{"id":1417,"date":"2012-11-30T10:30:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T02:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2012-12-12T18:44:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T10:44:05","slug":"wind-says-by-bai-hua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1417","title":{"rendered":"Wind Says, by Bai Hua"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wind<\/a>WIND SAYS<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n

Bai Hua \u67cf\u6866
\ntranslated from Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
\nISBN 978-0-9832970-6-2 (paper) $15
\n6 x 8
\n200 pages<\/p>\n

Considered the central literary figure of the post-Obscure (or post-\u201dMisty\u201d) poetry movement during the 1980s, Bai Hua<\/strong> is one of the most influential poets in contemporary China. Born in 1956 in Chongqing, he studied English literature at Guangzhou Foreign Language Institute before graduating with a Master\u2019s degree in Western Literary History from Sichuan University. His first collection of poems, Expression<\/em> (1988), received immediate critical acclaim. A highly demanding writer, Bai Hua\u2019s poetic output is considerably modest but selective: in the past thirty years he has written only about ninety poems. After a silence of more than a decade, he began writing poetry again in 2007. That same year, his work garnered the prestigious Rougang Poetry Award. A prolific writer of critical prose and hybrid texts, Bai Hua is also a recipient of the Anne Kao Poetry Prize. Currently living in Chengdu, Sichuan, he teaches at the Southwest Jiaotong University.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WIND SAYS Bai Hua \u67cf\u6866 translated from Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain ISBN 978-0-9832970-6-2 (paper) $15 6 x 8 200 pages Considered the central literary figure of the post-Obscure (or post-\u201dMisty\u201d) poetry movement during the 1980s, Bai Hua is one of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[59,228],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-mR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1566,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1566","url_meta":{"origin":1417,"position":0},"title":"Bai Hua’s Wind Says at Received & Recommended","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"January 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The weblog Received & Recommended has received--and recommends--Wind Says \u98ce\u5728\u8bf4 (Zephyr Press), by Bai Hua \u67cf\u6866, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain (click here for their write-up of Fiona's Water the Moon). 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