Selected Poems

By Shu Ting
Edited by Eva Hung

1994
xii + 134 pages
ISBN 962-7255-14-9

Editor’s Preface	7
A Dialogue with Shu Ting and Chen Zhongyi	11

Gifts	17
A Boat with Two Masts	19
Goodbye in the Rain	20
A Boat	21
When You Walk Beneath My Window	22
To an Oak	24
Longing	26
Two, Maybe Three Different Memories	27
A roadside encounter	28
Perhaps	29
A Late Autumn Evening in Beijing	30
Assembly Line	33
Fallen Leaf	34
Homeward Bound	36
A Love Song for this Land	37
Brother, I’m Here	39
Evening Star	41
Evening Montage	44
The Singing Iris	48
Ah Min in the Café	58
In Memory of My Late Grandmother	60
Resurrection	61
Twelve Nights of the Milky Way (TV Poetry)	63
July That Year	85
End of Hibernation	87
… in between	89
A Letter to the Guitar Girl	91
In the Night-club	93
Husum Game Restaurant	94
Water Metasequoia	95
Death of the Monk	97
The Archaeopteryx	99
Autumn Thoughts	100
Derailed	102
The Sleeping Clock	103
Where the Soul Dwells	104
That Primary Colour	105
“Forget-me-not”	107
Goodbye, White Handkerchief	108
A Night at an Inn	110
Mirror	112
Waters of Green Lake	114
Sunset on White Creeper Lake	117
Curriculum Vitae	119
A Letter to Second Uncle	121
The Time of Power Failure	123
A Style of Playing	125
Reading at Night	127
The Age of Autumn	128

Chen Zhongyi: Afterword—Some Thoughts on Shu Ting’s Poetry	131
Translators	135

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