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82 chapter two that can both be seen and used for cover a bird’s two sides with my left eye separate from my right see you and s ...

true disbelief 83 that thwarts communication, commonly contemplated by theorizers, critics and poets ever since poststructuralis ...

84 chapter two Poetry of the Nineties, exceptions being Han Dong, Lü De’an and Yu Jian. Toward the end of Reading Poetry, the no ...

true disbelief 85 looks through the glass or the screen and sees dishes that A doesn’t see to bring this narration to a close, l ...

86 chapter two experience. In this respect, Han Dong’s literary kinship with Yu Jian stands out. As in many of Han’s poems, one ...

true disbelief 87 neglected B, and that A and B see different things, and don’t see each other. A sees the world outside the win ...

88 chapter two tagonists to puppets on a string, and foregrounds the artificiality of the poem as a textual construct. A’s failu ...

true disbelief 89 contact and communication, including communication through po- etry. As such, Han’s poetics is one of disbelie ...

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thanatography and the poetic voice 91 CHAPTER THREE THANATOGRAPHY AND THE POETIC VOICE: HAIZI Ask any Chinese about the poet Hai ...

92 chapter three Figure 3.1. Haizi, late 1980s (Haizi 1995, inside cover) ...

thanatography and the poetic voice 93 ᴔП䇰, 2005). And third: yes, there are those who attempt to rescue Haizi’s poetry from the ...

94 chapter three cide. I would venture that the state of mind directly preceding the act of suicide—not so much in time as in ex ...

thanatography and the poetic voice 95 represents a choice by the commentator that will benefit from explica- tion. In this respe ...

96 chapter three before he died. His publication record aside, however, what we know of his literary status while alive comes to ...

thanatography and the poetic voice 97 poor by Chinese standards nationwide and across social strata. He had few social contacts ...

98 chapter three cupied at the time by students who had gone on hunger strike as part of the 1989 Protest Movement, and accordin ...

thanatography and the poetic voice 99 Figures 3.2 and 3.3. Small Station (unofficial, 1983) and The Poetry of Haizi (People’s Li ...

100 chapter three jing Press brought out Works by Haizi and Luo Yihe (⍋ᄤǃ做ϔ見԰ક 䲚), containing selections from every genre that H ...

thanatography and the poetic voice 101 Luo Yihe, and to early essays by critics and fellow poets such as Li Chao, Zhu Dake, Xiao ...