Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money (Sinica Leidensia, 86)

162 chapter four and Tan Chee-Lay are among those who dwell on exile and related notions in their research on Yang Lian.^45 Of t ...

exile 163 to the US in 1988. His prestige in post-1989 PRC exile communities is evident from a collection of essays by several t ...

164 chapter four it impossible to focus truly on the experience of exile: any realization of being “here” now irrepressibly mobi ...

exile 165 funereal moon a severed hand flips back your days back to the page where you are absent you write and all the while yo ...

166 chapter four pen would remain and not be swept away. But there is no way out of the “here” and now of exile, as you ends up ...

exile 167 sion,’ the interpretation of «The Square» as a confession is open to debate. If we imagine the text as a document dete ...

168 chapter four Jiaxin’s poetry. As noted in previous chapters, textual and metatex- tual discourse contain thinly veiled signa ...

exile 169 Mo Fei. He has also been grouped together with Chen Dongdong and Ouyang Jianghe, as fellow Intellectual poets, and ass ...

170 chapter four when, across from the hotel, there lies a graveyard in my homeland it’s raining, inside me.... This is entire ...

exile 171 «Another Landscape» (঺ϔ辵亢᱃, 1993), called «England» (㣅Ḑ ݄), begins and ends like this:^56 England, empty, with no one ...

172 chapter four dragging you back. The image operates—and this is how the poem fits seamlessly into Wang’s oeuvre at large—not ...

exile 173 I have called the audience’s overwhelming interest in the poet’s per- sonal history. The poem becomes a metonym for it ...

174 chapter four «Local Accent» is a conspicuously constructed text. The original carries its mechanical repetition of the first ...

exile 175 tory style affects the text’s vitality, if only in a poetics that privileges types of literature that show rather than ...

176 chapter four ideological terror. Zhang Hong broadly takes it as signaling political intention.^68 In the rest of the poem, p ...

exile 177 Remorse comes down like heavy snow when a stone reveals the end I cry here and now for what’s left of my life Give me ...

178 chapter four repression, one is reminded of the “internal emigration” by intellec- tuals and writers in Nazi Germany, which ...

exile 179 There is no simple equation of poetry with exile. For one thing, not all (physical) exiles write poetry. Yet, the meta ...

180 chapter four stranger, language and disdain that remain unwieldy for want of imagi- native usage. Considered alongside other ...

exile 181 runs aground on a sandy beach the sun hit by the ship’s mast is a prisoner of my heart, while I’ve been banished by th ...