作者簡介

Michele Metail, is an avant-garde poet and sinologist from France and the first woman member of Oulipo. This is her first book in English translation.

Jody Gladding is a poet and translator. She has received the French-American Foundation Translation Award and the Yale Younger Poets Prize.

• Introduction to the Calligrams Edition(第xiii頁)
• Introduction(第xxv頁)
• A Certain Predisposition in the Language(第xxxix頁)
• Origins of the Reversible Poem(第xlv頁)
• Period of the Six Dynasties (3rd to 6th centuries)(第1頁)
  • The Poem on a Tray(第3頁)
  • Su Hui: The Map of the Armillary Sphere(第9頁)
  • The Cosmological Foundations of the Poem(第15頁)
  • A Poem in Colors(第23頁)
  • Three Thousand One Hundred Twenty Poems(第29頁)
  • The Efficacy of the Form(第53頁)
  • The Poem between Heaven and Earth(第67頁)
  • From the Poem to the Legend(第69頁)
  • He Daoqing (5th century)(第83頁)
  • Wang Rong (468–494)(第85頁)
  • Yin Zhongkan (5th century)(第89頁)
  • The Xiao Court(第91頁)
Tang Dynasty (618–907)(第97頁)
• Li Shimin: Emperor Taizong (599–649)(第99頁)
• Anonymous: The Hermit of the South Mountains(第101頁)
• Anonymous (7th century):The Map on a Hanging Mirror (Panjiantu)(第105頁)
• Quan Deyu (759–818) and Pan Mengyang (?)(第113頁)
• Lü Dongbin (798–?)(第115頁)
• Pi Rixiu (834–883) and Lu Guimeng (?–881)(第119頁)
Song Dynasty (960–1279): Northern Song (960–1127) & Southern Song (1127–1279)(第125頁)
• Xu Yin (Five Dynasties)(第127頁)
• Qian Weizhi (942–1014)(第129頁)
• Sun Mingfu (992–1057) and Pei Yu (?)(第135頁)
• Mei Chuang (?)(第143頁)
• Liu Chang (1019–1068)(第151頁)
• Kong Pingzhong (11th century)(第153頁)
• Wang Anshi (1021–1086)(第159頁)
• Su Dongpo (1036–1101)(第163頁)
• Qin Guan (1049–1100)(第175頁)
• Yuwen Xuzhong (1079–1146)(第179頁)
• Yang Wanli (1127–1206)(第187頁)
• Zhu Xi (1130–1200)(第189頁)
Ming Dynasty (1368–1644)(第191頁)
• Qiu Jun (1418/1421–1495)(第193頁)
• Wang Shizhen (1526–1590)(第197頁)
• Tang Xianzu (1550–1616)(第199頁)
• Li Yang (?)(第201頁)
• Cao Fengzu (?)(第209頁)
Qing Dynasty (1644–1911)(第216頁)
• Wan Shu (1625–1688)(第219頁)
• Zhang Yude (late 18th century)(第223頁)
Return to the West(第235頁)
Appendix: The Ways of Reading Su Hui’s Poem(第237頁)
Selected Bibliography(第261頁)