| Preface |
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| An Autobiographical Montage |
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| Early Lyrics |
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| One Generation |
| The Origin of Moon and Stars . Chimney |
| Nameless Flowers |
| A Fantasia to Life |
| An Ending |
| Developing |
| Shadow of Mountain |
| Ancient Site |
| Two Love Markets |
| A Snowman |
| At Parting |
Don't Say Anything Anymore, I'm not Going to
Give in |
| Here We Cannot Get to Know Each Other |
| Twittering and Chattering Stillness |
| A Stare |
| For My Reserved Master Hans Andersen |
| Martydom |
| The Cliffs |
| Huadiao's Apologia |
| Waterlands |
| A Small Lane |
| Child's Play |
| Near and Far |
| Rite |
| Thatches Hut |
| Arc |
| A Split Pair |
| Curriculum Vitae |
| To a Null Star |
| winter Day's Longing |
| By the Edge of the Dream Sea |
| Evasion |
| See You Again |
| Final Farewell to a Graveyard |
| Solace |
| New Year's Eve |
| Nostos I |
| Nostos II |
| Lacuna |
| The Land Rolls Off |
| Early Summer |
| Harvest |
| I'm an Obstinate Child |
| An Ancient War |
| My Graveyard |
| To My Deceased Grandmother |
| The Wind Stole Our Oar |
| In this Broad, Bright World |
| White Nights |
| A Yellow Mud Track in Winter |
| No More Goodbyes |
| Birthday |
| In the Calm Before the Storm |
| Antiphony of Ghostly Voices |
| I Can Breathe Like Green Grass |
| Ode to Spring |
| Overlapping Shadows |
| Sometimes I Really Wish |
| By the Door |
| Dream Garden |
| Old Times |
| The Coming |
| The Parted Sea |
| Images in Black and White |
| The Evening of Life |
| Pure Land |
| Poverty, the Tip of His Nose is Gold |
| Flowers of Morning |
| Confession |
| The Patterns of the Sea |
| Truly, This is the World |
| Distribution |
| Iron Bell |
| Stillness, a Man Falls from a Horse |
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| The Bulin File |
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| About Bulin |
| Bulin: Birth & Departure from the Country |
| Who'd Have Thought |
| Discovery |
| Bulin Met Bandit |
Bulin's Composition for the Professional Lullaby
Composers' Entrance Exam |
| Bulin's Speech to the Nursery Supreme Council |
| Bulin's Prayer: A Live Recording |
| The Bulin March |
| The Bulin Non-March |
| Agenda "0" |
| A Couplet |
| Bulin is Dead, It Seems |
| An Elegy |
| Bulin's Last Will & Testament |
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| A Eulogy World: A Poem Cycle |
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It is the Tree's Capacity to Swim |
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A Prompt |
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Childhood |
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Adolescence |
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Ark |
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Sketch on Demand |
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A Painting Inside a Snuff Bottle |
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Campaign |
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Blank TV Screen |
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I am Still Collecting Golden Pipe Tobacco |
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Uprising |
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Vehicle |
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Source |
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Book Cover |
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Words |
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Narrative |
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Self |
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Right there, in that Small Village |
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Accomplice |
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Mid-Month |
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Early Riser |
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Misfortune Arrives as Expected |
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After the Air Raid |
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River Mouth |
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The Season – Preserving Evening and Morning |
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Before Sleep |
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Primary School |
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Butterfly |
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Dirge |
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New Year's PAinting |
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Horned Toad |
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Ancient Days |
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Turning in |
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Blood Relations |
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A Pack of Wolves |
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Creditor's Rights |
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Nature |
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Handling the World |
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A Eulogy World |
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The Beginning of Troubled Times |
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Weekend |
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The Queen on the Coin |
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The Soul Lives in a Lonely House |
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Departure |
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Afternoon |
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And |
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Silver Jewels of the Afternoon |
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| Quicksliver: A Poem Cycle |
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Name |
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Eye |
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Bungalow |
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Stop |
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The Look of the Wind |
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Ink Brusk |
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REd Wine |
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Curtain Pull |
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Scarlet |
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Heap |
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Going to School |
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The Sky is There Above |
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Accident |
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Trap Door |
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Wicker Vat |
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A Peck |
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As Clear as Can Be |
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Aid |
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Table |
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Wish |
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When the Time Comes |
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Physiognomy of the Scholar in Sackcloth |
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Not Many Birds are Left in the Village |
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The Things We Write |
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Time |
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The One in the Sun |
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Man |
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Or |
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Quicksilver |
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Yeah |
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Edge |
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Homework |
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I Give You Each a Knife |
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Warm Day |
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Tenebrous |
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Home. Hom |
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Alumina |
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Smoking |
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Red Wheat |
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The Dharma Gate |
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Leo |
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Arrow |
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Telex |
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Thoroughfare |
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Solar Halo |
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Haldback |
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Deedledeedee |
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Lesser Spirit |
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| Misty MondÅ |
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| Afterword |
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| Translators |
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