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Hsia Yü (Xia Yu)

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Fusion Kitsch

When did it all begin
This bucolic and pan-incestuous atmosphere
Was it not always there in the selfsame family album
Lovers fallen to the status of kin
Animals fallen to the condition of lovers
Nor let us forget the repressive inclinations
In the animistic discourse to which
All romances arrive in the end

© Translation: 2001, Steve Bradbury
From: Fusion Kitsch: Poems from the Chinese of Hsia Yü
Publisher: Zephyr Press, Brookline, Massachusetts, 2001

FUSION KITSCH

wanneer is het allemaal begonnen
deze pastorale algeheel incestueuze atmosfeer
minnaars ontaard in familieleden
allang in hetzelfde familiealbum opgenomen
dieren ontaard in minnaars
en dan nog die verstikkende neigingen in
het animistische vertoog
die alle liefdesaffaires uiteindelijk wachten

© Vertaling: 2000, Silvia Marijnissen

FUSION KITCH

什麼時候開始的
這牧歌式的泛亂倫氣氛
那早就屬於同一本家庭相本的
已經淪落為親人的愛人們
那些淪落為愛人的動物們
還有所有羅曼史最終到達
之萬物有靈論述
裡的壓抑傾向

© 2000, Hsia Yü

Hsia Yü (Xia Yu)

Hsia Yü (Xia Yu)

Hsia Yü studied film and drama at the National Taiwan Academy of the Arts. Besides poetry she writes essays, lyrics and stage plays. After living for many years in France, she now divides her time between Paris and Taipei. Since she published her first poems in the early 1980s, Hsia Yü’s reputation has steadily grown; she is now considered to be one of Taiwan’s most original poets.

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Fusion Kitsch

When did it all begin
This bucolic and pan-incestuous atmosphere
Was it not always there in the selfsame family album
Lovers fallen to the status of kin
Animals fallen to the condition of lovers
Nor let us forget the repressive inclinations
In the animistic discourse to which
All romances arrive in the end

© 2001, Steve Bradbury
From: Fusion Kitsch: Poems from the Chinese of Hsia Yü
Publisher: 2001, Zephyr Press, Brookline, Massachusetts

Fusion Kitsch

When did it all begin
This bucolic and pan-incestuous atmosphere
Was it not always there in the selfsame family album
Lovers fallen to the status of kin
Animals fallen to the condition of lovers
Nor let us forget the repressive inclinations
In the animistic discourse to which
All romances arrive in the end

© 2001, Steve Bradbury
From: Fusion Kitsch: Poems from the Chinese of Hsia Yü
Publisher: 2001, Zephyr Press, Brookline, Massachusetts

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