Frontier Taiwan by Yeh, Michelle -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half title Editorial Board Title Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgments Note on Translation Map of Taiwan Frontier Taiwan: An Introduction Yang Hua (1906–36)

Black Tide (seven selections) Heartstrings (two selections) Tawny Cottages Sad Song of the Female Worker

Yang Chichang (1908–94)

Rouge and Lips The Nun Burning Cheeks Veins and Butterflies Autumn Sea Travelogue Pale Song Ruined City: Tainan Qui Dort Love Song Sea of Flowers

Qin Zihao (1912–63)

Desert Wind Remembering Seashells (I) Gallery Black Narcissus Hair Seashells (II)

Ji Xian (1913– )

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)

Grave Sweeping This Year Love Taiwan My Pen Maybe It’s the Weight of a Poem

Zhan Bing (1921– )

Affair May Planting Rice Sprouts Liquid Morning Seven-Colored Time Liquid Flows Into the Cup of the Heart

Zhou Mengdie (1921– )

Caltrops Diary of a Believer Mendicant Prisoner Nine Lines On the Ferry Twelfth Month Sixth Month Mountain Polydactylism

Huan Fu (1922– )

Walking in the Rain Forest Carrier Pigeon Wild Deer Excuse My Rudeness Find an Honorific for Mosquitos Shadow Incident

Lin Hengtai (1924– )

Philosopher Books Landscape No. 1 Landscape No. 2 Traces NO. 1

Du Pan Fangge (1927– )

Rebirth Paper People Beyond the Mulberry Tree Under the Pomelo Tree Womb

Luo Fu (1928– )

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 (A Hidden-Title Poem) Silent Pumpkin

Luo Men (1928– )

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–For Rongzi Readjustment of Twentieth-Century Space for Existence Who Could Purchase the Horizon?

Rongzi (1928– )

To Morning No More Blossoms Fly in Our City A Green Lotus Umbrella When All Living Creatures Go By The Insect World—Portrait Of The Grasshopper

Xiang Ming (1928– )

Dawn at Prosperity Corner Tumor Ivy The Setting Sun on Manila Bay Possible Rolling a Steel Hoop

Yu Guangzhong (1928– )

When I Am Dead The Double Bed Green Bristlegrass If a War Is Raging Afar Nostalgia When Night Falls The Crystal Prison—on a Watch A Tale on the Hill Evening The Spiderwebs The Pearl Necklace What Is the Rain Saying Through the Night? The Langlois Bridge—on a Painting by Van Gogh

Guan Guan (1929– )

Cousin Rat The Ravenous Prince Long Street Talking About the “Emperor Qianlong Tripitaka, Carved on Knot-Free Unblemished Slow-Cured Blocks from Prime Pear Trees Felled in Winter”

Shang Qin (1930– )

The Anthill The Ladder The Maple Tree The Gloves A Faun’s Afternoon Giraffe Overdrawn Footprints—in Memory of Those Days With Ya Xian at Zuoying Pigeons The Dog The Mosquito Electric Lock Moonlight—in Mourning of Someone The Cat Who Walks Through the Wall Snow Rooster Railroad Crossing

Zhang Mo (1931– )

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-storied Pagoda The Future: Four Versions

Ya Xian (1932– )

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– )

The Song of the Soil The Zanzibar Lion A Leopard Seen at the Shunxing Teahouse The Speech of Stones—for Humans

Zheng Chouyu (1933– )

Life in the Mountains Mistake In Dreamland Watery Lane Buddhist Chant Skylight Stopping at a Minor Station—A Dedication Still Life Morning Afternoon Pure Clarity Border Inn The Temple Bull Guests of Snow

Bai Qiu (1937– )

Armchair Sky Cry Weight Geese Canary Vine The Square Silent Gecko

Ye Weilian (1937– )

Fugue Pastiches from Taiwan Countryside (four selections) Quest Traveling in Spring

Lin Ling (1938– )

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– )

Thinking with Fire Dark Associations I’m Already on My Way to You Jar Ripples Life

Yang Mu (1940– )

News Footsteps Flowing River In the Midnight Cornfield Screen The Second Renunciation Floating Fireflies Etudes: The Twelve Earthly Branches Let the Wind Recite Zeelandia—Tainan, Taiwan Solitude Forbidden Game 1 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—to the Tune Metamorphosis 2 by Philip Glass Solitude, 1910 (Leo Tolstoy: from Astapovo … to Sonya)

