Angelo Mao Reviews Lao Yang’s Pee Poems
"What, then, is poetry written after art itself no longer feels possible? Completed in the wake of this destruction, Pee Poems is Lao Yang’s answer in verse. It’s a formally bold work of irascible freedom and scathing political commentary, but also, at its core, a poignant lament for human transience."
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What Sparks Poetry:
David Hinton on Li Po's "Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon"
"I’ve found that translating classical Chinese poetry is a way for me to make contemporary poetry that operates outside of the Western cosmological or mythological system, even so far as to register a very different sense of what the self is. In this poetry, identity can be so much a part of the empirical world that it actually becomes landscape." |
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