Last Sunday, the first Sunday of the 1990s, elderly members of Taiwan's poetry circle held a small dinner party to celebrate the birthday of Chou Meng-tieh who has been called the "king of the solitary kingdom of poetry." This month marks his seventieth birthday, and The Solitary Kingdom is the title of one of his volumes of poetry.
上週日，也是進入九十年代的第一個星期天，台灣詩壇「前行代」的詩人們舉行了一個小小的餐會，為詩壇有「孤獨國」國王之稱的詩友周夢蝶暖壽，元月正是他的七十大慶；而「孤獨國」乃是他所著一本詩集的名字。