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Notes of a Blissful Ghost

By Yang Lian
Translated by Brian Holton

2002
160 pages
ISBN 962-7255-25-4

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Table of Contents

Poetry and Exile
By Yang Lian
Translated by Eva Hung		 9
Translating Transgression
By Brian Holton		 11
The Landscape in the Room 26
Sky Burial 23
The Landscape in the Room 24
Mirror 25
The Last Room in Goya’s Life 26
A Girl Remembered 28
The Dead in Exile 29
1989 31
The Book of Exile 32
Banned Poem 33
The Dead in Exile 34
The City in Imagination 37
The Garden on a Winter’s Day 39
Grafton Bridge 42
War Memorial 43
The Lying Game 44
Cruel Children 45
Mother 46
The Foundations of Terror 47
A Castle on Paper 48
Survivors 49
Incident 50
CV of Hate 51
Blood Orange 52
Absolute Question 53
Summer’s One and Only Harbour 54
The Non-Personal Snow 55
Darknesses 63
Darknesses 65
House like Shadow 69
The Composer’s Tower 70
Stone on the Windowsill 73
Violence in the Forest 74
A Portrait’s Life 75
Biography 76
Pomegranates Denied 83
Purple 85
Absence 86
Perpendicular to the Paper 87
Bird Book 88
Snake Tree 89
Harvest 92
The Simplest Thing 93
University 94
Glassblower 95
Butterfly of Revenge 96
Brecht’s Last Question 97
Where the Sea Stands Still 99
Sixteeners 113
London 115
Water’s Return Journey 116
A Night in the Tower 117
Lento for the Sea 118
Sunset and Cold at Buchenwald 119
The Bright Ming Dynasty 120
Bodhi Tree 121
Form 122
Mediterranean 123
Light 124
Longhua Temple 125
Room by the Estuary 126
10 Years 127
12 Storkwinkel, Berlin 128
A Zurich Swan 129
Still 130
Them (feminine plural) 131
Entrance 132
Shadow Play 133
Father’s Blue & White Porcelain 134
The Garden on You 135
Retold Space 136
The Time That’s Left 137
Notes of a Blissful Ghost 139
A List of Works by Yang Lian 159