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Zusatztext These are superb translations of a sovereign poetic oeuvre. Yang Mu's writing is at once delicate and forceful! reasoned and imaginative! cosmopolitan and grounded. Sixty years of poetry unfurl through a voice that breaks new ground time and again yet retains its constancy. Hawk of the Mind is a major achievement-and a delight. Informationen zum Autor Yang Mu (the pen name of Wang Ching-hsien) was born and raised in Taiwan. He is the author of more than two dozen poetry and prose collections! including Propositions of Temporality! Interventions! Long and Short Ballads! and the memoir Memories of Mount Qilai: The Education of a Young Poet (Columbia! 2015). Among the many literary prizes he has received are the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature and the Cikada Prize (Sweden). Michelle Yeh is Distinguished Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California! Davis. She is coeditor and cotranslator of No Trace of the Gardener: Poems of Yang Mu (1998) and The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan (Columbia! 2014)! among others. Klappentext Yang Mu is a towering figure in modern Chinese poetry. Hawk of the Mind is a comprehensive collection of Yang Mu's poetry that presents crucial works from the many stages of his long creative career! rendered into English by a team of distinguished translators! illustrating the distinctive style and affective power of a great poet. Zusammenfassung Yang Mu is a towering figure in modern Chinese poetry. His poetic voice is subtle and lyrical, and his work is rich with precise images and crystalline thoughts invoking temporality and remembrance. A bold innovator and superb craftsman, he elegantly combines cosmopolitan experimentation with poetic forms and an allusive reverence for classical Chinese poetry while remaining rooted in his native Taiwan and its colonial history. Hawk of the Mind is a comprehensive collection of Yang Mu’s poetry that presents crucial works from the many stages of his long creative career, rendered into English by a team of distinguished translators. It conveys the complexity and beauty of Yang Mu’s work in a stately and lucid English poetic register that displays his ability to range from meditative to playful and colloquial to archaic. The volume includes an editor’s introduction and definitive commentary that offer insights into the poet’s major themes and motifs, explaining how he draws on deep engagement with Chinese and Western literary traditions, history, and art as well as mythology, philosophy, and music and a profound love for the natural world to create a nuanced and multifaceted artistic universe. It also contains translations of prefaces and afterwords written by Yang Mu for collections of his poetry. Hawk of the Mind demonstrates the breadth and depth of Yang Mu’s oeuvre, illustrating the distinctive style and affective power of a great poet. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Burning and Diffusing Through Eternity: An Introduction to Yang Mu Poems The Star Is the Only Guide 1 Water's Edge To Time Fragment Folding Screen A Sequel to Han Yu's "Mountain Rocks!" a Seven-Character Poem in the Old Style Snake: A Rondo Jizi of Yanling Hangs Up His Sword King Wu's Night Encampment: A Suite Etudes: The Twelve Earthly Branches Sailing to Ireland Ireland Let the Wind Recite Manuscript in a Bottle Lines of the Hand Bring You Home to Hualian Solitude Forbidden Games 1 Paddy Field Region Light Rain To the Ancient Minor Realization Sonnet: The Travelers Tree in the College Looking Down Someone Asks Me a Question About Justice and Righteousness Tree Miaoyu Sits in Meditation Departing the Grasslands Sonnets on The Book of Changes Leaving a Banquet Early in Summer Heat Lama Reincarnated Village So...
