October Dedications

Title: October Dedications
Author: Mang Ke
ISBN: 9781938890086
Publisher: Zephyr Press
Published: 2018
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: New
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Publisher Description:

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