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Wandering Hong Kong with spirits : selected poetry of Liu Waiton / Liu Waiton, translated from the Chinese by Enoch Yee-lok Tam, Desmond Sham, Audrey Heijns, Chan Lai-kuen and Cao Shuying = He you ling yi qi de Xianggang man you : Liao Weitang shi xuan / Liao Weitang.
Wandering Hong Kong with spirits : selected poetry of Liu Waiton Liu Waiton, translated from the Chinese by Enoch Yee-lok Tam, Desmond Sham, Audrey Heijns, Chan Lai-kuen and Cao Shuying = 和幽靈一起的香港漫遊 : 廖偉棠詩選 / 廖偉棠.
Van Pelt Library PL2946.3.A685 H4313 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Liao, Weitang, 1975- author.
- 廖偉棠, 1975- author.
- Series:
- Hong Kong Atlas.
- Hong Kong Atlas
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese poetry.
- Chinese poetry--21st century.
- Hong Kong (China).
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 165 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Other Title:
- He you ling yi qi de Xianggang man you
- Selected poetry of Liu Waiton
- Liao Weitang shi xuan
- 和幽靈一起的香港漫遊
- 廖偉棠詩選
- Place of Publication:
- [Brookline, MA] : Zephyr Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- Chinese characters and English translation on facing pages.
- Summary:
- The first book in the Hong Kong Atlas series, which is a crucial first step in expanding the English-language canon with a range of Hong Kong voices. Authors in the series include a mix of established and emerging authors, ranging from classic untranslated works to a new generation of writers such as Liu Waitong.Liu Waitong (b. 1975) is a poet, novelist, photographer, essayist, and critic. He made his debut as a poet in 1995, and since then he has published ten poetry collections and a novel. He has received a number of literary awards in Hong Kong and Taiwan, including the HK Chinese Literature Award.
- Contents:
- Preface / Christopher Mattison
- Tree outside the window
- Another divining cat poem, on a spring night
- A song of spring light
- 4am, make love to me
- Charlie on Temple Street
- The ballad of Queen's Pier
- The future history of Hong Kong Island
- In Beijing, I watch a documentary of the July 1 Hong Kong march
- "After writing an anti-war poem I leave the house"
- Fog: Taiping Shan Peak
- Reading the Xinxing County Gazetteer
- The best of times
- Someone plays hide-and-seek in the flame
- Realist laborer in spring
- In time of peace
- Night China
- Looking for Woodbrook Villa on Pokfulam Road
- Sonnet
- Revisiting Du Fu's thatched cottage
- A letter from Lhasa
- Poem for the universe's prostrating-walk
- Jesus is on Temple Street (A-yun's Christmas song)
- Luk Ming Street: to Madame Wu
- Ballad of the Central Star Ferry Pier
- A barbarous night song
- Ballad of the Paris Uprising
- Ballad of disheartenment
- Register of ghosts: Haizi
- Register of ghosts: Luo Yihe
- Register of ghosts: you
- 1967, May fourth memorabilia
- A seaside graveyard: three poems
- A Christmas book, or dark fairy tale
- A shadow's farewell
- In memory of a poet I never met
- 1949
- Written in fog
- The missing
- An elegy that does not mourn
- Drafting a doomsday poem
- Under a starry sky
- Notes
- Translation acknowledgments
- Author and translator bios.
- ISBN:
- 9781938890031
- 1938890035
- 9789881311535
- 9881311535
- OCLC:
- 859046399
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