Poetry
Summer 2001
Four Women Poets From Contemporary China: Aerobics
Has anyone seen heels dancing with toes? or the right hand lying on the wound of the left hand? At night the sun and the moon take turns […]
Poetry
Summer 2001
Four Women Poets From Contemporary China: Abortion
Since that cool night when water lilies first appeared life has carved out many chrysanthemum-like patterns of pregnancy on my fragile legs every soft line contains the tears of my […]
Poetry
Summer 2001
Four Women Poets From Contemporary China: Husk an Ear of Corn
That night was like all other nights corn swung gently at the back of the village I was waiting for my lover at the door He traversed one restroom and […]
Poetry
Summer 2001
Four Women Poets From Contemporary China: Two Women Talking about French Perfume
At noon Tu Xiaojie and I were sitting in my study and seriously talking about a bottle of French perfume as if talking about nuclear weapons This accidental gift is […]
Poetry
Summer 1998
A Fabricated Notebook about the Market Economy: Excerpts
From the Chinese. 1. From any window that becomes smaller than itself you can see this country-a station is followed by another station. You hide behind your eyes the fast-moving […]
Poetry
Summer 1996
Coming Onstage
a childhood of blossoming diseases of the word we say no more pace leisurely through life see the ocean behind the fences the seasons in which we have taken rides […]
Poetry
Summer 1996
Blue Wall
from the Chinese the road asks the sky a wheel looks for another wheel to be its witness: this warm fur this poetry of lightning fertility and passion […]
Poetry
Summer 1996
We
from the Chinese. are struck with panic and hold lanterns to pursue Spring scars gleam, cups revolve rays of light are created see that charming moment: some thief […]
Poetry
Summer 1996
Untitled
from the Chinese. people rush on the road, arrive reincarnate, and hide away in a bird's dream the sun flees from the wheat field but returns with the beggar […]
Poetry
Summer 1996
Progress
from the Chinese. day after day, suffering degenerates like a great endeavor like a petty bureaucrat I sit amidst my fate and illumine the lonely nation the dead have […]
Poetry
Summer 1996
Creation
from the Chinese. generations' and generations' creation troubles me for example, the night scurries over law there is always a reason for a dog barking madly at the […]