Autumn 2006
 
 

CONTENTS

 
  WATER’S SOURCE 水的歸屬
   By Wu Sheng 吳晟
   Translated by David van der Peet 范德培
 
  TIES THAT BIND 牽繫
   By LIN Tai Man 林黛嫚
   Translated by May Li-ming TANG 湯麗明
 
  A CULTURAL HEIRLOOM DEMOLISHED— CONTEMPLATING THE FUTURE OF THE CHINESE SCRIPT 被糟蹋了的文化瑰寶── 中華文字如何去從?
   By YEN Minju 顏敏如
   Translated by Chris Wen-Chao LI 李文肇
 
  WE WERE THERE THAT YEAR, AT THE FRONT IN KINMEN 那年,我們在金門前線
   By Husluman‧Vava 霍斯陸曼‧伐伐
   Translated by David van der Peet 范德培
 
  WHOOPING CRANE 鳴鶴
   By Hsia Ching 夏菁
   Translated by John J. S. BALCOM 陶忘機
 
  I ALWAYS WANT TO LET LOOSE 常常想放縱
   By Hsia Ching 夏菁
   Translated by John J. S. BALCOM 陶忘機
 
  WE ARE LAKES 我們是湖
   By Hsia Ching 夏菁
   Translated by John J. S. BALCOM 陶忘機
 
  TERRORIST ORGANIZATION 恐怖組織
   By Bai Ling 白靈
   Translated by John J. S. BALCOM 陶忘機
 
  LOOKING BACK AT DULAN MOUNTAIN FROM A DUGOUT CANOE 獨木舟上回頭看都蘭山
   By Bai Ling 白靈
   Translated by John J. S. BALCOM 陶忘機
 
  PORTRAIT OF A CAFÉ PUZZLE 咖啡館拼圖
   By FONG Ming 方明
   Translated by Yanwing LEUNG 梁欣榮
 
  THE TRAVELS AND LOVER OF A JUNIOR HIGH GIRL 國中女生的旅行與情人
   By Nina Wen-yin CHUNG 鍾文音
   Translated by Jonathan R. BARNARD 柏松年
 
  CITY OF DESIRE, DREAMS ALOFT—THE ART OF HUANG MING-CHE 慾望城市,夢想飛行── 藝術創作者黃銘哲
   By KUO Li-chuan 郭麗娟
   Translated by Paul FRANK
 
  HUANG MING-CHE : FROM CONSTRUCTION TO DECONSTRUCTION AND BACK TO CONSTRUCTION 從結構、解構,再結構的黃銘哲
   By Joseph WANG 王哲雄
 
  HUANG MING-CHE: A CHRONOLOGY 黃銘哲年表
   Translated by May Li-ming TANG 湯麗明
 
  NEWS & EVENTS 文化活動
   Compiled by Sarah Jen-hui HSIANG 項人慧
 
  NOTES ON AUTHORS AND TRANSLATORS
作者與譯者簡介
 
  APPENDIX: CHINESE ORIGINALS
附錄:中文原著
 
  DIALOGUE 對話, stove-enameled sheet metal,
.240 × 210 × 70 cm × 2, 1996-97...............COVER
 
  FACING REALITY SERIES 面對現實系列,
metal and oil on canvas
180 × 180 cm, 2003-04
..............................................................BACK COVER
   By QUO Ying Sheng 郭英聲

 


Bai Ling 白靈

TERRORIST ORGANIZATION
恐怖組織*

Translated by John J. S. BALCOM 陶忘機


The waterfall is the river’s
Terrorist organization
As the typhoon is the sea’s
Just as earthquakes and dinosaur fossils
Are the interior crust of the earth’s

A tiny tumor is the body’s
Terrorist organization
As invisible AIDS is that of lust
Just as Death, like a wave of your hand
Is the one that all of a sudden freezes time

Every approaching minute
Every letter that finds its way here
Turning around
Every expression is perhaps
An explosive terrorist organization

Like salt sinking back into the sea
And words fleeing back to the dictionary
I’d madly search amid the ashes
For the black box
Of our “mutual demise”

How can the nightmare be apprehended?
It falls repeatedly like a cliff toward me
       My terror
         Is indeed my
           Organization

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



From Bai Ling’s 白靈 Ai yu ssi te chien-hsi《愛與死的間隙》( The Gap between Love and Death ), Taipei : Chiuko Publishing, 2004.


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