{"product_id":"hawk-of-the-mind-9780231184694","title":"Hawk of the Mind","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYang Mu is a towering figure in modern Chinese poetry. \u003ci\u003eHawk of the Mind \u003c\/i\u003eis a comprehensive collection of Yang Mu’s poetry that presents crucial works from the many stages of his long creative career, rendered into English by a team of distinguished translators, illustrating the distinctive style and affective power of a great poet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe work of Taiwanese poet Yang Mu brings vivid and playful pastoral imagery. He examines both Chinese and Western literary and cultural traditions through his personal lens, and his writing retains its beautifully lyrical nature through the translation. * World Literature Today *\u003cbr\u003eBraiding images of nature with self-aware literary reference and linguistic terminology, Yang Mu shifts between intimate and expansive realms as he adopts personae. Occasionally retaining in their rich and piquant translations some of the nonspecific agency that typifies Chinese grammar, the translators deftly lavish attention not only on semantic meanings but on meanings made by sounds and tonal sequences. -- Forrest Gander, author of \u003ci\u003eCore Samples from the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn expertly translated, edited, and introduced collection, showcasing the distinctive craft of a consummate lyricist. “Poetry is insistence, not compromise,” writes Yang Mu. What a sumptuous feast he has served us in that remarkable spirit! -- Rey Chow, author of \u003ci\u003eNot Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWidely recognized as the most significant lyrical voice now writing in Chinese, Yang Mu is a national figure in Taiwan who has been recently promoted as a candidate for the Nobel Prize. Moreover, the translators are undoubtedly the very best in the English world. The renditions are superb and meet the linguistic challenges of the originals with dexterity and imagination. -- William Tay, University of California, San Diego\u003cbr\u003eYang Mu is always at or near the top of any list of contemporary modernist Chinese-language poets. Thanks to Michelle Yeh and her colleagues, the translations of his poems in this collection offer a generous selection of his lifetime of erudite engagement with both Chinese and Western cultures. -- Edward Gunn, Cornell University\u003cbr\u003eThese are superb translations of a sovereign poetic oeuvre. Yang Mu’s writing is at once delicate and forceful, reasoned and imaginative, cosmopolitan and grounded. Sixty years of poetry unfurl through a voice that breaks new ground time and again yet retains its constancy. \u003ci\u003eHawk of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is a major achievement—and a delight. -- Maghiel van Crevel, Leiden University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eBurning and Diffusing Through Eternity: An Introduction to Yang Mu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Star Is the Only Guide 1\u003cbr\u003eWater’s Edge \u003cbr\u003eTo Time \u003cbr\u003eFragment \u003cbr\u003eFolding Screen \u003cbr\u003eA Sequel to Han Yu’s “Mountain Rocks,” a Seven-Character Poem in the Old Style \u003cbr\u003eSnake: A Rondo \u003cbr\u003eJizi of Yanling Hangs Up His Sword \u003cbr\u003eKing Wu’s Night Encampment: A Suite \u003cbr\u003eEtudes: The Twelve Earthly Branches \u003cbr\u003eSailing to Ireland \u003cbr\u003eIreland \u003cbr\u003eLet the Wind Recite \u003cbr\u003eManuscript in a Bottle \u003cbr\u003eLines of the Hand \u003cbr\u003eBring You Home to Hualian \u003cbr\u003eSolitude \u003cbr\u003eForbidden Games 1 \u003cbr\u003ePaddy Field Region \u003cbr\u003eLight Rain \u003cbr\u003eTo