ABSTRACT

Pen name of Liu Linzhu. Born in Taiwan, Xiao Xiao received her BA in education from the National Teachers College in Gaoxiong, Taiwan. A teacher in Gaoxiong since graduation, she has been honored with several literary prizes for her works. Xiao Xiao writes more conventional romantic lyric poetry, closer in style to poets such as Feng Qing and Xie Xing. In 1986 she published her first book of poems, The Impressions, and in 1994 another book of poems, Holding Your Hand. Pin van Gogh's grief on a lapel light and heat, wrap them up to sellon summer's noisy streets Youth that flows in time has seized the dusk in the eyes. Longing is like a rusted key always will fully stuck there. Plum rain or yellow plum rains are the intermittent drizzles of the raininy season in the middle and lower reaches of the Changjiang River.