艾伦得意地对我说:“看,我这件西服五块钱,皮鞋三块,衬衣两块,领带一块,都是二手货,只有我的诗是一手的。”提起艾伦·金斯堡,在美国几乎家喻户晓。这位美国“垮掉的一代”之父,自50年代因朗诵他的长诗《嚎叫》一举成名,成为反主流文化的英雄。我和艾伦是1983年认识的,当时他随美国作家代表团第一次到中国访问。再次见到艾伦是五年以后,我到纽约参加由他组织的中国诗歌节。刚到,艾伦就请我和我妻子邵飞 Allen proudly said to me: “Look, I am five dollars in this suit, three shoes, two shirts, a tie, are second-hand goods, only my poetry is a hand.” Kingsburg, almost a household name in the United States. The father of the United States, the “Beat Generation,” became famous as a hero against counterculture since he recalled his poem “Howling” in the 1950s. I and Allen met in 1983, when he visited China for the first time with a delegation of American writers. After seeing Alan again, five years later, I went to New York to attend the Chinese Poetry Festival organized by him. Arrived, Allen asked me and my wife Shao Fei