IN THE MOUNTAINS NEAR AT HAND 在很近的山裡


	Summer 2006

CONTENTS

	ABYSS 深淵 By Ya Hsien 瘂弦 Translated by John J. S. BALCOM 陶忘機

	AUTUMN CHANT–Dedicated to Warmth 秋歌──給暖暖 By Ya Hsien 瘂弦 Translated by Zona Yi-Ping TSOU 鄒怡平

	AND ALL THE SWEAT IS LEFT THERE 汗都被留在那裡了 By Ye Mimi 葉覓覓 Translated by Steve BRADBURY 柏艾格

	IN THE MOUNTAINS NEAR AT HAND 在很近的山裡 By Ye Mimi 葉覓覓 Translated by Steve BRADBURY 柏艾格

	A By LIN Wen-yueh 林文月 Translated by Shou-Fang HU-MOORE 胡守芳

	BOTH BOAST OF BEAUTY 都是美 By CHEN Tzu-yen 陳祖彥 Translated by LEE Yen-fen 李燕芬

	POSTCARDS AND NOSTALGIA : DISCOVERING AN AGE THROUGH ITS IMAGES: QUO YING SHENG’S LATEST WORK Mother－The Vistas of My Memory 母親‧與我記憶中的風景 Translated by David van der Peet 范德培

	A CLOUD APPEARING ABOVE THE PEAKS: THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ART OF QUO YING SHENG 這片出岫的雲 By Michel MAINGOIS Condensed and translated from French to Chinese by CHANG Chi-kao 張繼高 Translated to English from Chinese by David van der Peet 范德培

	PASSION WAITING TO BE RELEASED 期待熱情出寂境 By LIN Hwai-min 林懷民 Translated by David van der Peet 范德培

	QUO YING SHENG: A CHRONOLOGY 郭英聲年表 Translated by David van der Peet 范德培

	BUILDING A NEST IN A NEW LOCATION 巢渡 By CHANG Ying-tai 張瀛太 Translated by David and Ellen DETERDING 戴德巍與陳艷玲

	NEWS & EVENTS 文化活動 Compiled by Sarah Jen-hui HSIANG 項人慧

	NEW BOOKS BY OUR MEMBERS 會員新書

	NOTES ON AUTHORS AND TRANSLATORS 作者與譯者簡介

	APPENDIX: CHINESE ORIGINALS 附錄：中文原著

	AFTER THE SACRIFICIAL OFFERING 祭祀後, India, 1981........................................................COVER

	Tunisia, 1977 .......................................BACK COVER By QUO Ying Sheng 郭英聲

Ye Mimi 葉覓覓

IN THE MOUNTAINS NEAR AT HAND
在很近的山裡*

translated by Steve BRADBURY 柏艾格

We identify the plants, in the mountains near at hand.
The cigar grass and the pencil-box tree, the airy songs of the
birds and
sinking lake. The road is quadrangular,
we also sport our floppy hats, to ward off the hard
sun.
When the empty pen and paper squeeze their way among the
trees,
the sublime becomes a kind, green.
The names of all the flowers and grassy plants begin to glimmer,
but as we climb are soon snuffed out.
“Sniff and see,” he says.
In a torn leaf a single pupil
burns, burning our interminable hunger.

In the mountains near at hand,
we identify the plants, moreover eat as many as we
can. The mountain heights are quadrangular too.

*	From Ye Mimi’s 葉覓覓 Chi-hei《漆黑》(Pitch Dark), Taipei: Tonsan Publications, 2004.