About Su Shao-Lien

Su Shao-Lien 蘇紹連 (1949 – ) is a contemporary poet from Taichung County, Taiwan. After earning his master’s degree from the Language and Literacy Department of the National Taichung University of Education, he worked as an elementary school teacher. Su has been involved in many poets’ societies and poetry journals in Taiwan, working with various Taiwanese contemporary poets. He has received awards and recognition for a wide range of works, including children’s and experimental poetry. Su has published over fifteen poetry collections, including 時間的零件 Components in Time in 2016, in which “The Components of Fine Rain,” the first poem translated here, appears.