“Alive, bound within the space of here and now,
A second is all too short a sojourn.”
Everything that has a beginning has an end.
Yet, poets show us that imagination has no limits.
Since the appearance of Limits End: Selected Poems of Bai Chuan II (《有限無:白川詩選二》) in its original native language, there has been a demand for a serious attempt to transform its international outlook into an international readership. In response to this, the present English edition offers not a slavish translation. Instead, there is perhaps a true sense of creative effort, to say nothing of the venture itself being a rich and rewarding experience.
Bai Chuan
As a supporter of free verse since childhood, Bai Chuan’s translation is a product of the imagination as well as many years of hard work.
Publications of Bai Chuan
- 目錄
- PART ONE A Limit to Love/Hate?
- Night and the Rose
- Within the Picture
- The Haven of the Heart
- Response to When Loving You Is Enshrined
- Your Heart, My Heart
- Ru-ping, Ru-ping
- Who’s Sanctioned the Cuts
- Hong Kong Geological Park
- Shangri-La
- EP, Environmental Protection
- A Millennium of Li Bai
- PART TWO Elastic World
- Roma, Roma
- Xian, Chang-an
- Time, Space
- Eternity in A Second
- The Miniskirt
- Count One, Two, Three, Four
- Marathon
- Sri Lanka
- The Ancestral Shrine
- Dream
- Sculpture
- The Buccaneer
- PART THREE Animate and Inanimate
- The Shark
- The Tamer, the Predator
- Silica, Silica
- Life Fragile
- Water Against Rock
- A Piece of Pastry
- Broken Steps
- Ugly Duckling
- The Lizard
- Mass Media
- Speech, Writing
- The King, the Protagonist, the Magician
- PART FOUR Loci in History
- The Great Wall—A Trilogy
- First
- Second
- Third
- Lunar Exploration
- Extraterrestrial Life
- Eve of the World Cup Final—A Trilogy
- First
- Second
- Third
- Napoleon and Corsica—A Duo
- First
- Second
- The Berlin Wall—20th Anniversary of Its Fall
- The Great Wall—A Trilogy
- PART ONE A Limit to Love/Hate?