ABSTRACT
One of the most popular poets in Taiwan, best known for her romantic love poems, Xi Muyong was born in Sichuan but grew up in Taiwan. Xi is also a best-selling prose writer and an accomplished painter who has held several exhibitions of her paintings. Of Mongolian descent, her name is said to mean 'great river' in Mongolian. 'High High Is Teng Ge Li', included here, is one of them. Her publications include: Seven-Mile Fragrance, Youth Without Grievance, Nine Pieces on Time, Dialogue Between Water and Stone, and Songs of the Rivers. How can I let you see me when I am at my prettiest for this I prayed five hundred years in front of the Buddha for our earthly destiny to be fulfilled. So the Buddha turned me into a tree growing by the roadside where you go by I shyly send out my blossoms under the sun every flower is a wish of my previous lives.
