Guo Songfen (1938-2006) was associated with the remarkable group of writers who graduated from the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department at National Taiwan University during the 1960s. An important voice in Taiwan's modernist literary movement, Guo Songfen lived in the United States from 1966 until his death, writing most of his major works while abroad. This is the first significant collection of his writings to appear in translation. John Balcom is associate professor and head of the Chinese program at the Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation, Monterey Institute of International Studies. He has translated twelve books, including Li Qiao's Wintry Night, Chang Hsi-kuo's City Trilogy, and Lo Fu's Driftwood.
