SELECTED SHORT POEMS BY HUANG HELANG

Translated by Li Mingxin

　　Huang Holang is originally from Changle Town, Fujian Province. He graduated in 1964 from the Fujian Teachers' University, majoring in Chinese literature. He then taught for many years. In 1975 he went to Hong Kong, and in 1995 moved to the U.S.A., Currently he is the President of the Hawaii Chinese Writers?　Association, Chief Editor of the literary journal Peral Harbor, and Visiting Professor at the Huaqiao University in China.

　　He began publishing in the 1960s, including poetry, essays, and literary criticisms, which appeared in journals and newspapers in the mainland of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and various international outlets. His published books include collections of poems: Ocean Spray Abroad, Poetic Sentiments on the Great Earth, Echoes from the End of the Earth, High and Low Tides of Hong Kong, Paces of the Wind, Ocean Breathing, and the collection of essays, Love from Afar, among others.

　　His essay, The Banyan Tree of My Home, written in 1979, won first prize in the Essays Section of the Chinese Literature Awards, conducted by the Urban Council of Hong Kong, and thereafter was widely reprinted and commented upon. Beginning in the 1980s, it was included in the first volume of the High School Literature Textbook series in the mainland of China, and also has been used at various universities as selected teaching material or supplementary teaching material.

　　Mr. Huang's biographical sketch and list of achievements appear in Biographical Sketches of Notable Chinese Cultural Persons in the World, Encyclopedia of Chinese Literary Persons, and among tens of various encyclopedias.