「那不是迴力鏢，而是一束金屬捆綁線，這就是在養牛田裡，有時候我們用來相互表達關愛的方式。」
《迴力鏢》（Boomerang）是一本中英文對照詩選，內含譯者詳盡的評述和七十首選自詩人教授柯瑞．布朗（Cory Brown）的五本英文詩集，以及新近尚未結集的詩稿，提供國內外讀者一個雙語並置的閱讀櫥窗。詩人評論家竇兒惕（Edward A. Dougherty）說：「布朗用形式這個籠子來關鎖內容這頭動物，創造詩的張力來表達日常或嚴肅的題材，是美國詩壇少有的成就。」
布朗熟稔並善用各類詩體。面對嚴肅題材，他不忌援用古典十四行體，仿但丁《神曲》的〈地獄〉、〈煉獄〉、〈天堂〉三階段結構，創作了新冠疫情年代的詩章《漫長的向上慢爬：新冠病毒年》（A Long Slow Climb: The Year of COVID），謂唯有「愛」才是人類面對自然逆境和生死時的處方。至於日常生活主題，他適情採用「即席率性」章法、後現代的「漫遊和講話」風格和「一視野，多焦點」的敘述，搭配美式俳句與散文的形式，以揶揄或批判的口吻，呈現知性的觀察與人文的關懷，並以「反芻過程」的方法來挖掘記憶礦脈。
布朗教授曾任紐約綺色佳學院（Ithaca College）寫作系主任，與詩人亞蒙斯（Archie Ammons）、摩根（Robert Morgan）及詩壇祭酒艾敘伯里（John Ashbery）時相過從。1988年布朗以詩集《一道暖流》（A Warm Trend）獲 Swallow’s Tale Poetry Award，2025年以《我母親的雙手》（My Mother’s Hands）入選 Finishing Line Press 詩歌賽，前後近四十年創作不懈，見證了他詩藝精湛的持續與詩思深入的細微。
“It is not a boomerang but a bundle of baling wire and it’s how we send our love to one another sometimes in the field.”
This collection represents over forty years of Cory Brown’s poetry, in a bilingual edition translated by Taiwanese poet Ruey-shan Sandy Chen. Brown has previously published five books of poetry, with over a hundred poems appearing in US literary journals. Chen also provides an introduction analyzing Brown’s composition method which gives extemporaneity its due, so to speak, in writing poems. He inherited this method from A.R. Ammons, his mentor at Cornell University. The introduction also analyzes the influence another Cornell mentor, Robert Morgan, has had in Brown’s use of concrete images to provide rich detail in the telling of narratives. Other equally important influences on Brown include the discursive postmodern style of the American poet John Ashbery, and his own study of Taoism and Buddhism. It’s apparent that the Chinese literary tradition, as Chen explains, has been significant for Brown, expanding his vision of human thought and feeling, “saving me,” as Brown has written, “from the strict confines of Western ideology.” This collection will be of interest to both American and Chinese poetry readers, as well as to those interested in the process by which poets harness and express their creativity.
