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Poetic Meaning: Thirty Notes on Modern Chinese Poetry
Do Not Become a Poet—Become Someone Who Discovers Poetry
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Ma Jiahui: Regrettably, It Took Him So Long to Arrive Luo Yijun: Those Lightning-Flashed Moments Zhou Yunpeng: A Fine Poet I Admire Zhong Lifeng: You and I Are Both Travelers Qi Jinnian: He Understands Your Bewilderment Leung Man-tao: China Is a Country of Poetry 0. Discovering Poetry: Build a Temple Deep Within Hearing Poem | Liao Weitang, “Supermoon”: It Moves a Foreign Land, Not Home Poem | Huang Canran, “All Is World, All Is Matter”: All Is Poetry 1. Modern Poetry Keeps an Intimate Distance from Classical Verse Poem | Zhou Mengdie, “Ten Good Lines”: With Green in Your Heart, Grass Awaits Outside 2. Modern Poetry's Humane Person Loves the Self Before Others Poem | Xi Xi, “Water Heater”: Mother Asked What I Would Be When I Grew Up 3. Modern Poetry's Hidden Music: Cadence Beyond Poetic Sentiment Poem | Ya Xian, “Beggar”: I Do Not Know What Will Happen When Spring Comes 4. Modern Poetry's Freedom Is the Silent Universe Containing Everything Poem | Shang Qin, “Giraffe”: Pacing Below the Giraffe Enclosure 5. A Poet Who Died of “Poetic Meaning” Poem | Paul Celan, “Death Fugue”: A Grave in the Clouds, Where No One Lies Crowded Poem | Paul Celan, “Memory of France”: We Went to the Flower Girl to Buy Hearts 6. Hong Kong's Mysterious Flavor: Salted Fish Swimming in Its Own Smell Poem | Yam Gong, “Mystery”: The Rock Sugar of Childhood Still Has Not Melted 7. A Woman Poet Writes: Marriage Is Really About Ketchup Poem | Hsia Yu, “Canned Fish”: The Sea Is Too Deep for the Shore to Know 8. Bei Dao's Nothingness and Auden's Awareness: Truth Is Harder to Find Than Comfort Poem | Bei Dao, “Everything”: Today's Nihilistic Youth, Despairing Yet Hopeful Poem | Auden, “The More Loving One”: Indifference of Stars or Beasts Need Not Trouble Us 9. Love Thinks Improperly, and Writing Runs Free Poem | Bukowski, “Like a Sparrow”: When I Should Have Had Courage to Love, I Hated You Poem | Liao Weitang: Your Name Is Russia's Long Border 10. The Boy Extinguished by a Fire Extinguisher Poem | Shang Qin, “Fire Extinguisher”: Why Do They Always Tell Us to Restrain Our Anger? 11. Freedom to Bend Will Grow Ever Wider Poem | Wisława Szymborska, “Possibilities”: I Prefer Poem | Mandelstam: Yes, I Lie in the Earth 12. A Revolution in Measure Words: A Household of Pigs, a Head of Discipline Poem | Xi Xi, “Can We Say”: Long Live Dragon's Beard Candy 13. Animal Melancholy Written Like an Instruction Manual Poem | Hu Shi, “On the Lake”: One Firefly on Water, One Beneath Poem | Han Dong, “A and B”: This Is the Mistake Committed with B 14. The Muse's Telescope Must Be Used Backward Poem | Zhang Zao, “Telescope”: Hurry, Do Not Be Delayed by Anything Else 15. A Robot's Thoughts and the Poetry of Science Fiction Poem | Microsoft Xiaoice: I Am the Soul of Twentieth-Century Humanity 16. Negative Energy Is Humanity's Privilege in Writing Poetry Poem | Liao Weitang, “Anti-Science-Fiction Poem”: Abandon Your Anti-Despair Medicine When Evacuating Earth 17. Time in Poetry Is Naturally Reversible Poem | Bian Zhilin, “Fragment”: Where Did the Person Watching the Scenery Go? Poem | Bian Zhilin, “Voyage”: The Thoughtful Remember a Long Night's Journey Home 18. In Poetry, the Distance from Earth to Immortality Is One Leap Poem | Fei Ming, “Night of December 19”: The Sea Is Night's Mirror Poem | Fei Ming, “Plucking a Flower”: This Water Reveals No Corpse 19. Leaving Reality for Reality's Sake Poem | Huang Canran, “Mother”: Today's Blanket Finally Covers Twenty Years Ago Poem | Huang Canran, “Heaven, Earth, Hell”: Sometimes I Return to Hell Like Returning Home 20. Slipping and Falling; the Mountain Remains Silent Poem | William Carlos Williams, “This Is Just to Say”: Forgive Me Poem | William Carlos Williams: The Comfort of a Ripe Plum 21. Where No Path Remains, Sunlight Sometimes Flashes Poem | Yu Xiuhua, “My Dog, Little Wu”: You Are Powerless Against Someone Unafraid of Pain 22. Are We Slowly Becoming a Windbreak? Poem | Lin Hengtai, “Landscape