the Ancient \u003cbr\u003eMinor Realization \u003cbr\u003eSonnet: The Travelers \u003cbr\u003eTree in the College \u003cbr\u003eLooking Down \u003cbr\u003eSomeone Asks Me a Question About Justice and Righteousness \u003cbr\u003eTree \u003cbr\u003eMiaoyu Sits in Meditation \u003cbr\u003eDeparting the Grasslands \u003cbr\u003eSonnets on \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Changes \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeaving a Banquet Early in Summer Heat \u003cbr\u003eLama Reincarnated \u003cbr\u003eVillage Sonnets \u003cbr\u003eIn Lieu of a Letter \u003cbr\u003eFable Number 2: Yellow Sparrow \u003cbr\u003eVariation on “A Traveler’s Heart” \u003cbr\u003eHawk of the Mind \u003cbr\u003eRemembering Berkeley \u003cbr\u003eWritten on Returning to the Northwest \u003cbr\u003eDusk from an Upper Floor \u003cbr\u003eEpisodic Capriccio for Solo \u003cbr\u003eSix Quatrains, Written in Fun \u003cbr\u003ePropositions of Temporality \u003cbr\u003eChang’an \u003cbr\u003eA Lyric \u003cbr\u003eTo the Angel \u003cbr\u003eAfternoon of a Gladiolus \u003cbr\u003eLakeview \u003cbr\u003eTale (In the meter of “Metamorphosis Two” by Philip Glass) \u003cbr\u003eBohori (Khabarovsk, 1994) \u003cbr\u003eMidnight \u003cbr\u003eSolitude. 1910 \u003cbr\u003eSt. Petersburg \u003cbr\u003eGrain Buds \u003cbr\u003eArs Poetica \u003cbr\u003eGazing Up \u003cbr\u003eNew Songs \u003cbr\u003eSymbol \u003cbr\u003eA Flurry of Snow \u003cbr\u003eSeven Stars Bay \u003cbr\u003eThe Previous Life \u003cbr\u003eUnder the Pine \u003cbr\u003eRabbits \u003cbr\u003eRays of the Fading Sun \u003cbr\u003eThe Vacated Seat \u003cbr\u003ePortrait of a Lady \u003cbr\u003eSong of Floss Flower \u003cbr\u003eComposed for the Lyrical Oboe \u003cbr\u003eSubject \u003cbr\u003eMisimpression \u003cbr\u003ePheasant \u003cbr\u003eA Draw in a Game of Chess \u003cbr\u003eThe Water Nymph \u003cbr\u003ePindar’s Ode \u003cbr\u003eFallen Leaves \u003cbr\u003eThe Lost Ring—for Chechnya \u003cbr\u003eWritten at Daybreak \u003cbr\u003eNo Time Difference \u003cbr\u003eAncient Banyan Tree in Tainan \u003cbr\u003eThe Rite of Passage \u003cbr\u003eZiye Extemporizes in Song \u003cbr\u003eWar \u003cbr\u003eForgotten \u003cbr\u003eThe Heart Wavers \u003cbr\u003eSubstitution \u003cbr\u003eUntitled 1 \u003cbr\u003eUntitled 2 \u003cbr\u003eThe Fog and My Other Self \u003cbr\u003eCycad Aulacaspis Scale \u003cbr\u003eDragonfly \u003cbr\u003eSince You Went Away \u003cbr\u003eBetel Creek, Chinan Lakefront #2: \u003ci\u003ePartita per Violoncello \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePine Garden \u003cbr\u003eTo the Tune “Behind the Soochow Curtain” \u003cbr\u003eTitle Unknown \u003cbr\u003eZuocang: Sakor \u003cbr\u003eCloud Ship \u003cbr\u003eOn Solitude \u003cbr\u003eGreece \u003cbr\u003eDiscussing Poetry Writing with Someone \u003cbr\u003eSubstance, Shadow, and Spirit \u003cbr\u003eFern Songs \u003cbr\u003eReading Dante at Year’s End \u003cbr\u003eFluctuating Rhythm \u003cbr\u003eAs Yet Unattained \u003cbr\u003eWritten for a Meeting \u003cbr\u003eLectures \u003cbr\u003eVariations on \u003ci\u003eZither Melodies \u003c\/i\u003eNo. 9 \u003cbr\u003eListening to the Wind \u003cbr\u003eAutumn \u003cbr\u003ePreface to \u003ci\u003eManuscript in a Bottle \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfterword to \u003ci\u003eSomeone\u003c\/i\u003e: Poetry Is Written for People \u003cbr\u003eAfterword to \u003ci\u003ePropositions of Temporality \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfterword to \u003ci\u003eCycad Aulacaspis Scale \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelect Bibliography \u003cbr\u003eTranslators","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default 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