Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry
, by Edited and translated by Michelle Yeh
- ISBN: 9780300059472 | 0300059477
- Cover: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 2/23/1994
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.
| 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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