Research Catalog

Title

No trace of the gardener : poems of Yang Mu / translated by Lawrence R. Smith and Michelle Yeh.

Author

Yang, Mu, 1940-

Publication

New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

• Smith, Lawrence R., 1945-
• Yeh, Michelle Mi-Hsi.

Description

xxxii, 239 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• Yang Mu, a pivotal figure in the development of modern Chinese literature, is one of the most widely read living poets of the world's largest literary audience: Chinese-speaking people. Providing a selection of poems from more than three decades of work, this book offers over one hundred translations that capture the poet's haunting lyricism.
• Drawing on avant-garde traditions of Europe and the United States as well as on the traditions of classical Chinese poetry and prose, his work explores intense sensuality, the anguish of war, exile, the colonial experience, and conflicting views of national and cultural identity.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

Yang, Mu, 1940- > Translations into English

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Yang Mu Chronology -- The Woman in Black -- News -- Footsteps -- Bivouac -- When Dusk Fills the Sky -- Narcissus -- The Town Where You Live -- Passing Through Peach Blossoms -- Silence -- Flowing River -- Questions for the Stars -- The Season of Falling Flowers -- On the Cliff -- Strawberry Fields in Summer -- Horse Stables in Light Rain -- Autumn Tree -- Blue Smoke -- Fragment -- To Time -- In Memoriam: Ch'in Tzu-hao (1912-1963) -- In the Midnight Cornfield -- A Verse of Ten Lines: Subtle Fragrance -- Screen -- Weaving -- A Sequel to Han Yu's "Mountain Rocks," a Seven-Character Poem in the Old Style -- Prophecy -- A Touch of Rain (Ars Poetica) -- The Second Renunciation -- Chi-tzu of Yen-ling Hangs Up His Sword -- King Wu's Night Encampment: A Suite -- Floating Fireflies -- Rondo: The Snake -- Etudes: The Twelve Earthly Branches -- Winds Chase Through a Snowy Forest -- Nocturne Number Two: Melting Snow -- Sailing to Ireland --
• Almost Number One: Landing at Tokyo Airport on July 7, 1971 -- Almost Number Two: Every Summer -- Water Music -- Lovesong -- Metaphysics -- Theology -- Geometry -- Futile Grass -- Watch -- We Too Will Set Sail -- Fourteen Sonnets (Selections) -- Kao-hsiung, 1973 -- Bonn, 1973 -- Elegy -- Let the Wind Recite -- Partridge Sky -- Manuscript in a Bottle -- River Goddess: Geometry -- Untitled Verse in Regular Meter -- With Hands Behind My Back I Watch Snow -- Zeelandia -- Song of Gray Hair -- Yin-Yang and the Five Elements -- Nocturne -- Claire de lune -- Solitude -- Three Mournful Songs -- How You Feel -- After the Show -- Forbidden Game 1 -- Forbidden Game 2 -- Forbidden Game 3 -- Forbidden Game 4 -- Not an Elegy -- Asking the Dancer -- Answering the Dancer -- Lullaby -- Folksong - On the Fortieth Anniversary of Lorca's Death -- Virgil -- Reed Field -- Complete Handicraft -- On the Death of an English Literature Professor -- Rondo Number Two -- Dying Young --
• Returning from the Beach -- Evening Clouds -- The First Snow -- Hua-lien -- Cicada -- In Memoriam: Albert Einstein -- Conversation -- Seven Turns of the Coast -- Annotations on Plants and Trees for Ying-ying (Selections) -- Fourteen Sonnets for Ming-ming (Selections) -- Midautumn Night -- Midautumn -- Playing in Puddles after Rain -- Rapids -- Incomplete Trio -- Flying Through the Human World -- Crows Crying in the Night -- Mount Rainier, 1983 -- Tree in the College -- Someone Asks Me about Justice and Righteousness -- Journey -- Panjshir Valley -- Wolves -- Looking Down (Li-wu Stream, 1983) -- In Imitation of "Poetry of Fields and Garden" -- Autumn Song -- Song of Yesterday's Snow -- Spring Song -- Synopsis -- A Test of Autumn -- Frost at Midnight -- Fish Festival -- I Came from the Sea -- Lamp -- In Fact -- Wind Chime -- Lama Reincarnated -- Facing the Fog with Ming-ming on December Seventeenth -- Three Etudes: The Snake -- Dance: A Solo -- Dance: A Duo --
• Song: Departing -- In Front of a Squadron of Tanks -- You'll Come Back Alive -- The Day after Easter -- Village Sonnets -- In Lieu of a Letter -- For No Reason -- Spring Moon: An Impromptu -- Fable Number 1: Stone Tiger -- Fable Number 2: Yellow Sparrow -- Fable Number 3: Salmon.

ISBN

0300070705 (alk. paper)

LCCN

97015641

OCLC

• 36877368
• ocm36877368

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries