Stars, Stars, and More Stars

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements xi
4. Written with People in Mind 1
5. A Poem Is a Cat in One's Mind 7
6. Yang Mu and Lo Ch’ing: A Profile 11
7. Forbidden Games: The Poetry of Yang Mu
8. From Taiwan to Iowa
9. From the Preface to From Ritual to Allegory 20
10. The News 23
11. The River's Edge 25
12. When the Wind Comes Up 27
13. The Town Where You Live 29
14. A Ranch in the Rain 31
15. In the Cornfields of the Dark Night 33
16. April 2: With Yu Kwang-chung Watching the Michigan Snow Melt 37
17. Berkeley and Beyond
18. From "The Weniad" 42
19. King Wu's Encampment: A Suite of Songs 45
20. Continuing Han Yü's "Mountain Stones” 49
21. From "Bring on the Wine" (1 and 4) 53
22. Surprise Lilies 57
23. The Wind Rolls through the Snowy Woods 59
24. Summertime 61
25. From "A Set of Fourteen Sonnets" (1 and 2) 63
26. Six Songs to the Tune "Partridge Skies" 67
27. An Autumnal Prayer to Tu Fu 75
28. Taiwan Again
29. From "The Bird as Messenger of Love in Allegorical Poetry" 78
30. A Love Poem 81
31. Kaohsiung, 1973 85
32. What Is in Your Heart 89
33. A Stand of Reeds 93
34. Solitude 99
35. A Stand of Rice 101
36. Zeelandia 105
37. Europe
38. From "Naming the Reality of Chinese Criticism" 112
39. Cicada 115
40. Forbidden Game 1 119
41. Forbidden Game 2 123
42. Forbidden Game 3 129
43. Forbidden Game 4 135
44. On the Death of a Professor of British Literature 141
45. The Panjshir Valley 143
46. From "Nine Arguments" 147
47. In the Kuroshio Current
48. From "The Nature of Narrative in T'ang Poetry" 152
49. Conversation Class 155
50. The International Dateline Concerto 157
51. From " Fourteen Sonnets for Ming-ming" 173
52. Moon over Pass Mountain 177
53. Gazing Down 181
54. Song of Yesterday's Snow 187
55. Spring Song 193
56. Someone Asked Me about Truth and Justice 197
57. Video Poems: The Poetry of Lo Ch’ing
58. The Childlike Mind
59. Saddle Vine 213
60. The Rice Song 215
61. Bizarre Manifestations of the Dharma 217
62. On the Way of Snowy Nights 227
63. A Silent Prayer 229
64. Don't Read This 233
65. Rising 235
66. The Little Commander of Donkeys 237
67. Ant 241
68. Stars, Stars, and More Stars 245
69. Fluorescent Lights 247
70. A Life Sketch 249
71. Love and Death
72. Means of Revenge 253
73. The Way 261
74. Needlework 263
75. The House 267
76. The Avenging Ghost 273
77. Self-Sacrifice 277
78. The Sound of a Motor Coming from Afar 279
79. Bitter Tea 281
80. Heaven's Revenge 285
81. Heroes in the Aftermath 289
82. Ars Poetica
83. Not to Keep Any thing from You 293
84. Ode to the Southwest Wind 297
85. Found by the Pool 301
86. The Game of Go, Black Pieces 303
87. Reading Paintings in the Cloud-Nourishing Studio 307
88. Book Burning 311
89. Protest Posters 315
90. The Hand of the Lone Dragon Slayer 317
91. Hey, What's Up? 321
92. Transformations
93. On Piscine Metamorphosis 323
94. Two Trees 329
95. The Imperial Annals of the Water Buffalo 331
96. Raking Leaves 333
97. The Painting "Listening to the Brook" 337
98. Into Autumn: Eighteen Lines 341
99. Metamorphosis 343
100. A Night on Mount Pleiades 345
101. The Invisible Man 347
102. Sighs of Complaint 349
103. The Moon in the Pines 351
104. Art Appreciation 353
105. Near Postmodern
106. Near Postmodern 355
107. Six Ways to Eat a Watermelon 357
108. The Ladder 363
109. Waking the Sleeping Dragon 365
110. The Teacup Theorems 369
111. Sunrise 375
112. Once More Looking out at the Deep Blue Sea after Looking out at the Deep Blue Sea Many Times Before 377
113. Syllygisms 381
114. So Grows the Mountain 389
115. A Good-bye Epistle about Good-bye 391
116. Translator's Notes 395
117. Density and Lucidity. The Poetics of Yang Mu andLo Ch’ing 400
118. Sources 429
119. Bibliography of Selected Works by Yang Mu and Lo Ch’ing 431
120. About the Authors 435