I am willing to carve you a ten-second slice of winter.

I’m the pig, I said, you’re just an idiot

Living on “Ilha Formosa” and being one of those translators who likes to get to know his authors before he represents them overseas, I don’t often translate poetry from mainland China,…

Mozart says / keep your eye on this Beethoven / he’s going to rock the world

Even god was still dreaming

We were quite bewitched and forgot to ask her what the afterlife was like

No matter how many times he put the kitten back down on the floor, it leaped right back up, even though the bed was many times its height.

The adaptation that follows was inspired by a short story (also in this month’s issue), “Davin Chan Moves Out,” by the celebrated Hong Kong novelist and essayist Xi Xi. Chihoi’s version, which…