CONTENTS

Foreword: George O’Connell

HALF-LIGHT (2022)

Here
Akhmatova Town
Mammogram
French Gender
Che (1928–1967)
Still Lifes, Syria
Exiled Immortal
Little Zagastai Lake
Moltings
Greeting
Buddhist Pine
Seagull Poetics
Obsidian
Silvergrass
Consultation
Walling
Slant
Geometry

TRANCE (2016)

Dragonfly Fugue
That Day, Fog
Everywhere
In Search of You
Nest Building
Won’t Forget
In Darío’s Homeland
Sunday
On the Mediterranean

IN BETWEEN (2011)

May the Rain
Pharaoh
Cherry Blossom Sonnet
Change of Season
Small Town
Cape Jasmine
White Rose

BEWITCHED (2007)

Water, Snake
Night Calligraphy
Crossing the Tanggula
Naked Sky
Good Morning Melancholy
Interweave
Longing
Dusk
Tanbur
From Double Seventh to Double Seventh

A RIVER FLOWS DEEP IN YOUR VEINS (2002)

Pear and Solitude
Mountain Bird
Earth’s Core
Thin Hill Cherry
White Moth Orchid
Exchange
Insomnia
Necessities
I Know You’re by the Lake
Erasure
Hourglass

IN TRUTH THE OCEAN (1999)

When Snow Falls
Inkstone
Observation
Cicada
In Truth the Ocean

SUPPLEMENT
From Passages: Thirteen Contemporary Taiwan Poets (2022)

Journey (A River Flows Deep in Your Veins)
Ghost Moon (Trance)
Foreign Realms (In Between)
Elegy, the Whirl (Trance)
Autumn Cicada (A River Flows Deep in Your Veins)
Genesis (In Between)
As If Sleeping (Trance)
Impression (Trance)
Fatal God (Trance)
The Soul as Gardenia (Trance)
Floral Requiem (In Truth the Ocean)
Streetlight (In Truth the Ocean)
Rose Bouquet (Trance)
Taiwan Cherry Tree (Trance)

Notes
Acknowledgements

For a selection of Chen Yuhong’s poems, see Pangolin House Winter 2017-18

陳育虹詩選譯見《Pangolin House》2017-18冬季刊