武庆云是《云雨情：中国到美国回忆录》、《伊甸园里俩夏娃, 男妈妈》和《单一鸟》的作者。她的主要学术与翻译著作有：《中英乌托邦文学中的女权统治》（1996年《选择》杂志杰出学术著作）、《繁华梦：王筠传奇》《第三只眼》、《远方有个女儿国》等。她是加州州立大学中文教授。

Edna Wu is the author of Clouds & Rain: A China-to-America Memoir, Two Eves in the Garden of Eden & A Male Mother, and A Single-Winged Bird. Her major academic and translation publications include Female Rule in Chinese and English Literary Utopias (A 1996 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book), A Dream of Glory: A Chuanqi Play by Wang Yun, a novel about the Chinese People's Liberation Army: The Third Eye, and The Remote Country of Women. She is professor of Chinese at California State University, Los Angeles.

死线

Dead Line

在前面 
似乎有
           一条死线 
我知道它不会是死的
        只是我视野的局限
 
我想为
     自己的忧郁
              定下一个死期 
以此证明我
         超越永恒的
              能力
 
孤独楼上
         我爬得越高
                 天际就离我越远
       我想把它钉死在那儿
唯一只有停留在这儿
 
我追求的
        天际
              只不过是
                      一种
                               眼疾
			

In front  
there seems to be
             a dead line
Though I know it can't be dead
       only the limit of my vision
 
I wish to fix a 
dead-line to my 
               melancholy
to prove my power
                    over
                 eternity
 
The higher I climb in 
          this lonely tower
the farther horizons retreat 
                          
                  I wish to nail it dead there
the only way is to linger here
 
The horizon
      I pursue
                     is merely
                              a visual
                                       disorder