ABSTRACT

Zhang Xianghua has taught in various colleges and has served as editor of the Grassroots Poetry Monthly. Her publications include four collections of essays, one collection of prose and poetry, and three books of poems: Sleepless Green Green Grass, Affection Is Everywhere, and A Chinese Woman in Iowa. Chang Xianghua, Waiting for Snowy, translated by Karen Steffen Chung. Under that radianceI am a petal of a white jasmine, shaking in fear, wanting just to gasp and die If you let me be able to change then I'll flow into a bend of coolness and wait to leave my gift for someone who scoops me up with a ladle. Dusk on its wings drops down its feathers a strange, mysterious story enters the stage of the western sky. 30percent off 40percent off Half Price Gigantic Sale profits sacrificed drastic mark downs everything ridiculously cheap signs, banners of all shapes and colors hanging vertically or horizontally tumbled in the west wind.