Book of Reincarnation

by Hui-Chih, Hsu

• ISBN13: 9781931243322
• ISBN10: 1931243328
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

Combining Chinese classicism with modern ideas, Buddhist concepts, and metaphors with subjects associated with the Taiwanese claim to their native soil, Hsu is one of the most noted of contemporary Taiwan writers. This book of poetry, his first collection in English, reveals the effectiveness of his work. Hsu Hui-chi was born in Taoyuan, Taiwan in 1966. To date he has published five collections of poetry, among them Sunlight Beehive, A Formosan Clan and Longing for the Ocean. He has won numerous awards and prizes and is chief editor of the Literary Supplement to The Liberty Times in Taiwan.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Introduction	p. 9
As for the Broken Column: On the Death of German Avant-garde Artist Joseph Beuys	p. 15
The Dark Age	p. 17
Out of Print	p. 20
To Betray	p. 21
That Era	p. 22
Flying High	p. 23
My Little Brother's Beach	p. 24
The Staff of Second Granduncle	p. 26
Green Island	p. 28
On the Forsaken Coast	p. 30
The Clouded Leopard in the Moonlight	p. 31
The Unbearable: A Poem to Lin Yi-hsiung	p. 37
A Flea Listens to Buddha's Teaching	p. 39
My Buddha, You Are Merciful: The Confession of Ananda	p. 41
The Air Is Filled With the Excited Cries of Crows	p. 43
The Lost Khata	p. 44
The Song of Transmigration	p. 46
Kuanshihyin, My Bodhisattva	p. 48
The End of a Journey	p. 50
The Winter Journey of a Humpback Whale	p. 51
The Summer Return Journey of a Humpback Whale	p. 53
A Purple Hare	p. 55
That Rat of a Father	p. 56
Falling from the Rooftop: On a Painting by Frida Kahlo	p. 58
I Pray	p. 59
A Winter Trip	p. 60
Travel	p. 62
A Vegetarian Meal: Aung San Suu Kyi Ends Imprisonment	p. 63
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