HAWK OF THE MIND MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE FROM TAIWAN MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE FROM TAIWAN Editorial Board Pang-yuan Chi Göran Malmqvist David Der-wei Wang, Coordinator Wang Chen-ho, Rose, Rose, I Love You Cheng Ch’ing-wen, Three-Legged Horse Chu T’ien-wen, Notes of a Desolate Man Hsiao Li-hung, A Thousand Moons on a Thousand Rivers Chang Ta-chun, Wild Kids: Two Novels About Growing Up Michelle Yeh and N. G. D. Malmqvist, editors, Frontier Taiwan: An Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry Li Qiao, Wintry Night Huang Chun-ming, The Taste of Apples Chang Hsi-kuo, The City Trilogy: Five Jade Disks, Defenders of the Dragon City, Tale of a Feather Li Yung-p’ing, Retribution: The Jiling Chronicles Shih Shu-ching, City of the Queen: A Novel of Colonial Hong Kong Wu Zhuoliu, Orphan of Asia Ping Lu, Love and Revolution: A Novel About Song Qingling and Sun Yat-sen Zhang Guixing, My South Seas Sleeping Beauty: A Tale of Memory and Longing Chu T’ien-hsin, The Old Capital: A Novel of Taipei Guo Songfen, Running Mother and Other Stories Huang Fan, Zero and Other Fictions Zhong Lihe, From the Old Country: Stories and Sketches from Taiwan Yang Mu, Memories of Mount Qilai: The Education of a Young Poet Li Ang, The Lost Garden: A Novel Ng Kim Chew, Slow Boat to China and Other Stories Wu He, Remains of Life: A Novel HAWK OF THE MIND COLLECTED POEMS YANG MU EDITED BY MICHELLE YEH COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS New York Columbia University Press wishes to express its appreciation for assistance given by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange and Council for Cultural Affairs in the publication of this book. Columbia University Press wishes to express its appreciation for assistance given by Mr. Tzu- hsien Tung, Chairman of the Pegatron Corporation, in the publication of this book. Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex cup.columbia.edu Copyright © 2018 Columbia University Press All rights reserved E-ISBN 978-0-231-54561-7 Cataloging-in-Publication Data available from the Library of Congress ISBN 978-0-231-18468-7 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-231-18469-4 (paper) LCCN: 2017040057 A Columbia University Press E-book. CUP would be pleased to hear about your reading experience with this e-book at cup- [email protected]. Cover image: Pai-Shih Lee © GettyImages Cover design: Chang Jae Lee CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION Poems The Star Is the Only Guide 1 Water’s Edge To Time Fragment Folding Screen A Sequel to Han Yu’s “Mountain Rocks,” a Seven-Character Poem in the Old Style Snake: A Rondo Jizi of Yanling Hangs Up His Sword King Wu’s Night Encampment: A Suite Etudes: The Twelve Earthly Branches Sailing to Ireland Ireland Let the Wind Recite Manuscript in a Bottle Lines of the Hand Bring You Home to Hualian Solitude Forbidden Games 1 Paddy Field Region Light Rain To the Ancient Minor Realization Sonnet: The Travelers Tree in the College Looking Down Someone Asks Me a Question About Justice and Righteousness Tree Miaoyu Sits in Meditation Departing the Grasslands Sonnets on The Book of Changes Leaving a Banquet Early in Summer Heat Lama Reincarnated Village Sonnets In Lieu of a Letter Fable Number 2: Yellow Sparrow Variation on “A Traveler’s Heart” Hawk of the Mind Remembering Berkeley Written on Returning to the Northwest Dusk from an Upper Floor Episodic Capriccio for Solo Six Quatrains, Written in Fun Propositions of Temporality Chang’an A Lyric To the Angel Afternoon of a Gladiolus Lakeview Tale (In the meter of “Metamorphosis Two” by Philip Glass) Bohori (Khabarovsk, 1994) Midnight Solitude. 1910 St. Petersburg Grain Buds Ars Poetica Gazing Up New Songs Symbol A Flurry of Snow Seven Stars Bay The Previous Life Under the Pine Rabbits Rays of the Fading Sun The Vacated Seat Portrait of a Lady Song of Floss Flower Composed for the Lyrical Oboe Subject Misimpression Pheasant A Draw in a Game of Chess The Water Nymph Pindar’s Ode Fallen Leaves The Lost Ring—for Chechnya Written at Daybreak No Time Difference Ancient Banyan Tree in Tainan The Rite of Passage Ziye Extemporizes in Song War Forgotten The Heart Wavers Substitution Untitled 1 Untitled 2 The Fog and My Other Self Cycad Aulacaspis Scale Dragonfly Since You Went Away Betel Creek, Chinan Lakefront #2: Partita per Violoncello Pine Garden To the Tune “Behind the Soochow Curtain” Title Unknown Zuocang: Sakor Cloud Ship On Solitude Greece Discussing Poetry Writing with Someone Substance, Shadow, and Spirit Fern Songs Reading Dante at Year’s End Fluctuating Rhythm As Yet Unattained Written for a Meeting Lectures Variations on Zither Melodies No. 9 Listening to the Wind Autumn Preface to Manuscript in a Bottle Afterword to Someone: Poetry Is Written for People Afterword to Propositions of Temporality Afterword to Cycad Aulacaspis Scale SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY TRANSLATORS
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