Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry

by Edited and translated by Michelle Yeh

• ISBN13: 9780300059472
• ISBN10: 0300059477
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1994-02-23
• Publisher: Yale University Press
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Summary

This book is the first comprehensive anthology in English of modern Chinese poetry. More than three hundred poems written by sixty-five poets from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong are included, many translated into English for the first time.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: From the Margin
Note on the Translation
Dreams and Poetry	p. 1
Flowers in a Vase
Lion - Remembering Zhimo
Longing	p. 2
Sound of the Night
Garden of the Future
Little Poems
Poetry
A Word
Elegy for Mansfield	p. 5
Sayonara (selections)
Build a Wall
Coral
A Chance Encounter
Broken
Thomas Hardy
Second Farewell to Cambridge
On the Mountain
On the Bus
Remorse	p. 13
Colors
Red Beans (selections)
Perhaps (A Dirge)
Confession
The End
Dead Water
Woman Forsaken	p. 17
Thou Mayest Come Naked
Tenderness (selections)
Misfortune
Myriad Stars (selections)	p. 21
Springwater (selection)
Paper Boat - Sent to Mother
Vanity Stand	p. 22
A Pot of Flowers
Little Garden
Snowfield
The Night of December Nineteenth
Street Corner
To Zhilin
Rainscape	p. 25
A Brook
Bury Me
Reply to a Dream
Pawnshop
Happiness
Sonnets in the Italian Style (selection)
Do Not Throw Away	p. 29
Meditation
Sitting in Quietude
Alley in the Rain	p. 31
Out of Sorts
Autumn
Loneliness
I Think
My Memory
With My Maimed Hand
By Xiao Hong's Tomb, an Impromptu
Impromptu
Snake	p. 37
Southern Night
Sonnets (selections)
A Short Verse for S.	p. 41
Homesickness
Gambling Men	p. 44
Snow is Falling on the Land of China
A Young Man's Voyage
Dream of an Old Town	p. 49
Autumn Window
Entering the Dream
Fragment
The Organization of Distances
Loneliness
Migratory Birds
Untitled 4
Train Station
Water Content
Twilight	p. 54
Night
May
Seeds of Poetry	p. 56
Composition
Beyond the Border
Cloud Cottage
Crossing the Bridge of Black Hair
Prophecy	p. 60
Shrine to the Earth God
Sandstorm Days
Autumn
Chengdu, Let Me Wake You Gently
I'd Like to Talk about All Kinds of Pure Things
Clouds
Life	p. 67
Sailing
February
Autumn Afternoon
October Song
Blue Blouse	p. 69
Home in the Evening
City on Fire
A Winter Poem
Your Name
A Scenery Watcher
Blood Type B
Psychoanalysis of Pipe Smoking
Over a Fire	p. 73
The Ruins
Night Visitor	p. 75
To Xingzi
Division
Unknown City
A Discharge	p. 77
Eight Poems
I
Valediction
Self
Encounter at Night	p. 82
After Reading Selige Sehnsucht
Tree
Dagger	p. 85
Winter Solstice
Spring	p. 86
Autumn
Scenery (selections)
Winter	p. 87
Outside the Window
Death in the Stone Chamber (selections)
Songs of Saigon (selections)
Song of Everlasting Regret
Because of the Wind
The Drifter	p. 95
Umbrellas
Years of Poetry
Lunchtime at McDonald's
I Walk through the Season	p. 98
Reverie on a Winter Day
My Dresser Mirror Is an Arch-Backed Cat
Flowers No Longer Fly in Our City
Double Bed	p. 101
Four Stanzas on Homesickness
If a War Is Raging Afar
Folk Song
The Kowloon-Canton Railway
The Alley on Xiamen Street
Homesickness	p. 106
I Am Busy
A Dying Star
Sleepless Night
Young Trees in an Empty Field	p. 108
Lotus Flowers
Xue Tao in the Loquat Lane
Giraffe	p. 111
Fugitive Sky
Fire Extinguisher
A Faraway Lullaby
A Lian
Electric Lock
Salt	p. 116
On the Streets of China
Abyss
Colonel
All Ordinary Song
A Fortress in Ruins	p. 122
Thinking of a Friend at Year's End
Night-Blooming Cereus
Bloody Eclipse - Return to the Eon of the First Creation
Grove Street Cemetery
Last Night	p. 127
The Wanderer
A Thousand Paths, a Thousand Roots - In Memory of My Deceased Parents
This Is beyond My Control
Without End
Wild Geese
The Square
Little Boats	p. 130
On the Sea
Guardian Angel
Winter Curfew
Composition
Snowman
The Story of Wildflowers	p. 133
Song of the Waterclock at Night
Song of the Lake Country - Thinking of Friends in the South
Unmoored Boat	p. 136
Rice Paddy Paths
Minor Enlightenment - Written for a Gambler
Snow-Covered Ground
Non-Modernist Lyricism
Moonrise	p. 141
A Telephone Booth with an Open Door
Resurrection
Bound	p. 142
Envoi
Death
Tears
Beinan Creek
Remembrance
On the Cliff	p. 146
To Time
Let the Wind Recite
Autumn's Test
Lama Reincarnated
Three Etudes: The Snake
The Day after Easter
In Lieu of a Letter
Sonnets of Error	p. 157
Ancient Sword
Beauty and Sorrow
Song	p. 163
An Afternoon at the Cemetery
To Apollinaire
Botanical Garden	p. 167
Mundane World
A Prayer
Poetry's Value
Six Ways of Eating a Watermelon	p. 169
Breaking a Vase by Accident - On Hearing a Friend's Decision to Get a Divorce
What Were You Doing Then? - For A.L. on the Night before His Engagement	p. 173
On the Lake
Bracelet
Dwarfs
An Unfinished Poem	p. 175
Spring	p. 178
Sunflowers in the Sun
One Grows Old Even after Death
Handicraft - After Marina Tsvetayeva	p. 181
In a Fallow Field in the North Is a Plow That Hurts Me
Looking Out from Death
Language Is Made in the Kitchen
They
Memories	p. 184
Dedication
Assembly Line
Goddess Peak
Woman (selections)	p. 187
Evening Tides	p. 189
Parting
Out of Touch
China, I've Lost My Key	p. 192
Snow-White Wall
You Still Don't Have Shoes for Rainy Days
Give It Back to Me	p. 194
Quartet
God's Expressionist Manifesto
All the Salty Knowledge of Tears
Smoke	p. 197
On the Island of Bica
In China
In the Wind
I Have Sung of Love
My Homeland Is a Mysterious Radio Station
Life Is Not Worth Living
Bodhisattva	p. 204
A Candle Fell Asleep in Its Own Flame
A Book for Babe (selections)
Yelu Apoki
Aesthetics
Love Poem
In Memoriam - Dedicated to My Father	p. 210
Taxis Always Come at Moments of Despair
Impressions (selection)	p. 213
Holiday, Lakeside, Reverie
Half of Me Is Aching
By the Ba River	p. 215
Autumn Verse
Blue Fantasia	p. 217
Dunhuang (selection)
The Street outside My Window
Feeling	p. 220
The Square of a Twelve-Year-Old
The End
Accomplice
Narrative
Expected Misfortune
Archeology	p. 223
Crime of Passion
Common Knowledge
Jiang Yuan
Making Sentences
A Can of Fish
Heavy Metal
Ventriloquy
Bristle Grass	p. 229
Choice
Granary Memories
Descendants of Myths
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