ABSTRACT
One of the most exciting new voices to appear on the poetry scene in Taiwan in the 1990s, Ling Yu grew up in Taiwan and graduated from National Taiwan University, majoring in Chinese literature. Ling Yu started writing poetry in 1983, the same year she left Taiwan to pursue an advanced degree at the University of Wisconsin. In 1991 she was a visiting scholar at Harvard University. 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. Since returning to Taiwan Ling Yu has worked in the publishing world. 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 (1990), Name That Disappears on the Map (1992), Family of Acrobats (1996), and Songs of Mu Dong (1999).
