節錄自"第一人稱"

Hsia Yü is the author and designer of seven volumes of ground-breaking verse, most recently a book-length, bilingual visual poem with the appellation First Person, as in the phrase “first-person narrative.” Inspired by the principle of “fuzzy logic” and constructed in the manner of a bound collection of movie stills, this stunningly beautiful volume includes some 400 blurry photographs the author took with a cheap digital camera during an extended stay in Paris, one photograph per page, each captioned by a single line of verse that plays out or exemplifies implications of the word “estrangement” (e.g., strange, stranger, other, alienation, parting, withdrawal, separation, schism, division, death, etc.). Other themes and key terms include poetry, pictographs, layers of metonymy, and the notion of symbolic disaster. She lives in Taipei, where she co-edits a journal of avant-garde writing known in English as Poetry Now.

Steve Bradbury translates the work of contemporary poets writing in Chinese. His most recent book-length translation, Hsia Yü’s Salsa (Zephyr Press, 2014), was short-listed for the Lucien Stryk Prize. His current project, a translation of Hsia Yü’s Poems, Sixty of Them (2011), received an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship last summer.