ABSTRACT
A native of Hunan Province, Luo Ying grew up in Taiwan. Her poetry has been described as being modernist in feeling and using techniques that reflect her early connection with the Modernist School. See Zhong Ling's comments in her preface to Luo Ying's Fifty Percent Happiness. Hong Ling, Contemporary Chinese Muse: A Critique of Taiwan. Wo men's Poetry, Luo Ying' s publications include two books of poems: The Cloud's Capturing Hand and One Half of Happiness. Her husband, Shang Qing, is also an established poet in Taiwan. The child who reads leaves has wrapped old clouds round his neck and run in a direction where the sun is setting. By chance the butterfly flutters into the house filling the room with a fine mist of rain when the lake starts to sway on the tabletop the butterfly settles on the water like the face of my dead mother caught in a frame.
