New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry

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In the dark of night I write down streetlights, streets and a stranger rushing about
In the dark of night I write down women workers at a clothes plant and the
coughs of their destiny
In the dark of night I write down the furnace fires of ironmongery and a finger
swallowed by a machine
I write a streetlight, it’s solitary, yes, it’s so like a homesick person
I write a street, it’s broad, lights burning bright, but where’s a place for me to
stand
I write a furnace at an ironmonger’s, it’s dim light illuminates my pallid youth
I write of love, its sweet taste, it doesn’t know how bitter tomorrow will be
I write of Jute Ridge, this costal village that’s taken in three years of my youth
Ahh, finally, I’ll write of myself, a girl from Sichuan rushing about
Ahh, this menial-worker life—what sort of loneliness and fate must I endure
(Zheng Xiaoqiong)


The woman poet Zheng Xiaoqiong is one of the most successful and
best-known practitioners of poetry in this vein. She also has written
topical poetry on the death of coal miners, for example.
Another aspect of avant-garde Internet poetry is a tendency among
some poets to refashion “found” texts, which may consist of placing
nonpoetic texts within the text of a poem or artfully editing nonpoetic
texts into poetry.


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