New Generation: Poems from China Today Book

	Introduction	12
	Preface	21
	Hand-copied Paperback	35
	Snow-Covered Sun	43
	Finally	45
	The Vast Land	49
	When We Walked into the City	50
	You Come from Far Away	51
	The Cold Spirit of Snow	52
	The Last Bottle of Good Wine	53
	Missing the Encounter	54
	Spring That Is Beyond Definition	55
	High Land	56
	Under a Tree	57
	Flowing Water	58
	The Past Is a Cup from My People	59
	Edge	63
	Black Rails	66
	Scene A	67
	Individual	71
	Since the Creation of Words	72
	Permission	74
	Mayfly's Journal	77
	Autograph Book	80
	As I Search for a Language	83
	To Poets	86
	Exile Admonition	95
	This Age Has TB	96
	A World	97
	Settling	98
	From "Words and Objects"	101
	The Sound of Chopping Wood	102
	Stuck in Place	103
	Coins Flung in Four Directions	104
	Young Prophet	105
	This Is Not the Last	106
	Betrayal	109
	Gluttonous and Hungry	111
	Sold Out	112
	Just Call Me by My Nickname	115
	Black Night	116
	Iron	119
	Words	120
	Railway Station	121
	Syntax	125
	Of Flesh and Spirit	126
	Crossing Essex	128
	No Sense of Direction	130
	From "The String of Beads, Fate"	135
	Tibet	137
	For Haizi	143
	Books	145
	Birds	147
	Bats in the Twilight	149
	Interplay	153
	The Passage to Heaven	154
	Nostalgia	155
	From Serial Poetic	159
	When the Train Crossed the Yellow River	167
	Neighbors	168
	That Year	169
	The North Wind Was Blowing	171
	I Write What History Cannot Write	172
	This Fall This Year	173
	In Praise of Work	177
	The Fence	178
	I Overheard Them Talking about the Source of the Pearl River	179
	Power Outage	180
	Thank You, Father	183
	Mouse	186
	From "The Brown Notebook: Rejecting Metaphor"	188
	Cafe Song	191
	Proof	196
	End	197
	Raindrop	201
	Chinese Honey	202
	Poetry	207
	Revolution	208
	Hidden Arc	213
	Doubt	214
	Punctual Arrival	215
	To Autumn	219
	Poem	221
	The Meridian Gate	225
	The Wheat Reaper	226
	To Die in a Sitting Position	227
	Burning the Red Soil	229
	The Well of Imperial Concubine Zhen	230
	What's in My Heart	231
	Old Bowl	232
	Notes on the Translators	233