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Breaking New Sky: Contemporary Poetry from China by Ouyang Yu
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
This is a wonderful eclectic collection of the work of known and unknown contemporary Chinese poets which marks a sea change in the form. Lyrical, political, and yet down-to-earth, this new poetry exhibits a liberating, existential dimension previously constricted by propoganda and self-censorship. The ...Show more
Flag of Permanent Defeat by Yu Ouyang
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Ouyang Yu has been one of Australia's most prolific producers of poetry, translations and edited collections for the last three decades. He has also been nominated, in April 2019, as one of the top ten poets for 2018 in China as a xianfeng shiren (avant-garde poet) because he has been writing poetry tha ...Show more
The White Cockatoo Flowers: Stories by Ouyang Yu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories
A father and son muse on the value of fame and fortune and the path of chujia or receding from the world by becoming a monk. On Christmas Eve a lonely immigrant travels from his deserted outer suburb to the city in search of life. Spouses navigate their adult son's need to 'rebrand' himself with an Engl ...Show more
To Practice the Rhythms by Yu Ouyang (Translator); Cai Shu
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Chinese Poetry Ser.
Three Yearsthe land, extending itself, makes one turn after another, spitting village after village, till it gives its cold light to the gaping grave.I, a blunt knife, hammered on an anvil have been hardened--for three years three years Till a miracle happens-- will I be able to return from it?Born in 1 ...Show more
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