近日,由维多利亚大学的Institute of Modern Letters(IIML)举办的全国中学生诗歌比赛落下帷幕。Auckland International College的亚裔学生Grace Lee凭借自己的大作摘得了桂冠。
比赛中,年仅16岁的Grace Lee的作品《Eileithyia(厄勒提亚)》在入围的10篇作品中脱颖而出,获得了National Schools Poetry Award(全国中学生诗歌奖)。
比赛评委Cliff Fell表示,“我被这首诗中的热情和其丰富的想象力所吸引。诗歌采用了希腊生育女神Eileithyia的名字作为题目,Grace站在一个当代年轻女孩的视角对古时的生育和分娩进行了描述和想象。”
Grace Lee表示,“写诗是一种很好的表达自我的方式,我从神话和历史中获得了灵感创作出了这首诗。对我来说,诗歌是一种很好的媒介。写诗可以加深我对女性的理解;同时也能让我明白女性这一概念是如何在历史长河中变化的”。
Lee表示,看到别人读自己的作品是件让人害怕的事情;但是同时她又很想知道人们读完后是怎样的一种心情。
Grace获得了$500纽币的现金以及500纽币的购书款。而她的作品也将会被张贴至全国各地供人们阅读。
Grace Lee将会在今年完成自己的高中学业,目前正考虑将英语作为自己进入大学后的专业。
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Eileithyia
Her belly is effervescent-
explosive with life bursting forth,
the buttons on her blouse hanging on
by straining threads.
Dewy green fields run on for miles in her womb;
blood-roses bloom from veins, cords,
saltwater, and steam with life.
Passion breathes hotly into the greenhouse
and it grows - it grows.
She‘s a furnace. Snow melts at her feet,
the buried daisies stir,
stand close to her and feel the heat radiating
from the fire of her goddess-stomach.
Her swollen feet blossom from an old earth.
They sing to her, the stones,
to the serpents twining,
to the moon-rabbits kicking in the meadows,
and she glows.
She cruises by, a juggernaut,
parting the seas
her hips sway to the ghost of hymns
sung on the banks of the Euphrates.
She carries a dynasty with her;
her skin strains over a family -
three hearts, six kidneys.
Spring draws near, and the first cries with it.