Mo, Xiaoxie, 214
Modern Chinese Poetry, 9–26
passim, and cultural hybridity,
15–17, definition of, 26n1, as
“impure” or “un-Chinese,” 15,
as “living literature,” 26, the
“modernity” of, 13–15, and
revolution, 16–17
Modern Poetry Debate, 12, 69
Modernist School of Poetry
(Taiwan), 21, 68, 75, 77
Mohammed, 9
Monkey King, 136, 138
Mu, Dan, 15
myth and mythic quality in poetry,
118–19
naming and antinaming, 6,
185, 199
Nativist Literary Movement, 21
nature, nature writing and the status
of nature in poetry, 4, 125–30,
131, 137, 141n1, 142nn2, 3,
143nn9, 13, 15, 85–103
passim, and the limits of
language, 87–90, 99n5,
100n10, the longing for, 151–2,
and natural philosophy, 125,
134–5, 138–9, 141
New Criticism, xii, 34
New Poetry (xin shi), 12
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 139
Nineteen Ancient Poems, 32
Not-Not, 214
Nüwa, 188f
obscure poetry, seemisty poetry
online poetry, 201–18 passim
Ostrovksy, Nikolai, 211
Ou, Wai’ou, 22
Ouyang, Jianghe, 186, 187, 190
Person of Inferior Health, 208
Plath, Sylvia, 106, 109, 115
poetry, and art, 145, 146, 148,
149–57, New or Newborn
Generation, 106, 147, Third
Generation, 147
“popular” or “people’s” poets, see
“minjian” poets
postmodernism, 107, 112
Pound, Ezra, xii, 14, 133Qin dynasty, 42Rilke, Rainer Maria, 50
Rimbaud, 142n1
Ritzer, George, 146, 162n6
Romanticism, 68, 126
Rongzi, 113
Root-Seeking (or Seeking-Roots)
Movement, 21, 165Sang, Ke, 203, 214
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 50, 96
Sassen, Saskia, 146, 162n4
Shakespeare, William, 15
Shang dynasty, 47
Shang, Qin, 22, 47, 48, 64
Shen, Haobo, 206
Shen, Qi, 40, 46, 46n1
shi, 25
Shi, Zhi, 162n9
Shu, Ting, 114, 123, 146, 162n9
Simmons International Poetry
Conference, 2
Stevens, Wallace, xiii, “The
Snowman,” ix, 75
Su, Shaolian, 22
Su, Shi, 79
Sun, Dayu, 63
Sun, Wenbo, 6, 165–83 passim, and
the New Railway Village, 166,
178, 180, 181, 183n1
Surrealism, 69, 72f, 82
symbolism in poetry, 68ff, 74, 81fTaiwan, seecontemporary poetry in
Tang dynasty, 75, 77f
Tang, Xiaodu, 115
Tang, Yaping, 120nn3, 7
Tao, Naikan, 167f236 Index