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,…

On a certain day in a certain month of the Enlightenmentclear skies      light winds out of the southwesthigh in the low 70sBeethoven is born in a bedon a certain day in a certain…

The smallest citizen of Königsbergspent a lifetime parasitically attached to his timepiecewhose faultless clockwork      began to turn at precisely 5 a.m.when not another…

We had a visitation from a woman who’d been dead for many yearswe felt her presence but see her we could notheard her voice instructing us to turnthe hand-crank of the projector in the room (there’s…

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.

Translation of “Zuopiezi manhuazhi mao laile.” Copyright Chihoi 2005. By arrangement with the author and Joint Publications. Translation copyright 2011 by Steve Bradbury. All rights reserved.