Description
Book SynopsisXiang Yang's poetry stands as elegant testimony to the Taiwan experience. From start to finish, the collection is an articulation of Taiwan's identity imbued with salient cultural details. The range and variety of his seven books of poetry include the development of a new formalism, narrative verse forms, and a strong engagement with Taiwanese dialect poetry. Since the publication of his cycle The Four Seasons (1986) he has written little, publishing but a single collection titled Chaos in 2005. In the intervening years, he has earned a PhD in journalism and moved from journalism to academia, devoting himself primarily to teaching. Apart from writing and his academic life, Xiang Yang is an established woodblock artist.
Table of ContentsContents xi Introduction xvii Acknowledgments Ten-line Poems ?? 3 Listening to the Rain ?? 5 Thinking of a Friend ?? 7 Train Station ?? 9 Drinking Alone ?? 11 Mountain Moon ?? 13 The Fog Falls ?? 15 Forest ?? 17 Grass Roots ?? 19 My Cares ?? 21 Seed ?? 23 Autumn Words ?? 25 Stand ?? 27 Uniform ?? 29 Cold Current Dialect Poems ??? 33 Dad’s Lunchbox ?? ???? 35 His Honor, Mr. Assemblyman, ??? Is Not at Home ???? 37 The Village Chief Wants to Build ??? a Bridge ??? 41 Nine to Five A Miscellany ???? 45 Passing through a Small Station at Night, ?? Listening to the Rain ???? 47 Time Follows ?? 49 Chrysanthemum Sigh ???? 51 The Soil and the Flower ???? 55 Discovering ?? ? 59 Chaos ?? 63 Mountain Road The Four Seasons ?? 69 Beginning of Spring ?? 71 The Rains ?? 73 Waking of Insects ?? 75 Vernal Equinox ?? 77 Tomb Sweeping ?? 79 Grain Rain ?? 83 Beginning of Summer ?? 85 Lesser Fullness of Grain ?? 87 Grain in Ear ?? 89 Summer Solstice ?? 91 Lesser Heat ?? 93 Great Heat ?? 97 Beginning of Autumn ?? 99 The Limit of Heat ?? 101 White Dew ?? 103 Autumn Equinox ?? 105 Cold Dew ?? 107 Hoar Frost ?? 111 Beginning of Winter ?? 113 Lesser Snow ?? 115 Great Snow ?? 117 Winter Solstice ?? 119 Lesser Cold ?? 121 Great Cold
