
Forbidden Games and Video Poems
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Two contemporary poets from Taiwan, Yang Mu (pen name for Wang Ching-hsien, b. 1940) and Lo Ch'ing (pen name for Lo Ch'ing-che, b. 1948), are represented in this bilingual edition of Chinese poetry ranging from the romantic to the postmodern. Both poets were involved in the selection of poems for this volume, the first edition in any language of their selected work. Their backgrounds, literary styles, and professional lifes are profiled and compared by translator Joseph R. Allen in critical essays that show how Yang and Lo represent basic directions in modern Chinese poetics and how they have contributed to the definition of modernism and postmodernism in China.
The book's organization reflects each poet's method of composition. Yang's poems are chronologically arrangd, as his poetry tends to describe a narrative line that closely parallels his own biography. Lo's poems, which explore a world of concept and metaphor, are grouped by theme. Although each poet has a range of poetic voices, Yang's work can be considered the peak of high modernism in Chinese poetry, while Lo's more problematic work suggests the direction of new explorations in the art. In this way the two poets are mutually illuminating.
Each group of poems is prefaced by an ?illustration? that draws from another side of the poet's intellectual life. For Yang, who is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Washington, these are excerpts from his academic work (written under the name C.H. Wang) in English. The poems by Lo, a well-known painter living in Taiwan, are illustrated by five of his own ink paintings.
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- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Written with People in Mind
- A Poem Is a Cat in One's Mind
- Yang Mu and Lo Ch'ing: A Profile
- Forbidden Games: The Poetry of Yang Mu
- From Taiwan to Iowa
- From the Preface to From Ritual to Allegory
- The News
- The River's Edge
- When the Wind Comes Up
- The Town Where You Live
- A Ranch in the Rain
- In the Cornfields of the Dark Night
- April 2: With Yu Kwang-chung Watching the Michigan Snow Melt
- Berkeley and Beyond
- From "The Weniad
- King Wu's Encampment: A Suite of Songs
- Continuing Han Yü's "Mountain Stones
- From "Bring on the Wine" (1 and 4)
- Surprise Lilies
- The Wind Rolls through the Snowy Woods
- Summertime
- From "A Set of Fourteen Sonnets" (1 and 2)
- Six Songs to the Tune "Partridge Skies
- An Autumnal Prayer to Tu Fu
- Taiwan Again
- From "The Bird as Messenger of Love in Allegorical Poetry
- A Love Poem
- Kaohsiung, 1973
- What Is in Your Heart
- A Stand of Reeds
- Solitude
- A Stand of Rice
- Zeelandia
- Europe
- From "Naming the Reality of Chinese Criticism
- Cicada
- Forbidden Game 1
- Forbidden Game 2
- Forbidden Game 3
- Forbidden Game 4
- On the Death of a Professor of British Literature
- The Panjshir Valley
- From "Nine Arguments" (2. Meandering)
- In the Kuroshio Current
- From "The Nature of Narrative in T'ang Poetry
- Conversation Class
- The International Dateline Concerto
- From "Fourteen Sonnets for Ming-ming" (1 and 11)
- Moon over Pass Mountain
- Gazing Down
- Song of Yesterday's Snow
- Spring Song
- Someone Asked Me about Truth and Justice
- Video Poems: The Poetry of Lo Ch'ing
- The Childlike Mind
- Saddle Vine
- The Rice Song
- Bizarre Manifestations of the Dharma
- On the Way of Snowy Nights
- A Silent Prayer
- Don't Read This
- Rising
- The Little Commander of Donkeys
- Ant
- Stars, Stars, and More Stars
- Fluorescent Lights
- A Life Sketch
- Love and Death
- Means of Revenge
- The Way
- Needlework
- The House
- The Avenging Ghost
- Self-Sacrifice
- The Sound of a Motor Coming from Afar
- Bitter Tea
- Heaven's Revenge
- Heroes in the Aftermath
- Ars Poetica
- Not to Keep Anything from You
- Ode to the Southwest Wind
- Found by the Pool
- The Game of Go, Black Pieces
- Reading Paintings in the Cloud-Nourishing Studio
- Book Burning
- Protest Posters
- The Hand of the Lone Dragon Slayer
- Hey, What's Up?
- Transformations
- On Piscine Metamorphosis
- Two Trees
- The Imperial Annals of the Water Buffalo
- Raking Leaves
- The Painting "Listening to the Brook
- Into Autumn: Eighteen Lines
- Metamorphosis
- A Night on Mount Pleiades
- The Invisible Man
- Sighs of Complaint
- The Moon in the Pines
- Art Appreciation
- Near Postmodern
- Six Ways to Eat a Watermelon
- The Ladder
- Waking the Sleeping Dragon
- The Teacup Theorems
- Sunrise
- Once More Looking out at the Deep Blue Sea after Looking out at the Deep Blue Sea Many Times Before
- Syllygisms
- So Grows the Mountain
- A Good-bye Epistle about Good-bye
- Translator's Notes
- Density and Lucidity: The Poetics of Yang Mu and Lo Ch'ing
- Sources
- Bibliography of Selected Works
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