Renditions—A Gateway to Chinese Literature and Culture

Selected Poems

By Xu Zhimo
Edited by Mary M. Y. Fung
Translated by Mary M. Y. Fung and David Lunde

Table of contents

Introduction	9
*Poems of Zhimo*
Elegy for Katherine Mansfield	24
A Grey and Gloomy Life	26
On Hearing the Chant of Penitential Offering at Tianning Temple in Changzhou	28
Serves You Right, Beggar!	31
Cover It with Oil Paper	32
This Strange World	34
Sayonara—To a Japanese Maiden	35
The Poison	36
Who Knows	38
Calvary	40
In Search of a Bright Star	43
The Signal	44
The Joy of a Snowflake	45
This Is a Coward's World	46
Untitled	48
A Song of Dead Leaves	50
*A Night in Florence*
Susie	52
A Night in Florence	53
Rhymes of the Sea	56
Let Us Build a Wall	58
It Is Not Easy to Live These Days	59
Ding-Dong—Loud and Clear	60
Late at Night off Dagu Port on March	61
Plum Blossom and Snow Vie for Spring (Commemorating the May 18 Incident)	62
Another Experiment	63
A Pipa Tune in an Alley at Midnight	64
By Chance	65
The Marshall (Battle Song I)	66
Human Beings Transformed to Animals (Battle Song II)	68
The Last Day	69
*Tiger, Tiger*
Cricket	72
Thomas Hardy	73
I Don't Know Which Way the Wind Blows	75
Life	76
Who Is to Blame?	77
By the Side of an Unknown Road (India)	78
You Are in His Eyes	79
Second Farewell to Cambridge	80
Dedication	82
I Am Waiting for You	83
The Yellow Oriole	86
Seasons	87
In the Mountains	88
Mount Tai	89
The Expansive Sea	90
*Roaming in the Clouds*
Roaming in the Clouds	92
Love's Inspiration—For Hu Shi	93
In Sickness	107
The Train Grabbing the Rails	109
You Go	111
Notes on Translators	112
Selected Bibliography	113
Appendix I: Preface to A Night in Florence	115
Appendix II: Preface to Tiger, Tiger	117
Appendix III: Preface to Roaming in the Clouds	123