Zhang Cuo (1943– )

Autumn Reminiscence The Distance of Winter Words of a Goose Catcher In Imitation of the Ancients The Secret Garden

Wu Sheng (1994– )

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– )

Memento of the Deceased Prisoner of War Aspiration of Poetry Tilting Island Death Report Reading Poems on a Late-Night Airliner

Luo Qing (1948– )

The Invisible Man Heaven’s Revenge The Avenging Ghost—Talking With Pu Songling Once More Looking out at the Deep Blue Sea After Looking out at the Deep Blue Sea Many Times Before Córdoba I Refuse—A Critique of Fall Please Just Wink Quatrain

Su Shaolian (1949– )

Beast Peeling a Pear Photocopier Mixed Blood Shadow Burial Sleep Deeply, Shore That Horse Like Moonlight

Jian Zhengzhen (1950– )

Secret On the Great Wall Memory Reading a Letter

Bai Ling (1951– )

Childhood Years, Part I: The 1940s Spring’s Brief Visit to Taipeim Lip Rouge Kite

Ling Yu (1952– )

Since You Can‘t Advance You Can’t Retreat Either (From “The Trunk Series”) Names Vanished from the Map (five selections) The Family of Acrobats Freeze-Frame in the Midst of War (two selections)

Chen Yizhi (1953– )

Taiwan Rains Broken-down Family Tree Thinking, Worrying (I) Whale An Alzheimer’s Kind of Love Entombed Warrior

Du Ye (1953– )

Frog Snowfield Vermilion Cabinet A Wish Universal Love, Not War Li Bai The Tilapia in the Sky

Chen Li (1954– )

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—for Fischer-Dieskau The River of Shadows The Edge of the Island Microcosmos (ten selections) Autumn Song The War Symphony Formosa, 1661 Dialogue—for Hikari Oe Butterfly Air Tunnel On the Island Composition

Yang Ze (1954– )

Fugue of Violence and Music—to Jethro Tull 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– )

Father Darling Letters (five selections) The Wolf The Great Rains of ’93—to the Eternal “Last Reader” The Bookstore of My Dreams

Xiang Yang (1955– )

Train Station My Cares Seed Autumn Words Nine to Five Uniform Lesser Fullness of Grain Great Heat Waking of Insects Hoarfrost Lesser Snow Great Cold

Jiao Tong (1956– )

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– )

Sweet Revenge Hibernation Bronze Poet’s Day Picnic The Simple Future Tense The Hidden Queen and Her Invisible City Parable Children (1) Yarmidiso Language Family Excuse Afternoon Tea Memory Ode on a Thing Fauves Mozart in E-Flat Major Ensemble Against the Wind—for F 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—for J.W.

Lin Yu (1957– )

My Dream Is Taking a Trip—Seeing a Friend off for Hong Kong Spring Sings in My Veins Name Cards Numbers Mr. D The Idiot Chair A Bachelor’s Diary

Liu Kexiang (1957– )

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– )

Delirious Spring 1985 The Encounter Dream Transfer Going to Work Leaving Work Motorcycle

Chen Kehua (1961– )

Clown Spirit—Watching Marcel Marceau This Life No Children Are Born in This Instant (From “Imaginary Exercises In Love And Death”) Ballpoint Pen (from “Interior Design”) Bathroom (From “INTERIOR DESIGN”) On TV After Dinner Message Board at a Train Station Butterfly Dream Sodomy’s Necessity Still

Walis Nokan (1961– )

Back to the Tribe! Atayal (War, 1896–1930)

Lin Yaode (1962–96)

The Terminal Prefatory Poem (From a Silver Bowl Full of Snow) The Lie of a Spring I Tightly Wind The Concept of “Non” The Red Chamber

Hong Hong (1964– )

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– )

Corporeal Form—for Aung San Suu Kyi A Flea Attends the Buddha’s Sermon My Compassionate Buddha—Ananda's Confession Body in Ruins A Bowl of Rice—the End of Aung San Suu Kyi'S House Arrest Soon It Will Be Cold Purple Hare The Implorer

Notes on the Contributors Select Bibliography in English Series List

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