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Mang Ke is a prominent Chinese poet and painter who started the underground literary journal Jintian (Today) with Bei Dao. He has published several collections of poetry in Chinese, as well as a novel and a volume of essays. October Dedications contains a chronological selection of material focusing on previously untranslated work from the early 1970s to late '80s.
Frozen Land
pallbearers drift by like a cloud
the river slowly carries the sun
dying the water's long surface golden yellow
such stillness
such vastness
such sadness
the meadow of wilted flowers
Jonathan Stalling
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Jonathan Stalling lives with his family in Norman, Oklahoma, where he teaches Poetry and Transpacific Literature at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of GROTTO HEAVEN (Chax Press, 2010) and Poetics of Emptiness: Transformations of Asian Thought in American Poetry (Fordham University Press, 2010), and an editor of Chinese Literature Today magazine and book series.
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