Hawk of the Mind (eBook)

Collected Poems

Yang Mu (Autor)

Michelle Yeh (Herausgeber)

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2018
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54561-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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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.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsBurning and Diffusing Through Eternity: An Introduction to Yang MuPoems The Star Is the Only Guide 1Water’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 Sonnets In Lieu of a Letter Fable Number 2: Yellow Sparrow Variation on “A Traveler’s Heart” Hawk of the Mind Remembering Berkeley Written on Returning to the Northwest Dusk from an Upper Floor Episodic Capriccio for Solo Six Quatrains, Written in Fun Propositions of Temporality Chang’an A Lyric To the Angel Afternoon of a Gladiolus Lakeview Tale (In the meter of “Metamorphosis Two” by Philip Glass) Bohori (Khabarovsk, 1994) Midnight Solitude. 1910 St. Petersburg Grain Buds Ars Poetica Gazing Up New Songs Symbol A Flurry of Snow Seven Stars Bay The Previous Life Under the Pine Rabbits Rays of the Fading Sun The Vacated Seat Portrait of a Lady Song of Floss Flower Composed for the Lyrical Oboe Subject Misimpression Pheasant A Draw in a Game of Chess The Water Nymph Pindar’s Ode Fallen Leaves The Lost Ring—for Chechnya Written at Daybreak No Time Difference Ancient Banyan Tree in Tainan The Rite of Passage Ziye Extemporizes in Song War Forgotten The Heart Wavers Substitution Untitled 1 Untitled 2 The Fog and My Other Self Cycad Aulacaspis Scale Dragonfly Since You Went Away Betel Creek, Chinan Lakefront #2: Partita per Violoncello Pine Garden To the Tune “Behind the Soochow Curtain” Title Unknown Zuocang: Sakor Cloud Ship On Solitude Greece Discussing Poetry Writing with Someone Substance, Shadow, and Spirit Fern Songs Reading Dante at Year’s End Fluctuating Rhythm As Yet Unattained Written for a Meeting Lectures Variations on Zither Melodies No. 9 Listening to the Wind Autumn Preface to Manuscript in a Bottle Afterword to Someone: Poetry Is Written for People Afterword to Propositions of Temporality Afterword to Cycad Aulacaspis Scale Select Bibliography Translators

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.9.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• Zusatzinfo: no art
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54561-4 / 0231545614
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54561-7 / 9780231545617