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October Dedications

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A major English-language collection by one of the seminal figures of the "Misty" Chinese poets.
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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

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Price: $15.00
Pages: 144
Publisher: Zephyr Press
Imprint: Zephyr Press
Series: Jintian
Publication Date: 03 July 2018
Trim Size: 8.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781938890086
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

POETRY / Asian / Chinese, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Chinese, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General

Mang Ke: 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. He lives in Beijing.

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.
Introduction
City
Frozen Land
Autumn
Dedications
Sky
October Dedications
I am Wind
Dusk
Sunflower in the Sun
Late Years
Sunlight