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- A Phone Call From Dalian: Selected Poetry of Han Dong
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
- Series: The Jintian series of contemporary literature
summary
AN DONG was born in 1961 in Nanjing, where he continues to live and work as a full-time writer. He has a long history in the Chinese contemporary poetry scene: he was not only very influential in avant-garde poetry in the 1980s but continues to be highly regarded as a poet today and has a seriously devoted following. He has edited groundbreaking literary magazines and websites such as Them and Today and was a leader of the 1998 "Fracture" movement, which encouraged independent writers to break free of conventional literary values. Today, characteristically, he continues to court controversy with his blogs and essays. He is also a respected novelist—his first, published in translation as Banished! by University of Hawai'i Press, was long-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008. He has won independent poetry prizes in China, and has made several literary tours in the West in recent years.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 1-4
- The Poetics of Disbelief
- pp. vii-xiii
- A Phone Call from Dalian
- pp. xv-xix
- 1. Green Tree, Red Fruit
- pp. 2-3
- 3. There Is a Darkness
- pp. 6-7
- 4. I Hear Cups
- pp. 8-9
- 5. A Loud Noise
- pp. 10-11
- 6. Visiting Shandong
- pp. 12-13
- 7. A Phone Call from Dalian
- pp. 14-15
- 8. Round Jade
- pp. 18-19
- 10. Gregorian Chant
- pp. 22-23
- 11. Elevator Door Etc.
- pp. 24-25
- 12. The Worker’s Hand
- pp. 26-27
- 13. The Chicken Seller
- pp. 28-29
- 14. Of the Wild Goose Pagoda
- pp. 30-31
- 15. Mountain People
- pp. 32-33
- 16. So You’ve Seen the Sea
- pp. 34-35
- 17. A and B
- pp. 36-39
- 18. Your Hand
- pp. 40-41
- 19. The Train
- pp. 42-43
- 20. Let Me Describe the Rainstorm
- pp. 44-45
- 21. Making a Note
- pp. 46-47
- 22. Dialogue
- pp. 48-49
- 24. So Dispassionate
- pp. 52-53
- 25. Waitress
- pp. 54-55
- 26. Night Flight
- pp. 56-59
- 30. Return
- pp. 70-73
- 31. Love Life
- pp. 74-75
- 32. Absurd Winter Scene
- pp. 76-77
- 34. Growing Up Is a Mistake
- pp. 80-81
- 35. The Days of Our Lives
- pp. 82-83
- 36. The Softer Part
- pp. 84-85
- 37. Wood Work
- pp. 86-87
- 38. Summertime Window
- pp. 88-89
- 39. We Sat on the Street
- pp. 90-91
- 40. In White-tiled Brightness
- pp. 92-93
- 41. Some People Don’t Like to Talk
- pp. 94-95
- 42. It’s Foggy
- pp. 96-97
- 43. These Past Few Years
- pp. 98-101
- Translator Acknowledgments
- pp. 103-124
- Translator Biographies
- pp. 105-106
Additional Information
ISBN
9789629969042
Related ISBN(s)
9789629964924
MARC Record
OCLC
871208017
Pages
128
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No