[The following work is selected from 300 New Chinese Poems (1917-2012), a Chinese-English college reader published by Poetry Pacific Press in October 2013.] Qin Zihao:: Pursuit The setting sun in the sea Solemn and stirring like heroes’ sighs A heart runs to it Towards where the horizon lies The sea wind in the dark night Blowing with yellow sand In the endless night A valiant soul Riding on the time-steed grand At Hualian Port, August, 1950 The Existence of Bottle Purifying the zeal of sense organs and subliming it to naught, adept to response Inhaling all breaths and sounds inside it, and turning it into rhythms A stout belly Easy and free A stout belly As if sitting, and as if standing Sitting in a Zen meditation, and standing in a Buddhist stance As if backward, and as if forward Against abyss and toward void Against void and toward abyss Against all, you are in oblivion Toward all You observe in all directions Not a plain, but a cube Not a square, but a round, corresponding all directions Accommodating response, and accommodating visibility It is an axle, with gravity and the radiation of light A stout belly Waking in a catnap, and catnapping in a wake Stationary motion of ego and the motionlessness and un-stationariness of non-ego Existing in affirmation, and existing in negation Not accidental, no shape Not theological, no creed It is a being, a still being, an esthetic being And esthetics forms from images, visible and tangible but uncertain images It is an existence of another world It is an order of dream , an order of mixing Classics, symbols, cubes, trans-realism and abstraction Coming from the Creator’s perceptual design Displaying in the shapes chaotically clear and abstractly concrete Existing in the nudity and clarity of thinking Catnapping for seven days, waking for a thousand years Catnapping for a thousand years, gathering the visions of ten thousand years Turning chaos into clarity, and turning clarity into vagueness Stars and the sun in the atmosphere of the universe Graceful, and simple as before New light, fresh as before Still as it is, clear as it is, and chaotic as it is, Each inch is light Each inch is beauty No need for excuse No need for disguise Forest-like the numerous stars Shining by night, hiding by day In the broad daylight of no stars The sun is the dominator Profound and vast the blue heaven Where hide infinite riches The void being is in your belly It is an improbable naught The exuviations of chrysalis, the blooming and withering of flowers Butterflies spreading their wings, sunflowers throwing their seeds They evolve, transmute, endlessly recycle? Or the burst and passage of a laughter are in an instant? Instant linking instant Then there are sunrise and sunset, time in change, and time is still time You hold the entirety of time And house the loneliness of a universe In eternal motionlessness, you breathe the void Composed as unity, free as unity, and easy as unity You settle in unity Setting unity in lonely variances Inseparable Indecomposable — Stillness after great understanding — Existence after great nirvana A stout belly Easy and free The universe houses you And you conceive a universe in your belly The universe exists because of you About the author: Qin Zihao (1912—1963), originally named Qin Ji, was born in Guanghan City, Sichuan Province. In 1932, he went to Conte College, Beijing Sino-French University. In 1936, he went to study in Japan. He returned to China in July, 1937, and went in for Anti-Japanese Cultural Movement. In 1947, he went to Taiwan, and worked successively at the Materials Adjusting Committee of Taiwan Province and the Grain Bureau. In 1954, he co-sponsored “Blue Star Society” with Zhong Dingwen, Yu Guangzhong, etc, and acted as the first editor-in-chief of the magazine Blue Star Poetry. His major works include Recorded Poems of Ocean, The Sunflower (collections of poems), The Anatomy of Poetry, On Modern Poetry(collections of poetic essays). His Complete Works of Qin Zihao is known to the world. (Tr. by Yang Xu) 覃子豪 追求 大海中的落日 悲壮的像英雄的感叹 一颗星追过去 向遥远的天边 黑夜的海风 刮起了黄沙 在苍茫的夜里 一个健伟的灵魂 跨上了时间的快马 1950年8月 花莲港 瓶之存在 净化官能的热情，升华为零，而灵于感应 吸纳万有的呼吸与音籁在体中，化为律动 自在自如的 挺圆圆的腹 挺圆圆的腹 似坐着，又似立着 禅禅寂然的静坐，佛之庄严的肃立 似背着，又似面着 背深渊而面虚无 背虚无而临深渊 无所不背，君临于无视 无所不面 面面的静观 不是平面，是一立体 不是四方，而是圆，照应万方 圆通的感应，圆通的能见度 是一轴心，具有引力与光的辐射 挺圆圆的腹 清醒于假寐，假寐于清醒 自我的静中之动，无我的无动无静 存在于肯定中，亦存在于否定中 不是偶然，没有眉目 不是神祗，没有教义 是一存在，静止的存在，美的存在 而美形于意象，可见可感而不可确定的意象 是另一世界之存在 是古典、象征、立体、超现实与抽象 所混合的秩序，梦的秩序 诞生于造物者感兴的设计 显示于混沌而清明，抽象而具象的形体 存在于思维的赤裸与明晰 假寐七日，醒一千年 假寐千年，聚万年的冥想 化浑噩为灵明，化清晰为朦胧 群星与太阳在宇宙的大气中 典雅，古朴如昔 光焕，新鲜如昔 静止如之，澄明如之，浑然如之， 每一寸都是光 每一寸都是美 无需假借 无需装饰 繁星森然 闪烁于夜晚，隐藏于白昼 无一物存在的白昼 太阳是其主宰 青空渺渺，深邃 而有不可穷究的富饶深藏 空灵在你腹中 是不可穷究的虚无 蛹的蜕变，花的繁开与谢落 蝶展翅，向日葵挥洒种子 演进、嬗变、循环无尽? 或如笑声之迸发与逝去，是一个刹那? 刹那接连刹那 日出日落，时间在变，而时间依然 你握时间的整体 容一宇宙的寂寞 在永恒的静止中，吐纳虚无 自适如一，自如如一，自在如一 而定于一 寓定一于孤独的变化中 不容分割 无可腐朽 ——彻悟之后的静止 ——大觉之后的存在 自在自如的 挺圆圆的腹 宇宙包容你 你腹中却孕育着一个宇宙 宇宙因你而存在 作者简介： 覃子豪（1912—1963），原名覃基，生于四川广汉。1932年就读于北京中法大学孔德学院。1936年赴日本留学。1937年7月回国，投身抗日文化运动。1947年去台湾，先后在台湾省物资调节委员会和粮食局任职。1954年与钟鼎文、余光中等发起创立“蓝星诗社”，主编《蓝星》诗刊。主要作品有：诗集《海洋诗抄》、《向日葵》，诗论集《诗的解剖》、《论现代诗》等。另有《覃子豪全集》行世。
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