去年九月的一天里,我们在北京外语学院听了诗人迈克尔·布朗(Michael D.Browne)关于当代美国诗歌的一次讲演。 布朗身上有两个有意思的结合:他生在英国,受过牛津大学的教育,说话时还有英国口音;然而已经多年在美国生活和工作,变成了一个美国诗人。 One day in September last year, we heard a poem by Michael D. Browne at the Beijing Foreign Studies University on contemporary American poetry. There were two interesting combinations of Brown: he was born in England, educated at Oxford, and spoke English as an English accent; yet he had lived and worked in the United States for many years and became an American poet.