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

202 chapter five nates a palpable joy of language, as does «Salute». Also, an image doesn’t have to mean the same thing through ...

mind over matter, matter over mind 203 a discursive framework, he creates a certain distance between him- self and the reader, a ...

204 chapter five by the echo of Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell (Une saison en enfer).^19 If we, poets, live for beauty by writing po ...

mind over matter, matter over mind 205 If the scream miraculously provoking feelings is poetry, the next sen- tence—earlier cite ...

206 chapter five and in the first stanza of “Winter”: a spare-time writer stops writing and starts to prepare food for the birds ...

mind over matter, matter over mind 207 Xi Chuan has named Haizi’s and Luo Yihe’s sudden deaths as part of the forces that reshap ...

208 chapter five but even the rationality that being awake would normally bring is de- nied them. Death leaves them empty-handed ...

mind over matter, matter over mind 209 How will the ghosts appear? Unless hats can be transformed into hat ghosts and clothes be ...

210 chapter five The taxi covered in snow is pure white, like a polar bear. Its engine doesn’t work, its body temperature is dro ...

mind over matter, matter over mind 211 erate a presence all its own, without constantly raising questions of the type What does ...

212 chapter five Sideways through a shadowy passageway, the monster collides head-on with a glint of steel, and that smallest of ...

mind over matter, matter over mind 213 voking truisms to the effect that good poetry is more likely to have suf- fering than hap ...

214 chapter five social rebellion, or the power of fate. Cui Weiping has invoked the monster to illustrate her observation that ...

mind over matter, matter over mind 215 power, within a framework of modern Chinese poetry and beyond, lies in meticulous and con ...

216 chapter five «Five: Of My Intimate Experience of Things» «Six: Of Fighting, Tearing and Biting, and Death» «Seven: Of the Ap ...

mind over matter, matter over mind 217 In the final stanza of «Of My Meaningless Life» and of the series as whole, the poem inti ...

218 chapter five Thus, the dismantling of the Elevated image by vulgar, material reality takes us back to the earlier series, wh ...

mind over matter, matter over mind 219 interpretation, at the same time, it actively resists any interpretation that leads to se ...

220 chapter five tion of his art.^29 His poetry’s resistance to interpretation, then, stems from the primacy of the poem’s actua ...

mind over matter, matter over mind 221 key feature of this poetry and its unique contribution to modern Chi- nese literature.^30 ...