ABSTRACT
Pen name of Gong Shuting. Shu Ting was born in Chuanzhou, Fujian. Her patriotic poem 'My Homeland, My Dear Homeland' brought instant recognition and acclaim when it won the prestigious National Poetry Award. Her books include The Double-Masted Boat, Collected Poems of Shu Ting and Gu Chen, The Flowers That Sing, and Earliest Ancestor Bird. Eva Hung, the translator of her poems, wrote the following about the popularity of Shu Ting's work, especially in the midseventies and eighties: Her voice is distinctly feminine, but not feminist. On time's assembly line night weighs down on night people come off the factory assembly line to form yet another line as we trudge home. White gauze, net hangs low fragrant are two sleeping lot uses mood of reunion is bubbly, like water of the Ganges Blue bird of West Berlinred-beaked bird of Pearl Sea migratory birds.
