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Across the darkness of the river / Hsi Muren ; translated by Zhang Shuli.
Van Pelt Library PL2862.I1235 A37 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Xi, Murong
- Series:
- Green Integer (Series) ; 38.
- Taiwanese modern literature series
- Green Integer ; 38
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Physical Description:
- 78 pages ; 16 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- København ; Los Angeles : Green Integer, [2001]
- Summary:
- Poet, painter, and essayist Hsi Muren is perhaps the most widely read woman poet in Taiwan. Ever since her first two collections of poetry, Seven Miles of Fragrance (1981) and Youth of No Regret (1983), she has attracted readers for her themes of undying love and a melancholic sense of the lost past. As a poet of Mongolian descent, moreover, Hsi presents in her poetry a diasporic nostalgia for a lost world from a perspective that is imaginary but insistently poignant. As translator Chang Shu-li writes, "Using Mongol as a sign for an inaccessible past gives her poems of nostalgia an extra urgency, with her stress falling less on the remembrance of things past than on the resistance to forgetting. It is perhaps this implicit tension between sentimental nostalgia and diasporic nostalgia that makes her poems on Mongol appealing to readers similarly forced to the diasporic situation by the political conflicts between Taiwan and China." Collected here for the first time in English, Hsi's poems speak profoundly of an awkward poise between the anxiety of remembering and the need to forget.
- Contents:
- Seven Miles of Fragrance 20
- A Lithograph 21
- If 23
- An Artiste 25
- A Flowering Tree 26
- Not a Parting 27
- The Bride of Loulan 28
- A Mountain Trail 30
- A Sad Song 32
- Seeing a Friend Off 33
- An Experiment 35
- The National Museum of History 36
- The Revenge of Time (Three Poems) 42
- The Rainy Season 46
- Across the Darkness of the River 48
- The Thinker 52
- In the Wake of Autumn 55
- A Short Note 58
- Iris 59
- A Quotation 61
- Woman Talk 63
- Shadows Shimmering at the Edge 65
- Three Poems on "Years" 67
- Reading Poems in the Quiet of the Night 70
- A Frontier Song 72
- The Ballad of Great Walls 74
- Ancestry Wisdom 76
- A Wild Horse 77
- Song of Wild Geese 79.
- ISBN:
- 1931243247
- OCLC:
- 47912882
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