ABSTRACT
Pen name of Zhou Cuiqing. Born in Taiwan, Dou Si started writing poetry in 1958. Her works have appeared widely in various poetry journals and newspapers in Taiwan; in 1963 she published her first collected poems, The Profile. Dou Si also writes fiction. The noted poet/critic Zhang Mo characterized her poetry as having 'a kind of sharpness, melancholy and tenderness'. Dou Si's husband, Bi Jia, is also a poet. Stomp on my own heart, my own head My close companion Is now long, now short, now invisible. Though the cold wind blows and blows it cannot blow away this sullen air face to face we stand our eyes meet in silence. Suddenly the sound of a distant bells lowly rises, like a small path that stretches on and on under our feet now and again our words drop to the ground and take root.
