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
WHITE LOTUS 白荷, color on silk, 38 × 40 cm, 1999 .........................Cover
BELL FLOWER 鐘花, color on silk, 40 × 38 cm, 1999 .............................................................Back Cover By CHIEN Mei-Yu 簡美育
Hsia Ching 夏菁
THE FALL OF A GREY WHALE —In Memory of the 20th Century
灰鯨落海 ──悼二十世紀*
Translated by C. W. WANG 王季文
A big bang following the mighty strike
In the boundless twilight of the Eve
The tail of the Twentieth Century, like
A grey whale falls back into the vast wave
Breaking billows splash in all directions
Like what happed in history: All commotions
Will soon return to serenity
Be it the trumpet of war and tragedy
An enduring romance in days of old
Or the groans of hunger and cold
The memory of human beings, you see
Is but an evening breeze over the sea
Now, all in all, we can only fix our sight
At a gleam of hope, in morn’s dawning light