评判评语

陈志锐在诗集《长夏之诗》中，成功地建立其诗学本土性。《追寻童年的 Sadvijnana：诗六首》经由梵文Sadvijana，即六识——眼识、耳识、鼻识、舌识、身识、意识，来书写他的狮城记忆。这首组诗，连同其他诗作如《岁末返归南侨母校金炎路旧校舍惊觉原来如此》，都是以狮城作为书写坐标而创作的。陈志锐正是以这种文学创作方式，来回应这块他生于斯长于斯的土地和童年记忆。

写诗是一种艺术创作，既然如此，诗人就免不了需要有创新的勇气；《写作是一场伟大的冒险与就义》，写出了写作者心中的炽热与滚烫，特别是组诗之六《携带信念》：“写作就是零下的一把火/温着历史缝中的希望/即使在北地激荡往复的狼嚎回音中/即使未来可能的终于还很远/即使人类已经如狼豹，仍相信/史前的第一把火/有过的热”。诗人在刻意营造的长短句中，在抑扬顿挫的字义锻铸中，展现了一以贯之的学者风范。

Judges' Comments

In Poems from the Eternal Summer, Tan successfully established his poetic localism. In “The Chasing of Childhood: Sadvi jnana”, a group of six poems, he uses the Sanskrit word “Sadvi jnana”, which means the six senses of eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind to write about his memories of Singapore. This group of poems, along with others such as “A Sudden Realisation from a Year-end Visit to the Kim Yan Road Old Campus of my Alma Mater Nan Chiau” are all set in Singapore. In this way, Tan responds as a literary creator to the land where he was born and raised, and his childhood memories.

Poetry writing is a kind of artistic creation, so poets inevitably need the courage to innovate. In “Writing is a Great Adventure and Sacrifice”, the passion and fire in Tan’s heart are clearly expressed, especially in the sixth poem of the series, “With Faith”: Writing is a fire below zero/warming the hopes in the cracks of history/even amidst echoes of wolf howls in the North/even if the possible future finality is still far away/even if humans are like wolves and leopards, we still believe/in the lingering warmth/of the first fire in prehistory. By deliberately varying the length of the lines in his poems and forging rhythmic phrases of meaning, Tan showcases his consistent scholarly style.