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9780231118460

Frontier Taiwan

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  • ISBN13:

    9780231118460

  • ISBN10:

    0231118465

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-04-01
  • Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

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Summary

Taiwan has evolved dramatically from a little-known island to an internationally acclaimed economic miracle and thriving democracy. The history of modern Taiwanese poetry parallels and tells the story of this transformation from periphery to frontier. Containing translations of nearly 400 poems from 50 poets spanning the entire twentieth century, this anthology reveals Taiwan in a broad spectrum of themes, forms, and styles: from lyrical meditation to political satire, haiku to concrete poetry, surrealism to postmodernism. The in-depth introduction outlines the development of modern poetry in the unique historical and cultural context of Taiwan. Comprehensive in both depth and scope, Frontier Taiwan beautifully captures the achievements of the nation's modern poetic traditions.

Author Biography

Michelle Yeh is professor of Chinese at the University of California, Davis N. G. D. Malmqvist is professor emeritus at Stockholm University and is a member of the Swedish Academy

Table of Contents

Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Note on Translation xvii
Map of Taiwan
xx
Frontier Taiwan: An Introduction 1(54)
Yang Hua (1906--36)
55(4)
Black Tide (seven selections)
Heartstrings (two selections)
Tawny Cottages
Sad Song of the Female Worker
Yang Chichang (1908--94)
59(7)
Rouge and Lips
The Nun
Burning Cheeks
Veins and Butterflies
Autumn Sea
Travelogue
Pale Song
Ruined City
Love Song
Sea of Flowers
Qin Zihao (1912--63)
66(6)
Desert Wind
Remembering
Seashells (I)
Gallery
Black Narcissus
Hair
Seashells (II)
Ji Xian (1913-- )
72(11)
City in Flames
To the Maybe Man
Song of Time No. 2
My Pagoda-Shaped Plan
Star-Plucking Youth
Dog Howling at the Moon
Seven and Six
Composition in a Window
My Voice and My Existence
Painter's Studio
Wine Drinker
Psychoanalysis of Pipe Smoking
Unfinished Masterpiece
Death of Aphrodite
Type-B Blood
Before Completion. One
Bird Variations
Chen Xiuxi (1921--91)
83(4)
Grave Sweeping This Year
Love
Taiwan
My Pen
Maybe It's the Weight of a Poem
Zhan Bing (1921-- )
87(5)
Affair
May
Planting Rice Sprouts
Liquid Morning
Seven-Colored Time
Liquid Flows into the Cup of the Heart
Zhou Mengdie (1921-- )
92(11)
Caltrops
Diary of a Believer
Mendicant
Prisoner
Nine Lines
On the Ferry
Twelfth Month
Sixth Month
Mountain
Polydactylism
Huan Fu (1922-- )
103(7)
Walking in the Rain
Forest
Carrier Pigeon
Wild Deer
Excuse My Rudeness
Find in Honorific for Mosquitos
Shadow
Incident
Lin Hengtai (1924-- )
110(6)
Philosopher
Books
Landscape No. 1
Landscape No. 2
Traces (1--8)
Du Pan Fangge (1927-- )
116(3)
Rebirth
Paper People
Beyond the Mulberry Tree
Under the Pomelo Tree
Womb
Luo Fu (1928-- )
119(16)
Chimney
Death of a Stone Cell (four selections)
Beyond the Fog
Fish
Gold Dragon Temple
The Wound of Time
Sharing a Drink with Li He
Because of the Wind
The Cricket's Song
Metaphysical Game
Mailing a Pair of Shoes
Beijing Sycamores
Funeral for a Poem
I Buy an Umbrella Just to Lose it
Silent Pumpkin
Luo Men (1928-- )
135(9)
The Four Strings of the Violin
Shrapnel---Tron's Missing Leg
Window
A Wild Horse
Where Light Lives
Running Away
The Old Man Selling Flower Pots
The City---Square Existence
Umbrella
Years of Poetry
Readjustment of Twentieth-Century Space for Existence
