩子气和这个世界的美好，只不过考试围绕着这本书，喜欢不起来。