No. 1 & No. 2”: Yet the Sea and the Array of Waves 23. Is Being Out of Time a Sin? Poem | A Long, “Untitled”: Do Not Step on Dew, for Someone Wept Here at Night 24. Is Being Untimely a Modern Gift? Poem | Meng Lang, “High on the Watchtower”: Alive, Fold Yourself Away as Much as Possible 25. Seeing the City Again Beyond Landmark Writing Poem | Leung Ping-kwan, “Noon at Quarry Bay”: Life Is Continuous Hammering 26. Anger Makes Poets; Frustration Becomes Lyric Poem | Mu Dan, “Sacrifice”: A Great Wind Rises Outside, and Ghosts Appear 27. Mainland Poets Have “No Anger Left to Feel” Poem | Hung Hung: Thanks to Nanshuoshan Natural Strontium-Rich Mineral Water 28. Like Dew and Lightning, a Dream and Phantom Poem | Guan Guan, “Lotus”: There Once Was Lake After Lake of Mud 29. “Su-Si-Huang,” the Virgin Mary Poem | Cai Yanpei, “Mother's Day”: Why Must Women Save the World? 30. Original Intentions Are Like Flags: Always the Ones Betrayed Poem | Lorca, “Half Moon”: The Moon Harvests the River's Trembling Poem | Lorca, “The Mute Boy”: The King of Crickets Took His Voice Bonus | Catching Fish in the River in Summer Poem | Chen Qingzhi, “Catching Fish”: There Are No Fish, So We Become Fish 31. If Being a Ghost Is Fine, Why Become Human? Poem | Gu Cheng, “Origins of Stars and Moon”: Holes Pierced in Night Became Stars and Moon Poem | Gu Cheng, “Ghost Enters the City”: Even Ghosts Must Take Care at Night 32. Everything That Shines Will Never Go Out Poem | Liao Weitang: Tai Kok Tsui, Seeking Spring at McDull Kindergarten but Finding None Poem | Liao Weitang: They Have Already Dug Your Diamond-Studded Golden Grave Poem | Liao Weitang: While Days Are Long and Nights Short, Remember the Return Envelope Poem | Liao Weitang: A Normal Scene in Early Summer 33. In the Damp Dusk, Your Father Will Surely Return Poem | Borges, “Rain”: Rain Is Undoubtedly Something That Happened in the Past Poem | Liao Weitang, “Rondo”: Speaking of a Certain Distant Afternoon 34. Seeing Only a Patch of Sky from a Southern Courtyard Poem | Borges, “The South”: My Ignorance Has Not Yet Learned 35. Does Death Cancel All Meaning? Poem | Ko Un, “Whisper”: Long Ago, I Was Your Every Joy and Sorrow 36. The Sea Is the Corpse's Destination Poem | Ko Un, “Sudden Rain”: Hundreds of Millions of Buddhas Pour Down 37. Finding Order Within Elusive Fate Poem | Feng Zhi, Sonnet 15: Like a Bird in the Air 38. Life's Reality Is “I Think, Therefore I Am” Poem | Feng Zhi, Sonnet 16: Sorrow Is a Pine on the Hillside Poem | Feng Zhi, Sonnet 21: We Are So Lonely Beneath the Lamp 39. Can “The Contemporary” Be Written Only by the Salt of the Earth? Poem | Ya Xian, “Salt”: Second Aunt Never Met Dostoevsky 40. We Truly Are Bubbles That Shine for No Reason Poem | Lo Fu, “Beyond the Bubbles”: In an Age of Drifting, Where Can a River Find Its Banks? Poem | Lo Fu, from “Heavy Snow in Hunan”: Silence Is Another Form of Protest 41. The End of the World Has No Meaning for Humanity Poem | Czesław Miłosz: On Doomsday, an Old Man Tends His Tomatoes 42. Of All Ways to End, I Prefer Returning to Zero Poem | Liao Weitang, “A Little Apocalypse on Santorini”: Homer and Miłosz Stride Across the Sea 43. Light Moves All Things, and Plants Long to Speak Poem | Gary Snyder: A Vast, Blurred Whiteness Pulls Me Out of Night 44. Hewing an Axe Handle: The Pattern Is Close at Hand Poem | Gary Snyder, “Axe Handles”: I Am the Axe, My Son the Handle Poem | Gary Snyder: The Vortex of Input and Output, Unbroken Clarity 45. A Wish for the Earth Poem | Yan Li, “Give It Back to Me”: Give Me Back the Space to Love 46. If the Stars No Longer Summon Moral Law Poem | Mandelstam: I Wash in the Darkness Outside the House 47. The Last Lyric from an Agricultural Civilization Poem | Hai Zi, “Sunlight”: Two Little Cousins Like Two Pieces of Charcoal 48. Choosing Who to Become in the Secular Rain Poem | Kenji Miyazawa, “Strong in the Rain”: Without Desire, Never Angry 49. May You Stay Forever Lost on the Road to Poetry Poem | Huai Yuan, “Flea”: The Wind Says I Do Not Want to Travel with Dust Poem | Chiu Kang-chien, “Fugue: Listening to Bach”: What Night Is This? 50. Another Millennium of Sentence for Sisyphus's Footsteps