New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry

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New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry Edited by Christopher Lupke 9781403976079ts01.qxp:Layout 1 11/9/07 8:47 AM Page ...

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY CHINESE POETRY Copyright © Christopher Lupke, 2008. All rights reserved. No part of this book m ...

To all contemporary Chinese poets who have suffered in the steadfast pursuit of their art 9781403976079ts01.qxp:Layout 1 11/9/07 ...

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Contents Foreword ix About the Contributors xvii One Introduction: Toward a Chinese Lyrical Modernity 1 Christopher Lupke Two “T ...

viii Contents Part II Contemporary Poetry of Mainland China Eight The Ghost Enters the City: Gu Cheng’s Metamorphosis in the “Ne ...

Foreword Muddy Rivers and Canada Geese   Lyricism has come to mean several things, including the playing of emotions as if the ...

x Foreword elegies, and I wonder if the dead were to talk would they urge the American poet to go on with claiming the land. The ...

Foreword xi The price of this ticket known as Buddhist or Daoist stillness is a shedding of poetic effect such as we see in the ...

xii Foreword less or that one carves a single letter at a time in a word as opposed to a single word at a time in a line, a simp ...

Foreword xiii from this great host of ours. But I am only one poet, and many would not agree. Still I think the tradition of Chi ...

xiv Foreword sensitivity in life, the tendency to perceive and respond to things that go unnoticed by others; although the poet ...

Foreword xv Light is the poet’s lyric, and this is why we sing. Some of us cling to the singing and do not hope for release, whi ...

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About the Contributors John Balcom (Ph.D. Washington University, St. Louis) is Associate Professor in and Chinese Program Head o ...

xviii About the Contributors The Chinese Poetry of Bei Dao, 1978–2000: Resistance and Exile (2006, Edwin Mellen). Andrea Lingenf ...

Chapter One Introduction: Toward a Chinese Lyrical Modernity Christopher Lupke In the storied tradition of Chinese literature, p ...