I TOLD YOU BEFORE 我告訴過你


	Spring 2007

CONTENTS

	SEPARATION AND INTEGRATION : TOWARDS A COMMUNION OF CHINESE MINDS AND HEARTS 離心與向心：眾圓同心 By YU Kwang-chung 余光中

	FIRST SNOW OF A RIVER TRIP 江行初雪 By LI Yue 李渝 Translated by Yingtsih HWANG 黃瑛姿

	NOT A DREAM 不是一夢 By Ai Ya 愛亞 Translated by David van der Peet 范德培

	BEST OF BOTH WORLDS : WISTERIA TEA HOUSE AND STARBUCKS 在紫藤廬與Starbucks 之間 By LUNG Yingtai 龍應台 Translated by Darryl STERK 石岱崙

	THE ORCHID CACTUS LOOKS OUT AT THE SEA 曇花看海 By CHEN Yu-hong 陳育虹 Translated by Karen Steffen CHUNG 史嘉琳

	I TOLD YOU BEFORE 我告訴過你 By CHEN Yu-hong 陳育虹 Translated by Karen Steffen CHUNG 史嘉琳

	RAMBLIN’ ROSE 流浪玫瑰 By Du Yeh 渡也 Translated by John J. S. BALCOM 陶忘機

	A MING DYNASTY INCENSE BURNER 宣德香爐 By Du Yeh 渡也 Translated by John J. S. BALCOM 陶忘機

	SELLING OFF THE LAND OF DREAMS 變賣夢土 By Chan Cher 詹澈 Translated by John J. S. BALCOM 陶忘機

	SHORT ACQUAINTANCE ; LONG MEMORIES — A RETROSPECTIVE ON CHEN CHI-MAO 「版畫史」誕生在最後的「裝置」裡—— 陳其茂紀念集序 By SHAIH Lifa 謝里法 Translated by TING Chen-wan 丁貞婉

	PASTORAL SONGS ; POETICAL SENTIMENTS— CHEN CHI-MAO’S CREATIVE ART 牧歌‧詩情——試論陳其茂的藝術創作 By CHEN Shuh-sheng 陳樹升 Translated by TING Chen-wan 丁貞婉

	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

	THE MONKEYS IN THE WOODEN HOUSE 木屋裡的猴子, woodcut, 79 × 79 cm, 1975 ............................COVER

	A GIRL SLEEPING ON THE RED WALL 石牆上的睡女, woodcut, 53 × 32 cm, 1985.................BACK COVER By CHEN Chi-Mao 陳其茂

CHEN Yu-hong 陳育虹

I TOLD YOU BEFORE
我告訴過你*

Translated by Karen Steffen CHUNG 史嘉琳

I told you before my forehead my hair miss you
because the clouds comb each other in the sky my neck my
    earlobes miss you
because of the idle worry of the lane with the suspended
    bridge and the alley with the grass bridge because of
    the unaccompanied Bach slipping silently into the
    river outside the city
my eyes my wanderer eyes miss you because the sparrows
    on the parasol tree have all glided down to earth
    because of the shattered glass of the wind

Because of the wall between the days I tell you that my
    pores that long to sleep miss you
my ribs miss you my moonlit arms turned into wisteria of
    the Tang dynasty in full bloom miss you too
I am sure I have told you my lips because of a cup of burning
    hot coffee my fingertips because of the perplexity
    of a night of revolving horse lamps because of a sky
    spread over with blue cashmere
I can’t bear to let you go

*	From Chen Yu-hong’s 陳育虹Mei 《魅》[Bewitched], Taipei: Aquarius Publishing Co., 2007.