October Dedications: The Selected Poetry of Mang Ke (Jintian) - Softcover

Ke, Mang

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1938890086 ISBN 13: 9781938890086

Publisher: Zephyr Press, 2018

Synopsis

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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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Zephyr Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1938890086
• ISBN 13: 9781938890086
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144