Renditions—A Gateway to Chinese Literature and Culture

Selected Poems

By Yu Jian
Translated by Simon Patton and Naikan Tao

Table of contents

Introduction	7
A Note on the Source of the Poems	14
The Beer Bottle Top	16
Event•Digging	18
In Parise of Labour	21
Opus 49	22
Queen of the Northside Factories	24
Public Bath	27
A Stack of Oil-Drums near the Railway Line	29
Opus 51	30
Opus 52	32
For My Father	34
Mouse	39
Luo Jiasheng	42
Rivers	44
Distant Friend	45
To Have Friends Come from Afar	47
Opus 60	50
6 Shangyi Street	53
For Yao Fei	61
Down on the River Bank	63
Event•Birth	65
Opus 67	69
Running Between Horse	71
Eagle•A Second Poem	72
The Naming of a Crow	73
Bird Sheltering from Rain	80
Church Visit	81
Immanuel Kant	88
Speed	90
Yunnan Men	92
Maize Fields	93
The Grand Canyon of North-East Yunnan	95
Qingbi Creek, Mount Cang	96
Thank You, Father	98
To a Friend	101
Editing the China New Poem Almanac One Winter	102
Event•Writing	103
Goldfish	106
Vincent van Gogh	109
Dusk	112
Threshing	113
Event•Death of a Palm Tree	114
Opus 104	121
He Came to Pick Me Up in His Black Car ...	122
A Nail Piercing the Sky	123
Sunday in Cuihu Park	124
Notes on Translators	132
Selected Bibliography	133