From the bluest part of the harbour_图书大全
From the bluest part of the harbour
副标题: Poems from Hong Kong
ISBN: 9780195867862
出版社: Oxford University Press
出版年: 1995
页数: 168
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
Editor：Andrew Parkin
Selected poets: Chan Tak-kam, Juliette Chan, Chung Wai-man, Louise Ho, Leung Ping-kwan, Laurence Wong, Wong Leung-wo, Woo Kwok-yin, Wu Xubin, Yu Kwang-chung, Yuen Che-hung.
This collection of contemporary Hong Kong poems -- most published here in English for the first time -- reveals the heart of a city on the edge of a dramatic change of identity. Lyrical and poignant, the poems reflect the heightened emotions and apprehensions of the Hong Kong people as China's takeover nears.
Writing in free verse that breaks with traditional Chinese form, the twelve modern poets retains links with the past, sometimes alluding through subject, diction, and imagery to the Chinese poetic tradition. Some of the poets express a longing for China as a homeland, while others draw on Chinese myth and folk-tales to reflect on the universal themes of reincarnation, life and death, and the passage of time. Whether describing the vibrancy of Hong Kong life, examining the effects of the Tiana nmen Square incident, or reflecting on love and society, each poet brings to life some part of the Hong Kong character.
Content:
Poets and Translators
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Mountain Rain / Yu Kwang-chung 3
Waiting in the Rain / Yu Kwang-chung 4
White Jade Bitter Gourd / Yu Kwang-chung 6
The Kowloon - Canton Railway / Yu Kwang-chung 8
When I Am Dead / Yu Kwang-chung 9
The Mirror / Yu Kwang-chung 10
The Crystal Prison / Yu Kwang-chung 11
A Letter through the Rain / Yu Kwang-chung 13
Once Upon a Candle / Yu Kwang-chung 14
The Umbrellas / Yu Kwang-chung 15
The Pearl Necklace / Yu Kwang-chung 16
Mother, I'm Hungry / Yu Kwang-chung 17
Two Poems on Vincent Van Gogh / Yu Kwang-chung 18
At West Lake / Leung Ping-kwan 22
Seagulls of Kunming: the 1940s and the 1980s / Leung Ping-kwan 24
Mirror Lake / Leung Ping-kwan 26
White Sun / Leung Ping-kwan 27
Cloud Travel / Leung Ping-kwan 28
Journey into the Painting Hua Shan / Leung Ping-kwan 32
Morning in a Foreign Land / Leung Ping-kwan 34
In Fabric Alley / Leung Ping-kwan 36
The Clogs / Leung Ping-kwan 38
Images of Hong Kong / Leung Ping-kwan 39
The Leaf on the Edge / Leung Ping-kwan 41
Distinguished Leaves / Leung Ping-kwan 42
Stainings / Leung Ping-kwan 43
If I Should Die / Woo Kwok-yin 46
Before the Gust Arrives / Woo Kwok-yin 48
Chrysanthemum / Woo Kwok-yin 49
Lest I Should Fall Asleep Before Dawn / Woo Kwok-yin 50
Retreating Landscapes / Yuen Che-hung 54
Grandma is Dead / Yuen Che-hung 55
Unfinished Poems / Yuen Che-hung 58
The River's Rebirth / Yuen Che-hung 59
The Leader Cadre / Yuen Che-hung 60
To My Uncle Who Killed Himself / Yuen Che-hung 61
Quiet Noises / Yuen Che-hung 62
Tai Po Mei / Juliette Chen 64
Face / Juliette Chen 66
Dinner with an Eligible Bachelor / Juliette Chen 68
Night Folk / Juliette Chen 70
The Weather is Gothic / Juliette Chen 71
Spare Parts / Juliette Chen 72
Plaint for a Lost Love / Juliette Chen 73
A Reply / Juliette Chen 75
Journey / Juliette Chen 77
Just Stand There Long Enough / Laurence Wong 80
Discourse from an Immortal / Laurence Wong 81
Gazing at the South / Laurence Wong 82
A Meteorological Prophecy / Laurence Wong 83
Crossing the River / Laurence Wong 84
Autumn Thoughts / Laurence Wong 86
There Was Such a Morning / Laurence Wong 88
Spring / Laurence Wong 89
The Shattered Cliff / Laurence Wong 90
Great Cold / Laurence Wong 91
City / Louise Ho 94
Time's Pummelling / Louise Ho 95
Jet-lagged in Boston / Louise Ho 96
Jade / Louise Ho 97
To Grandfather / Louise Ho 98
Things Pentecostal / Louise Ho 99
Tombed-in / Louise Ho 100
Image / Louise Ho 101
Raw / Louise Ho 102
Prose Poem / Louise Ho 103
Well-spoken Cantonese / Louise Ho 104
New Year's Eve, 1989 / Louise Ho 105
The Sea / Wu Xubin 110
Porcelain Fragments / Chung Wai-man 114
Three Lives / Chung Wai-man 117
The Sunflower's Soliloquy / Chan Tak-kam 124
Hawk / Chan Tak-kam 125
Homecoming / Chan Tak-kam 126
Before Execution / Wong Leung-wo 128
Pomelo Lantern / Wong Leung-wo 130
Peeling the Pomelo / Wong Leung-wo 132
Green Pomelo / Wong Leung-wo 134
The Lone Eye / Ng Mei-kwan 138
The Blood Path / Ng Mei-kwan 140
Calling Spirits Up / Ng Mei-kwan 144
