| 英文摘要 |
Shi Ming Zheng was simultaneously a poet, novelist, and painter. Previous scholarship has centered on his fiction and interpreted it within the frame of a“political victim,”while his poetry has long remained under-discussed. This article therefore turns to the poems, seeking to move beyond the singular role of“the victim”and to restore his persona as a wayward drifter. Methodologically, I relocate Shih within the history of Baudelaire’s reception in Taiwan during the 1950s–1960s and examine how Ji Xian’s“sanitizing”translational program occluded a writing of vice, thereby sketching Shih’s place in the history of modern poetry. Close readings show that Shih consistently treats the body as the wellspring of his poetics, interweaving impurity, eroticism, and Chan inflections. Accordingly, I argue that Shih is a“composer of variations”on the Taiwanese poetry scene—reprising, in a local idiom, the darker register of Baudelaire’s reception in Taiwan—and a localized practitioner of Baudelairean poetics. |