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Book SynopsisFirst collection in English by the central literary figure of China's post-Misty Poetry movement beginning in the 1980s.
Table of ContentsContents Introduction A Prelude to Bai Hua’s Lyricism — 5 I Precipice To An Ill Boy 13 Sea Summer 16 Or Something Else 19 Goodbye, Summer 21 Precipice 23 White Headscarf 25 II Summer is Still Far Summer is Still Far 29 March 31 Afternoon 33 Book 35 Fish 37 En Route 39 A Republican Afternoon 41 III In the Qing Dynasty Cloud Diviner 45 Emperor Li Yu 47 Dusk 49 In the Qing Dynasty 52 IV Jonestown Autumn Weapon 57 Pain 59 Bones from My Singing 61 Mass Summer 63 To Osip Mandelstam 66 Beauty 69 Jonestown 72 Hatred 75 This Harsh Cold is Worth Commemorating 77 V Memories Remembrance 81 Memories 83 Rider 85 A View of Jiangnan 87 Summer Read: Biography of a Poet 90 Summer, 1966 93 Seed 95 Ten Nights Ten Nights 97 Education 99 Wheat: In Memory of Hai Zi 101 The Poet’s Medical Record 103 Life 105 VI The Man Clothed in Birch Bark Performing Spring, Growing Pears 109 Reality 111 The Man Clothed in Birch Bark 113 Love Campaign 115 Future 117 Spring Begins 119 Family 121 New Year’s Eve 123 Scripture of Aging 125 The Old Poet 127 VII Hand Notes on Mountain and Water Choice 131 Ancient Tune of Guangling 133 Song of Cotton 135 Hand Notes on Mountain and Water 140 A Short Film on Two Eras 145 In the Ape King’s Cave 147 Under the Mandarin Tree 149 VIII Fading, Fading Curtain Call 153 Jialing River 155 Two Days in Huangshan 157 Brewing 159 The End 161 Summer Lyric 164 Wind Says 168 Character Sketches 172 Primary School Life 175 from The Book of Tibet Impermanence (II) 177 Fading, Fading 179 The Tibetan Man 181 Notes 184 Interview The Enigma of Time, Cities and Voices: Conversing with Contemporary Chinese Poet Bai Hua 188
