Shi Zhi,Zhang Qinghua,Jonathan Stalling's Winter Sun: Poems (Chinese Literature Today Book Series) PDF

By Shi Zhi,Zhang Qinghua,Jonathan Stalling

ISBN-10: 0806142413

ISBN-13: 9780806142418

Shi Zhi has been an immense strength in chinese language poetry due to the fact 1968, while a number of of his poems have been circulated as mystery handwritten manuscripts in the middle of China’s Cultural Revolution. He gave voice to the aspirations of dispirited formative years, and even if as soon as relegated to obscurity, he's at the present time celebrated as considered one of China’s most vital cultural impacts, having spawned the trendy chinese language poetry revolution of the Eighties. This bilingual number of Shi Zhi’s most vital poems, that includes an afterword via the poet himself, is the 1st book-length ebook of his paintings in English.

Born as Guo Lusheng in 1948, on the peak of the chinese language Civil conflict, Shi Zhi joined the People’s Liberation military on the age of twenty-three. Discharged early, he entered right into a interval of serious melancholy and spent a lot of the following 3 a long time residing in psychological hospitals below harsh stipulations. Taking the pen identify of Shi Zhi, that means “index finger,” to rouse a twin of humans pointing at his again, he endured to put in writing poetry via those tumultuous years, chronicling his trip from the heights of popularity to the depths of institutionalism and finally to a last redemptive go back to society in 2005.  The voice of this besieged poet, harassed with exile and disease, captured the spirit of his new release and now evokes younger readers.

By featuring Shi Zhi’s poems in chronological order, Winter Sun permits readers to understand the evolution of his poetry from his earliest paintings to his most modern poems. Masterfully translated through Jonathan Stalling, and with an creation by means of best poetry critic Zhang Qinqua, this landmark assortment guarantees that Shi Zhi’s poetry—so vital to chinese language readers in the course of the so much difficult of times—will interact the hearts and minds of latest readers across the world for years to come.

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