Hong Kong International Poetry Night Special Issue, Issue 79

Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine No. 79 Special Issue - International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong

BEI DAO
FOREWORD: Sidetracks: Prologue

ADONIS
Between Your Eyes and Mine
Seven Days
True Beginning of Poetry
I Said unto You
A Homeland
King of the Winds
To Sisyphus
I Imagine My Love
How Can I Call What Is between Us a Past?

WILL ALEXANDER Will Alexander
Visitation As Centigrade／Our Lady’s visit is as warm as warmth
Possible Philosophical Fragment
Hieratic Oasis That Magnefies and Attracts
Chronic Ecclesiastical Climate
Fragment
Fragment II

FRANK BÁEZ
Brief Conversation with the Caribbean Sea
Twelve Strophes for Giselle
Vase
Last Night I Dreamt I Was a DJ

CHEN XIANFA
Seen in a Painting
The Study of Logic from Dharma to Hui-Neng
The Question of Raising Cranes
Ode to a Withered Tree
The Unspeakable Body
Cliffside Account
A Year in Passing

MATTHEW CHING-HANG CHENG
At the corner someone plays piano in the night
Soul Music Concert
Riverbank
Gingkoes
Oakland Cemetary
Ana Mendieta
God and Rabbit

DANIELA DANZ Daniela Danz
Masada
Night tips into the dim room
Icon
Come wilderness into our homes
Cascade of Joy
Cascade of Forgetting
Cascade of Anger

JIANG TAO
Convalescent Associations
One Afternoon When I Was a Lecturer
A Day in the Cave
Things That Travel by Night
Summit

LESLEY HARRISON Lesley Harrison
Prologue／Prologue
From the journals of Marco Polo, Book II.83
Lament
From'Native Customs' / Selected from "Indigenous Customs"
The Snow Queen［extract］／《The Snow Queen［extract］
Weather Reports You
Song Sang

MASAYO KOIKE
Antelope
Higashi-Kitazawa／Northeast Sawa
The Bus that May Never Come
Feed
Yoshida／Yoshida
Pincushion／Pin bag
Starchy Water／Rice Water

Lü DE'AN
Evening Rainfall
In Egypt
Perhaps It Was a Chorus
Still Missing a Step
Feelings After Returning from Viewing Houses
ATree/a tree
Frost's Descent

Lu YATING
500 Meters Ahead There are Many Who Do Not Yield to Pedestrians
This Time Don't Be Like Last Time
New·Like a Dreamsong／New·Like a Dreamsong
Back Home／Go home
It's Too Cold for Long Rides on the Red Rocking Horse
Letter
The General Sits in the General's Chair
Pearl in the Palm
With Just a Loudspeaker, a Long and Winding Line of People, and a QR Code on an Elevator Door, I Can Go Back to Last Winter. I'veAlready Come Back to Last Winter, So How Long Will It Take for Youto Come Here? I'm Standing Next to the Red Rocking Horse in the Playground, and Will Probably Stay Here Until Five in the Afternoon.
All it takes is a loudspeaker, a long, crooked line, and a QR code posted outside the elevator door to return to last winter. I've already returned to last winter. How long will it take for you to come see me? I'm still standing by the red spring horse at the amusement park, probably until five in the afternoon.

YvON LE MEN YvON LE MEN
The Shore
In the Park of the Temple of Heaven
In Front of the Forbidden City
At Chengdu, in Du Fu's House

OLGA SEDAKOVA Olga SEDAKOVA
“Surely, Maria, it’s not just the frames creaking,” / Maria, it’s not just the frames creaking.
From “The Old Songs”
A Boy，an Old Man，and a Dog／A boy, an old man and a dog
Mistress and Maidservant
Inscription
Child Playing／Children playing chess
Rain／Rain
From The Chinese Travelogue／China Travel (Poems)

WANG YIN
I've Had Enough of Paris
You Love Obscure Words
The Task of the Poet, Written in Vermont After Robert Bly
To Say More Would Be Risky
For a Moment We Can Lose Consciousness of Life and Death
/At this moment, there is no need to know life or death
In the Darkness Someone Is Playing Guitar
Lover

ELIOT WEINBERGER
The Life of Du Fu

YA SHI dumb stone
Entering the Hills
Full Moon Night
Eyes of Small Animals
Stand of Wild Apple
Guardian Angel
Cryptic Poem
Axehead Poem
Poison Poem

Yu Lu
Reject
The Self as a Porcupine

CHRIS SoNG
Afterword／Postscript