Who could Purchase the Horizon?
Rongzi (1928-- )
144(5)
To Morning
No More Blossoms Fly in Our City
A Green Lotus
Umbrella
When All Living Creatures Go By
The Insect World
Xiang Ming (1928-- )
149(5)
Dawn at Prosperity Corner
Tumor
Ivy
The Setting Sun on Manila Bay
Possible
Rolling a Steel Hoop
Yu Guangzhong (1928-- )
154(10)
When I am Dead
The Double Bed
Green Bristlegrass
If a War is Raging Afar
Nostalgia
When Night Falls
The Crystal Prison
A Tale on the Hill
Evening
The Spiderwebs
The Pearl Necklace
What is the Rain Saying Through the Night?
The Langlois Bridge
Guan Guan (1929-- )
164(7)
Cousin Rat
The Ravenous Prince
Long Street
Talking About the ``Emperor Qianlong Tripitaka, Carved on Knot-Free Unblemished Slow-Curred Blocks from Prime Pear Trees Felled in Winter''
Shang Qin (1930-- )
171(15)
The Anthill
The Ladder
The Maple Tree
The Gloves
A Faun's Afternoon
Giraffe
Overdrawn Footprints
Pigeons
The Dog
The Mosquito
Electric Lock Moonlight
The Cat Who Walks Through the Wall
Snow
Rooster
Railroad Crossing
Zhang Mo (1931-- )
186(4)
A Song with No Melody
I am a Glass of Unlimited Volume
Ode to a Shabby Room
Shake the Head, Wag the Tail: A Seven-stories Pagoda
The Future: Four Versions
Ya Xian (1932-- )
190(21)
Umbrella
Shrine of the Village God
Funeral Parlor
The Mountain God
Babylon
Spring Day
The Buckwheat Field
Ship Rats
The Beggar
Red Corn
Salt
Florence
The Monastery
Abyss
The Catholic Nun
The Colonel
Diva
Andante cantabile
Courtyard
Song of the Ordinary
Resurrection Day
Xin Yu (1933-- )
211(6)
The Song of the Soil
The Zanzibar Lion
A Leopard
Seen at the Shunxing Teahouse
The Speech of Stones
Zheng Chouyu (1933-- )
217(8)
Life in the Mountains
Mistake
In Dreamland
Watery Lane
Buddhist Chant
Skylight
Stopping at a Minor Station
Still Life
Morning
Afternoon
Pure Clarity
Border Inn
The Temple Bull
Guests of Snow
Bai Qui (1937-- )
225(6)
Armchair
Sky
Cry
Weight
Geese
Canary
Vine
The Square
Silent Gecko
Ye Weilian (1937-- )
231(8)
Fugue
Pastiches from Taiwan Countryside (four selections)
Quest
Traveling in Spring
Lin Ling (1938-- )
239(6)
After the Show is Over
The Man Who Knocked at the Outpost
Nonmodernist Lyricism
For Lin Ling
Two or Three Home Repairs in Spring
Xiong Hong (1940-- )
245(5)
Thinking with Fire
Dark Associations
I'm Already on My Way to You
Jar
Ripples
Life
Yang Mu (1940-- )
250(29)
News
Footsteps
Flowing River
In the Midnight Cornfield
Screen
The Second Renunciation
Floating Firefiles
Etudes: The Twelve Earthly Branches
Let the Wind Recite
Zeelandia
Solitude
Forbidden Game (1--4)
Someone Asks Me About Justice and Righteousness
Frost at Midnight
For No Reason
The Traveler's Heart: A Variation
The Proposition of Time
A Tale
Solitude, 1910
Zhang Cuo (1943-- )
279(6)
Autumn Reminiscence
The Distance of Winter
Words of a Goose Catcher
In Imitation of the Ancients
The Secret Garden
Wu Sheng (1994-- )
285(7)
Rice Straw
Rainy Season
Preface to Vignettes of My Village
The Land
Animal Spirit Tablet
In the Woods of a Foreign Country
I won't Discuss it with You
The Worst Thing about Writing Poetry
Li Minyong (1947-- )
292(6)
Memento of the Deceased
Prisoner of War
Aspiration of Poetry
Tilting Island
Death Report
Reading Poems on a Late-Night Airliner
Luo Qing (1948-- )
298(12)
The Invisible Man
Heaven's Revenge
The Avenging Ghost
Once More Looking out at the Deep Blue Sea After Looking out at the Deep Blue Sea Many Times Before
Cordoba
I Refuse
Please Just Wink
Quatrain
Su Shaolian (1949-- )
310(6)
Beast
Peeling a Pear
Photocopier
Mixed Blood
Shadow Burial
Sleep Deeply, Shore
That Horse Like Moonlight
