Shu Ting

向北方 一朵初夏的薔薇    劃過波浪的琴弦   向不可及的水平遠航 烏雲像癬一樣 布滿天空的顏面 鷗群                卻為她鋪開潔白的翅膀   去吧                    我願望的小太陽                                 如果你沉沒了                                    就睡在大海的胸膛 在水母銀色的帳頂  永遠有綠色的波濤喧響 讓我也漂去吧                                   讓陽光熨貼的風                                  把我輕輕吹送                                    順著溫暖的海流                                  漂向北方 舒婷   1980. 8

Towards the North  An early summer rose Slashing through waves of musical strings Setting sail towards an unreachable horizon Dark clouds like diseased skin Filling the face of the sky The gulls Still unfurling their white wings for her   Go The tiny sun of my longings If you should sink Sleep upon the bosom of the ocean Upon the silvery tent tops of the jellyfish There’ll always be the cries of the green waves   Let me drift too Let the winds smoothed by the ironing of sunlight Blow me away softly,softly In the direction of the warm ocean current Drifting towards the north                                                                                                        Shu Ting  1980. 8   (tr. El Zorro)

Shu Ting ( 舒婷,) born 1952 Jinjiang, Fujian is the pseudonyms of Gong Peiyu (龔佩瑜) a Chinese poet who was sent to work in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution because her father was accused of having the wrong kind of thoughts and upon her return in 1973, she had to work at a cement factory, a textile mill, and a lightbulb factory. But she started writing poetry as early as 1969 publishing her works in several underground literary magazines like 今天 (Today). In the early 1980s, she achieved prominence as the leading female representative of the Misty Poets (朦朧派詩人). Her first collection, 《雙桅船 》(Twin Mast Boat) appeared in 1982, as did a joint-collection with Gu Cheng (顧城)  Later she was asked to join the official Chinese Writers' Association and won the National Outstanding Poetry Award in 1981 and 1983 but during the "anti-spiritual pollution" movement launched the same year, she was again criticized. Following this she published two collections of poetry: The Singing Iris 《會唱歌的鳶尾花》and Ancestral Birds《始祖鳥》. Her works include:

1. The mist of my heart《心煙》: selected poems of Shu Ting, Translator William O'Donnell, Panda Books, 1995,
2.  Shu Ting: Selected Poems (ed. by Eva Hung). Hong Kong: Renditions Paperbacks, 1994.
3. "Shu Ting", Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 16, 1984