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Is It Barbaric to Write Poetry After Auschwitz?
If so, every fifth year after the events,one is to dictate a living willwith instructions to burneverything that’s been written.Pass the time instead by listeningto someone else ramble on about it.
A poem can’t stop a tank. But if there are enoughpoetry books, can they jam up the treadsas it strains and rumbles forward?
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Chen Dongdong
Chen Dongdong was born in Shanghai in 1961. He graduated from Shanghai Normal University, began writing poetry in 1981, and became associated with a group of experimental poets in the 1980s. His recent publications include Unbanned Title (2011) and The Guide Map (2013). He now lives in Shenzhen.
