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October Dedications
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03 July 2018

Mang Ke is a prominent Chinese poet and painter who started the underground literary journal Jintian (Today) with Bei Dao. He has published several collections of poetry in Chinese, as well as a novel and a volume of essays. October Dedications contains a chronological selection of material focusing on previously untranslated work from the early 1970s to late '80s.
Frozen Land
pallbearers drift by like a cloud
the river slowly carries the sun
dying the water's long surface golden yellow
such stillness
such vastness
such sadness
the meadow of wilted flowers
POETRY / Asian / Chinese, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Chinese, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General
Lucas Klein: Translator and editor of CipherJournal.com, he has regularly reviewed books for Rain Taxi and other venues. A graduate of Middlebury College (BA) and Yale University (PhD), he is Assistant Professor in the School of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong.
City
Frozen Land
Autumn
Dedications
Sky
October Dedications
I am Wind
Dusk
Sunflower in the Sun
Late Years
Sunlight