Hawk of the Mind: Collected Poems

203 Pages·2018·0.75 MB·English

by  Yang Mu

HAWK OF THE MIND
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HAWK OF THE MIND
COLLECTED POEMS
YANG MU
EDITED BY MICHELLE YEH
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Poems
The Star Is the Only Guide 1
Water’s Edge
To Time
Fragment
Folding Screen
A Sequel to Han Yu’s “Mountain Rocks,” a Seven-Character Poem in
the Old Style
Snake: A Rondo
Jizi of Yanling Hangs Up His Sword
King Wu’s Night Encampment: A Suite
Etudes: The Twelve Earthly Branches
Sailing to Ireland
Ireland
Let the Wind Recite
Manuscript in a Bottle
Lines of the Hand
Bring You Home to Hualian
Solitude
Forbidden Games 1
Paddy Field Region
Light Rain
To the Ancient
Minor Realization
Sonnet: The Travelers
Tree in the College
Looking Down
Someone Asks Me a Question About Justice and Righteousness
Tree
Miaoyu Sits in Meditation
Departing the Grasslands
Sonnets on The Book of Changes
Leaving a Banquet Early in Summer Heat
Lama Reincarnated
Village Sonnets
In Lieu of a Letter
Fable Number 2: Yellow Sparrow
Variation on “A Traveler’s Heart”
Hawk of the Mind
Remembering Berkeley
Written on Returning to the Northwest
Dusk from an Upper Floor
Episodic Capriccio for Solo
Six Quatrains, Written in Fun
Propositions of Temporality
Chang’an
A Lyric
To the Angel
Afternoon of a Gladiolus
Lakeview
Tale (In the meter of “Metamorphosis Two” by Philip Glass)
Bohori (Khabarovsk, 1994)
Midnight
Solitude. 1910
St. Petersburg
Grain Buds
Ars Poetica
Gazing Up
New Songs
Symbol
A Flurry of Snow
Seven Stars Bay
The Previous Life
Under the Pine
Rabbits
Rays of the Fading Sun
The Vacated Seat
Portrait of a Lady
Song of Floss Flower
Composed for the Lyrical Oboe
Subject
Misimpression
Pheasant
A Draw in a Game of Chess
The Water Nymph
Pindar’s Ode
Fallen Leaves
The Lost Ring—for Chechnya
Written at Daybreak
No Time Difference
Ancient Banyan Tree in Tainan
The Rite of Passage
Ziye Extemporizes in Song
War
Forgotten
The Heart Wavers
Substitution
Untitled 1
Untitled 2
The Fog and My Other Self
Cycad Aulacaspis Scale
Dragonfly
Since You Went Away
Betel Creek, Chinan Lakefront #2: Partita per Violoncello
Pine Garden
To the Tune “Behind the Soochow Curtain”
Title Unknown
Zuocang: Sakor
Cloud Ship
On Solitude
Greece
Discussing Poetry Writing with Someone
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit
Fern Songs
Reading Dante at Year’s End
Fluctuating Rhythm
As Yet Unattained
Written for a Meeting
Lectures
Variations on Zither Melodies No. 9
Listening to the Wind
Autumn
Preface to Manuscript in a Bottle
Afterword to Someone: Poetry Is Written for People
Afterword to Propositions of Temporality
Afterword to Cycad Aulacaspis Scale
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