POETRY
Candle and Shadow I
—POEM by Chen Hsiu-chen
(Translated from Mandarin by Lee Kuei-shien)
In the darkness,
you are looking for me
to have my body as an
altar,
burn
into a firing phoenix.
In your trembling spark,
I manifest myself
and become
your
shadow.
By how much you love me
you will burn how
intensively
until
the last oxygen extinguished.
In the darkness I
follow you step by step,
while you occupy me
inch by inch
with
a rhythm of the light.
The dance of flame,
and the dance of love
play a twin dance show
of death
with an ultimate
beautiful.
….
(Translated
from Mandarin by Lee Kuei-shien)
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Chen Hsiu-chen
Born in Taiwan. Chen Hsiu-chen has published 13 books including “Non-diary, 2009”, “String Echo in Forest, 2010”, ”Mask, 2016”, “Uncertain Landscape, 2017”, “Promise, 2017”, “Poetry Feeling in Tamsui, 2018” , “Fracture, 2018”, “My Beloved Neruda, 2020”, “Virus takes no rest, 2021” , “Encountering wth Cesar Vallejo,2022”, “Heaven on Earth, 2022”, “Room, 2023”, and “Christmas Month in Mexico, 2024”
Chen Hsiu-chen has participated the International Poetry Festival held in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, and was featured on the cover of international magazine “La Barca” Issue No. 9 of Colombia, as well as interviewed by media from India and reported with her poetic career by media from Puerto Rico.
Chen Hsiu-chen’s poems have been translated into more than twenty languages and selected into several tens of poetry anthologies. She was awarded with Estrella Matutina by Festival of Capulí Vallejo y su Tierra from Peru in 2018, Naji Naaman Literary Prizes from Lebanon in 2020 and conferred the International Intellectual Certificate of the year 2024 from the International Cultural Forum for Humanity and Creativity in Syria.
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Recently by Chen Hsiu-chen:
Lee Kuei-shien
Lee Kuei-shien served as chairman of National Culture and Arts Foundation in Taiwan, now is the vice president in Asia of Movimiento Poetas del Mundo. He has published 29 poetry books and 3 memoirs. His poems have been translated and published in Japan, Korea, Canada, New Zealand, Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Romania, India, Greece, Lithuania, USA, Spain, Brazil, Mongolia, Russia, Cuba, Chile, Poland, Nicaragua, Bangladesh, Turkey, Macedonia, Serbia, Malaysia, Kosovo, Italy, Mexico, Colombia, The United Arab Emirates, Nepal, Kenya, Albania, South Africa, England, etc.
Lee Kuei-shien has been awarded with many domestic and international prizes from India, Mongolia, Korea, and Bangladesh.
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