ABSTRACT

Ling Yu started writing poetry in 1983, the same year she left Taiwan to pursue an advanced degree at the University of Wisconsin. Some readers find her highly experimental poems difficult to understand, but they also admire the poems' originality and describe them as being as mysterious as riddles. Currently she is teaching as well as serving as editor in chief of the prestigious poetry journal Modern Poetry in Taipei. Ling Yu has published four books of poems: City of Continuous Activities, Name That Disappears on the Map, Family of Acrobats, and Songs of Mu Dong. We are designated as the accused when we are born The wall stood up, I went through it at the alley's entrance that drifter threw money on the ground I didn't pick it up I entered the subway. Fire blazes in the mirror I walk toward the fire Landmark of humanity the dead's old home and cottage of the living both rest there.