From Birds To... Aircraft

The genre of poems that may be read both forward and backward, producing different creations was known as the “flight of wild geese.” These poems were often sent so that a distant lover, like the migrating birds, would return. Its greatest practitioner, and the focus of this critical anthology, is Su Hui, a woman who, in the 4th Century, embroidered a silk for her distant husband using a grid of 840 characters that created perhaps 12,000 ways to read this poem. With examples from the 3rd to the 19th centuries, Michele Metail describes reversible poems as “a singular adventure at the edge of meaning, of language, and of writing.”

目錄 自序 Preface 從繪畫到攝影的藝術革命 A Creative Journey from Canvas to Shutter 香江暮霧 Hong Kong at Dusk 海山欲雨 Guishan Rain 晴山瑞雪 Seasonal Snow 沙山暮暉 Sand Mountains at Dusk 漠原無盡 Endless Desert 草山秋晴 Grass Mountains in Autumn 漩渦 Whirlpool 夏溪深翠 Summer Stream 石瀨鳴泉 Roaring Current 碧巖飛瀑 Waterfall 綠波寒禽 Birds in Winter 湖山麗影 Reflections 寒溪湧翠 Winter Green 明溪秋樹 Autumn River 明潭清曉 Pool at Dawn 悠游 Frolicking 深谷清秋 Autumn Ravine 滿林秋色 Autumn Color 黃林映翠 Yellow Forest Reflecting Green 翠陀高秋 Height of Autumn 胡楊清趣 Poplar Forest 榮與枯 Boom and Bust 千里楊林 Dense Poplar Forest 綠茵野趣 Green Fields 遙山雪霽 Snow-topped Mountains 雲沙遠眺 Clouds and Sand 斜陽疊色 Folded Colors at Dusk 疊沙伏影 Hidden Shadows 沙波 Sand Waves I 沙波 Sand Waves II 光與影 Light and Shadow 塔沙無垠 Sand Towers 光與影 Light and Shadow 石痕 Stone Ripples 永結同心 Together Forever 柿園秋色 Persimmon Orchard inAutumn 春信 Spring 梅丘浮翠 Plum Hill 清江萬古情 Eternal River 綠渚夕暉 Islets at Dusk 迴塘佳趣 Curving Dykes 日出而作 Sunrise 水光霞色 Water Reflections at Twilight 飛雲齊天 Clouds in Flight 山在虛無飄渺間 Mountain Revealed 雪路 Sno