梁志英教授《夢塵》詩集分享 – 一場心靈與文化的饗宴
Join us for a Sunday Afternoon Poetry reading, commentary and discussion on
5/22/2011 from 2 pm to 4 pm @ The Buddhist Association of the US – Woo Ju Library
Poetry is the song of spiritual experience, a means to communicate insight into the contact of awakening.
Renowned poet & professor Russell Leong, who was featured as one of the 50 U.S. poets on the PBS series “The United States of Poetry“ in 2008, is kindly accepted our invitation to read from his book ‘The Country of Dreams and Dust” (诗集《梦尘》)(West End Press).
This work received the PEN Josephine Miles Literature award.
“Country” is about many countries, including China, Vietnam, and the U.S.
“Dreams” is about the expectations and desires of migrants, and
“Dust” is the social and spiritual realities of life in the new land.
The characters in his poetry and short stories are ancestors, parents, slaves, the rejected, and the betrayed within both Asian and American societies and their search for inner truth and peace.
Russell Leong believes that the power of social transformation can be found in the people at the margins of society, and that Buddhism can transform our nature if we let go and have an open mind.
Date: Sunday, May 22nd
Time: 2PM to 4PM
Place: Woo Ju Memorial Library
Russell Leong (梁志英)
Featured with 50 U.S. poets on the PBS series “The United States of Poetry“ in 2008, for 30 years, Leong was the chief editor of Amerasia Journal, published by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, and an adjunct professor English and Asian American Studies at UCLA. Amerasia is the foremost scholarly journal on the history and culture of Asians in America. He is now the visiting Dr. Thomas Tam professor at CUNY Hunter College.
He studied sociology in the U.S.,at San Francisco State College, comparative literature at National Taiwan University, and film at UCLA, where he obtained his Master of Fine Arts in Film and Directing. He is the author of “Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories” (University of Washington Press, Washington), winner of the American Book award, and edited “Asian American Sexualities” (Routledge Press, London), and the editor of “War and Peace” Asian Americans after 9/11(UCLA), and many other volumes.
Leong also wrote many essays and poems for “Tricycle: The Buddhist Review” (New York) and his work has been translated in Taipei, Nanjing, and Shanghai.
Russell Leong was born in San Francisco Chinatown in 1950.
梁志英(Russell Leong)：著名華裔美國詩人、批評家和小說家。他的詩集《夢塵》（1993）獲約瑟芬·邁爾斯文學獎（1994）。他的短篇小說集《鳳眼及其它故事》（2000）被《洛杉磯時報》選為2000年最佳百大小說之一，獲2001年美國圖書獎，並被翻譯成中文在台灣出版。自1977 至2010年，他於洛杉磯加州大學(UCLA)擔任亞美研究中心《亞美雜誌》主編並兼任英文系教授。 2008年美國公共電視台(PBS) 列為具代表性的美國五十位詩人之一。現授課於紐約。
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