Poetry. Translated from the Chinese by the author, this is the first volume in Green Integer's Taiwanese Modern Literature Series. DRIFTING consists of translation from Cheung's DRIFTERS, first published in Taipei in 1986. This collection centers upon the metaphors of drifting, in which language and meaning wander between two worlds, the East and the West, between the private home and a shared country. DRIFTERS received Taiwan's most coveted literary award, the National Literature and Arts Prize in 1989. Cheung is professor of Asian Studies at USC in Los Angeles.