4/23 Hafay/Seventh Sisid

WU Ming-Yi, The Man with the Compound Eyes The best part about talking to Hafay was that she would never judge the sudden sadness that overcomes people after they’ve imbibed. She never got involved, but those long-lashed eyes of hers made you feel nobody could...

4/18 Alice/Seaside House

WU Ming-Yi, The Man with the Compound Eyes an empty house that didn’t even have windowsfake farmhouses and fake B&Bsan amusement parkher house by the seaearthquakea remote islandSummer Housethe City Library of Stockholmsealed the doors and windowsFor the...

4/16 Atile’i/Island

WU Ming-Yi, The Man with the Compound Eyes islandSea Sage & Earth Sagefacing the sea vs. facing awaythe fate of a second sonRasula (Ursula Kroeber Le Guin’s Earthsea Cycle)the True Islesperm whaleimprisoned in a world [of being forgotten]The Vortex on the...

4/11 Mountains and the Ocean-2

YANG Mu, “The Flames of War” and “An Inkling of Poetry” When the sun rose from the sea, shining through the windowpanes onto the clean floor, the room was filled with a fresh and delicate fragrance.At the far end of the streets running west to east you could see the...

4/2 Mountains and the Ocean-1

WALIS Nokan, “Atayal” Tarokothe Pacific Oceanthe sunmilleta national flagsaltthe glory of the menthe rainbow bridgeGovernor-General Sakuma SamataWhen the stele finally came to an open wasteland, it cleaned the tattoos off its body until it became a child of the...

3/19 Formosa Revisited

"Zeelandia," "Formosa, 1661," "Taiwan," and "Pacific Wind" See my 2/7 Formosa keywords:https://pages.stolaf.edu/mtoc/2019/02/05/2-7-formosa/ CHANG, “The Modernist-Nativist Contention - and Misconceptions” the foreign-influenced...