SELECTED SHORT POEMS BY YE MAN

Translated by Chen Yulin

Ye Man (1921? ) writer, poet, is a native of Jiaoling County, Guangdong. In 1939 he was a co-editor with Pu Feng of Lingdong Magazine of China Poem Circle. In 1940, he joined the Guilin Branch of China Literary Association, in 1946 he co-edited China Poem Circle in Guangzhou with Huang Ningying, and in 1946 he edited Literary Century. After the founding of the Republic, he presided over the editing of literary supplements in Yangcheng Evening News and Guangzhou Daily and the professional literary creation of Guangzhou Literature and Art Association. Meanwhile he was a member of China Writers Association, First Vice-Chairman of Guangzhou Writers Association, Vice Chairman of China Poetic Society, Chairman of the International Poets Pen Club, and the editor in chief, senior-editor of Huaxia Poem Journal. His publications include 20 kinds of poems, poetic theories, and essays. Some poems and essays of his were collected in 80 selections, and translated into English, Japanese, Korean, German, Yugoslavian and Romanian and published in those countries. Ye Man has attended as a member of the Chinese Writers Delegation conferences like the 30th World Writers Conference and the 24th Poem Festival held in Belgrade, and visited Romania, Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia on invitation. At the same time he attended the 10th and 16th World Poets Assembly held in Thailand and Japan.