This 10-stanza poem was written in 1971 when Gu Cheng was only 15; it is a poem from among the ones he “wrote on the riverbank with twigs” (Gu xii). However, its publication and warm acceptance by the public in… Read More ›
modern Chinese poetry
Analysis of Bei Dao’s The Answer
The Answer Debasement is the password of the base, Nobility the epitaph of the noble. See how the gilded sky is covered With the drifting twisted shadows of the dead. The Ice Age is over now, Why is there ice… Read More ›
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