far beyond moon frog leaps
Longhouse, 2006
Ed Baker
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
青蛙一躍遠超過月亮以外
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
青蛙一跃远超过月亮以外
Bio Sketch
Born in Washington, D.C. in 1941, Ed Baker was an artist and poet who resided in Washington, D.C. He had published over 2500 watercolors, 75,000 poems, and 500 3-d pieces, and he died after surgery on 28 March 2016. Full Moon and Stone Girl E-pic are two of his recent titles. For more information about his work, see Joseph Hutchison's and John Mingay's reviews.
The unexpected yet powerful concluding words give me a big smile, and the pace of a one-liner and the use of inversion lift the poem up a notch.
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