The Edge of the Island

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Contents

011 Translator’s Introduction

Ⅰ Poems 1974-1989
027 An Impression of the Sea
028 My Mistress
029 How I Photographed for Playboy
031 A Handbook to Prisoners
032 Footprints in the Snow
033 Dancers of Delphi
034 The Lover of the Magician’s Wife
035 Animal Lullaby
037 Love Song
038 Among School Children
040 A Love Poem
041 The Love Song of Buffet the Clown
043 A Sudden Shower
044 In a City Alarmed by a Series of Earthquakes
045 The Seaside Classroom
046 The Dancer in the Kitchen
048 In the Poorest County of Ours
049 The Last Wang Mu-Qi
058 Rainstorm
060 Song of Big Wind
062 Shadow Fighters
063 Imitation of Atayal Folk Song
065 The Distant Mountain
066 Listening to Winterreise on a Spring Night
068 Green Onions
070 February
071 Merry-Go-Round
073 Buffalo
076 Autocracy
077 Taroko Gorge, 1989

Ⅱ Poems 1990-2000
087 Postcards for Messiaen
089 Traveling in the Family (4 selections)
093 The Wall
094 An Intimate Letter
095 A Dog Barking at the Moon
096 An Encounter
097 The River of Shadows
098 The Magician
100 Spring
101 The Bladder
102 An Open Cage
104 Souvenir-Photo: Statues of the Bunun
106 A Vending Machine for Nostalgic Nihilists
107 The Edge of the Island
109 50 Poems from Microcosmos I
118 Autumn Song
119 A Cup of Tea
121 Morning Blue
122 Nocturnal Fish
123 The Autumn Wind Blows
126 A Lesson in Ventriloquy
127 The Image Hunter
129 The Ropewalker
131 Formosa, 1661
134 The Olympic
136 Small Town
138 A War Symphony
140 Furniture Music
141 A Prayer of Gears
143 Three Poems in Search of the Composer/Singer
146 Old Snow
148 Butterfly Air
150 Night Song
152 Tunnel
153 The Cat at the Mirror
154 Short Ride in a Fast Machine
155 Music
156 Composition
157 Gliding Exercises
159 Tango for the Jealous
160 Sonnets
162 On the Island
166 Aria on the Coast

Ⅲ Poems 2000-2013
169 Foil Carton
170 Photo of Egyptian Scenery in the Dream of a Fire Department
Captain
171 Breakfast Tablecloth of a Solitary Entomologist
173 In the Corners of Our Lives
174 Reading Huang Ting-Jian at the Turn of the Century
176 Kubla Khan
177 Wooden Fish Ballad
180 Butterfly-Mad
181 Petty Deaths
183 The Tongue
184 Night Song
185 Autumn Sonata
186 On the Island—based on Yami myths
188 A Serial Novel: Huang Chao Killed Eight Million People
190 Poem Gained in Dream at a Hotel in Winter
192 33 Poems from MicrocosmosⅡ
197 Adagio
199 Song of the Insomnia Girl
200 Song of the Somnambulist Girl
201 White
202 Slow City
203 Pian Pian
204 Fragments
205 Simple Sacred Songs
207 Santiago, 1626
209 Santo Domingo, 1638
212 Sinckan, 1660
215 The Guts of the Tribe
217 18 Touches
218 “The Love Poem” Renewed
219 Seven “Half-Automatic” Poems
221 Pilgrim
222 Mechanics
223 Chin Dynasty
224 Saint Antony Preaching to the Fish
226 Saint in the Kitchen
227 The North
228 Eight Hands
229 13-Line Poems: Winter Songs (4 selections)

Appendix
233 Traveling Between Languages
247 Translator’s Notes
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目　錄:
Contents

011 Translator’s Introduction

Ⅰ Poems 1974-1989
027 An Impression of the Sea
028 My Mistress
029 How I Photographed for Playboy
031 A Handbook to Prisoners
032 Footprints in the Snow
033 Dancers of Delphi
034 The Lover of the Magician’s Wife
035 Animal Lullaby
037 Love Song
038 Among School Children
040 A Love Poem
041 The Love Song of Buffet the Clown
043 A Sudden Shower
044 In a City Alarmed by a Series...