Calendar
In the blue chair of the green studio
Another year has passed, or so they say, but the calendar often lies.
They're a bit like cosmic business machines
Like their cousin clock, it breaks down when it's not right.
50 years ago, I learned to jump out of the calendar
But it keeps being pulled back because of greed and immortal stupidity.
Later, I escaped those deadly blocks
And those sharper and longer numbers.
I had to become the flowing water I was already
The reason for returning to the human state is this
Don't frighten my kids, grandchildren, dogs and friends.
Our old cat didn't care. It licked the water where my face was.
Poetry is life, welcome to the "Caotang Reading Poetry" jointly launched by Cover News, Chengdu Radio and Television Station and Caotang Poetry Magazine, I am the reader juanzi. What you just heard was Jim Harrison's poem "Calendar", which translates to Wilderness. Jim Harrison is an American poet, novelist and film and television script writer. He published nearly 40 works during his lifetime, including novels, poems, and essays, the most famous of which was The Legend of Autumn, or Burning Love Years, which was adapted into a film, and the classic film Dance with Wolves, which was also adapted from Harrison's novel Revenge.
Today we come together to share the story of Jim Harrison.
Jim Harrison was born on December 11, 1937, on a farm in Grayling, Michigan. When he was 7 years old, a girl from a neighbor's family hit Harrison in the face with a bottle, blinding him in his left eye. In 1956, Harrison graduated from high school, but the tragic fate did not leave the young man. At the age of 21, Harrison's father and sister Judy died in a car accident. None of this affected Harrison's uninhibited, adventurous personality, and he hitchhiked all the way from his hometown of Michigan to California just to see the Pacific Ocean. He has always loved hunting, fishing, hiking and food, and his works are mostly set in the American wilderness, and he is known as a "tough guy" writer, and his status in the American literary world is comparable to that of Hemingway and Faulkner.
Although he had been systematically trained in comparative literature, and even obtained a doctorate in comparative literature and had appeared on the university literature podium, Harrison began to create by chance. Jim Harrison's first creation began in 1966, and in his words, falling off a cliff set him on the path of writing: he had to recuperate at home because he accidentally tumbled off a cliff while hunting birds. His friend, novelist Thomas McGuarn, suggested he could try writing something, and Harrison began two decades of semi-obscure poetry and fiction, after which he also received a call from Hollywood and became a screenwriter.
Before becoming a novelist, Harrison recognized himself as a poet, feeling that "poetry is a wonderful call to words." "Good poetry is not only fascinating but also mysterious." "A good poet can stab you in the neck". After starting his literary career with poetry, Harrison regarded creation as the call of life, and used words to create a habitat for his soul.
Poetry is life, "grass hall reading poetry", there is temperature, there is texture. Jim Harrison's poem "Calendar" and the poet's story are here today, thanks for the attention, we will see you in the next issue.
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