西班牙著名诗人、诺贝尔文学奖提名者
杰曼·卓根布鲁特
（Germain Droogenbroodt）先生
Dear audience, dear Chinese friends,
In 2009, invited at the Qinghai International poetry festival I mentioned in my speech “Poetry, redressing the unbalanced”, that a good poem can offer wisdom and knowledge, it can escape from chaos and emptiness, it can give voice to the deepest of human feelings, it can give sense to a life or solace when a beloved life has gone.
A good poem can be a vehicle of culture, of meditation about the self and the world. Unfortunately, the majority of contemporary poetry appears to be fragmented, afloat and in search of itself. One could blame it on the absence of former strict poetic styles which forced the poet to think and to use all his linguistic skills - skills he doesn’t need in free verse. But a great number of famous poets, especially in the first half of the former century proved that excellent poetry does not need the corsage of a sonnet or any other determinant poetic form although one neither should forget the words of the wises poets and philosophers of the past. Not only the Greek, the Romans and the Chinese respected and honoured poets and philosophers, also the Germans –Dichterund Denker– put their poets and philosophers on the same high level which nowadays have been replaced by soccer players, extravagant movie stars and the glitter of fake gold.
Many years ago, invited as guest poet at an international poetry congress in Korea with late Alan Ginsberg, the famous Russian poet Voznesenski and the Chinese poet BeiDao (whose English was quite poor at that time, so I read his paper for him), the Korean Minister of Culture compared in his inauguration speech poetry with a firefly and pretended that poetry, fragile and small, but giving so much light, should be protectedlike precious old buildings, the way UNESCO does: it should be classified as a World Heritage. Poetry is a bridge, a precious link not only to the past, but also to the future. Oscar Wilde criticized that nowadays the people know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. Greed and egoism have replaced the ancient values, especially in the so-called New World.
It is therefore that ten years ago I started the project Poem of the Week, a poetic, human bridge. Modern, international poetry,translated and published every week in more than 20 languages. Having met last year at the Shanghai International Poetry Festival, Anna Keiko, president and founder of Huifeng, I proposed to promote with Huifeng in Chinese this internationallygreatly appreciated project.
I therefore wish to express my great gratitude to all members of Huifeng for sharing and promoting this humanitarian project so that also in China, cradle of the world’s greatest philosophers and poets, the light of poetry, that small firefly, may offer wisdom and humanity.
Germain Droogenbroodt
尊敬的各位与会嘉宾，亲爱的中国文朋诗友：你们好！
我曾于2009年应中国青海国际诗歌节之邀，作了题为《诗歌，矫正失衡之术》的演讲，其中指出，一首好诗可以启人心智，摆脱烦扰和空虚，更可以深度抒发人类的情感。当最珍爱的生命消逝，优秀的诗歌可以重现生命之意义，使生者聊以慰藉。
好诗堪称文化的媒介，更是人们自我冥想和思考世界的最佳手段。但令人遗憾的是，大多数当代诗歌似乎都呈碎片状，充斥虚辞浮语，唯以探寻自我为目的。也许你会将之归咎于现代诗人缺乏昔日诗人严谨的诗歌风格——那种促使诗人深入思考、穷尽语言技能、在自由诗中极为罕见的诗歌风气。然而，历史上的许多大诗人，尤其是上世纪上半叶的大诗人业已证实，优秀的诗歌不再需要以十四行诗或其他主导性诗歌形式作为其标志，尽管他们深受伟大诗哲们箴言慧语的影响。除了希腊、罗马和中国的著名诗人和哲学家将历史上的鸿儒智贤置于神圣的地位，德国的著名诗人和思想家也无不如此。而如今，那些令人无比崇敬、无比膜拜的大诗人和大哲学家已被腰缠万贯的足球运动员、身价不菲的电影明星及冒牌金尊们甩出几条街。
多年前，我曾受邀与当时健在的艾伦·金斯伯格、俄罗斯著名诗人沃兹森斯基和中国著名诗人北岛一同出席在韩国举行的国际诗歌大会。韩国文化大臣曾在其就职演说中把诗歌喻为“荧火虫”，欲假联合国教科文组织的名义，将微小、脆弱而不停发光的诗歌列为世界文化遗产，像对待珍贵的古建筑一样给予特别保护。诗歌是一座联通历史与未来的金桥。奥斯卡·王尔德曾批评指出，当代人只关注事物的价格，却对其价值一无所知。贪婪性和利己主义已取代古老的价值观，在所谓的新世界尤其如此。
鉴于此，我十年前启动了“每周诗歌”项目，该项目堪称一座充满诗歌底蕴和人文精神的桥梁，每周以20余种语言翻译和出版当代优秀的国际诗歌。去年，我有幸在上海国际诗歌节上与上海惠风文学社总裁兼创始人安娜·惠子小姐谋面，遂提议与惠风联手打造中文版的国际诗歌推广品牌。
在过去的一年里，惠风人一直致力于分享和推进这一人道主义国际诗歌项目，本人在此深表谢诚！我深信，在中国这一培育世界一流哲学家和诗人的摇篮里，诗歌之“萤火”一定能点亮更多智慧之光，闪耀更多人性之美。
杰曼·卓根布鲁特谨笔
译者简介：
桂清扬，浙江外国语学院英文学院教授，香港岭南大翻译学哲学博士，国家教育部公派英国诺丁汉大学访问学者。浙江省作家协会外国文学委员会委员，香港国际创意学会秘书长。有作品入选《中国当代散文精选》、《2018世界诗选》等。获首届“左龙右虎杯”国际诗歌大赛荣誉诗人金奖。应邀为叶君健全译本《安徒生童话》珍藏版撰写“名家导读”，为原中国作家协会副主席黄亚洲诗集《狂风》作1.6万字长序。
