New Cathay : Contemporary Chinese Poetry - Ming Di Paperback / softback Preserved beneath layers of alkaline

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Deborah Levy traces and measures her life against the backdrop of the literary and artistic muses that have shaped her - including a letter to her dying mother and to an absent friend

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New Cathay : Contemporary Chinese Poetry - Ming Di Paperback / softback Preserved beneath layers of alkalineThe most up to date anthology of contemporary Chinese poetry, translated by American poets and edited by the executive editor of the bilingual literary journal Poetry East West. Showcasing the achievement of Chinese poetry in the last twenty years, a time of tremendous literary ferment, this collection focuses on a diversity of exciting poets from the mainland, highlighting Duo Duo (laureate of the 2010 Neustadt International Prize for Literature) and