Jian Zhengzhen (1950-- )
316(5)
Secret
On the Great Wall
Memory
Reading a Letter
Bai Ling (1951-- )
321(4)
Childhood Years, Part I: The 1940s
Spring's Brief Visit to Taipei
Lip Rouge
Kite
Ling Yu (1952-- )
325(11)
Since You Can't Advance You Can't Retreat Either
Names Vanished from the Map (five selections)
The Family of Acrobats
Freeze-Frame in the Midst of War (two selections)
Chen Yizhi (1953-- )
336(8)
Taiwan Rains
Broken-down Family Tree
Thinking, Worrying (I)
Whale
An Alzheimer's Kind of Love
Entombed Warrior
Du Ye (1953-- )
344(6)
Frog
Snowfield
Vermilion Cabinet
A Wish
Universal Love, Not War
Li Bai
The Tilapia in the Sky
Chen Li (1954-- )
350(19)
The Lover of the Magician's Wife
The Love Song of Buffet the Clown
In a City Alarmed by a Series of Earthquakes
Listening to Winterreise on a Spring Night
The River of Shadows
The Edge of the Island
Microcosmos (ten selections)
Autumn Song
The War Symphony
Formosa, 1661
Dialogue
Butterfly Air
Tunnel
On the Island
Composition
Yang Ze (1954-- )
369(9)
Fugue of Violence and Music
Under a Scorching Sun, a Stifling Noon, I Stared
This is the Spring of Cynicism
Rainy Day --- Women #12 & 35
Clear Day --- Women #12 & 35
outside is the snow
Nightly Homecoming
Life is Not Worth Living
Let Me Be Your DJ
Luo Zhicheng (1955-- )
378(7)
Father
Darling Letters (five selections)
The Wolf
The Great Rains of ' 93
The Bookstore of My Dreams
Xiang Yang (1955-- )
385(9)
Train Station
My Cares
Seed
Autumn Words
Nine to Five
Uniform
Lesser Fullness of Grain
Great Heat
Walking of Insects
Hoarfrost
Lesser Snow
Great Cold
Jiao Tong (1956-- )
394(5)
The Story of her Life
Out of Work
The Demon Platoon Leader
Reading at Night
Martial Law
Eraser
The Frequency I Infringe Upon
Xia Yu (1956-- )
399(21)
Sweet Revenge
Hibernation
Bronze
Poet's Day
Picnic
The Simple Future Tense
The Hidden Queen and Her Invisible City
Parable
Children (1, 2)
Yarmidiso Language Family
Excuse
Afternoon Tea
Memory
Ode on a Thing
Fauves
Mozart in E-Flat Major
Ensemble Against the Wind
Dancing with My Back to You
Spring Evening
The Mercury That We Raised so Carefully
Reading
Postcard
A Difficult Moral Question
Friction. Indescribable
The Ripest Rankest Juiciest Summer Ever
Written for Others
Playerless Piano
Lin Yu (1957-- )
420(7)
My Dream is Taking a Trip
Spring Sings in My Veins
Name Cards
Numbers
Mr. D
The Idiot
Chair
A Bachelor's Diary
Liu Kexiang (1957-- )
427(8)
The Lower Reaches
Posthumous Sons
Young Revolutionaries
Hope
Tropical Rain Forest
Going Home
The Street Performer
Delta in The Ocean
Showa Grass
The Central Range of Little Bear Pinocha
Sun Weimin (1959-- )
435(6)
Delirious
Spring 1985
The Encounter
Dream
Transfer
Going to Work
Leaving Work
Motorcycle
Chen Kehua (1961-- )
441(11)
Clown Spirit
This Life
No Children are Born in This Instant
Ballpoint Pen
Bathroom
On TV After Dinner
Message Board at a Train Station
Butterfly Dream
Sodomy's Necessity
Still
Walis Nokan (1961-- )
452(8)
Back to the Tribe!
Atayal (War, 1896--1930)
Lin Yaode (1962--96)
460(6)
The Terminal
Prefatory Poem
The Lie of a Spring I tightly Wind
The Concept of ``Non''
The Red Chamber
Hong Hong (1964-- )
466(10)
Zoo City (three selections)
A Drop of Juice Falls
Woman Translating
No War
Suitcase Lost and Found
Someone I Loved
Things Free of Me
Xu Huizhi (1966--)
476(9)
Corporeal Form
A Flea Attends the Buddha's Sermon
My Compassionate Buddha
Body in Ruins
A Bowl of Rice
Soon It Will be Cold
Purple hare
The Implorer
Notes on the Contributors 485(4)
Select Bibliography in English 489

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