June fourth elegies /
Poems written across twenty years in memory of fellow protestors at Tiananmen Square, as well as poems addressed to his wife, Liu Xia.
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Chinese |
| Language Notes: | Parallel Chinese text with English translation. |
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Minneapolis, Minn. :
Graywolf Press,
[2012]
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| Edition: | Bilingual ed. |
| Series: | Lannan translation series selection.
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Table of Contents:
- Experiencing death
- For 17
- Suffocating city square
- A lone cigarette burns
- From the shattered pieces of a stone it begins
- Memory
- I will give my soul free rein
- That day
- Closing in and breaking through
- Standing in the curse of time
- For Su Bingxian
- Memories of a wooden plank
- June fourth, a tomb
- Beneath the gaze of the departed souls
- Fifteen years of darkness
- Remember the departed souls
- The white lillies in the dark night of June fourth
- The dead souls of spring
- Child, mother, spring
- June fourth in my body
- Daybreak
- A small rat in prison
- Greed's prisoner
- Longing to escape
- One letter is enough.