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.

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