Enforced Rustication in the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Poems - Couverture souple

Zheng, Jianqing

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1680031767 ISBN 13 : 9781680031768

Editeur : Texas Review Press, 2019

Synopsis

During China's Cultural Revolution, millions of middle school and high school graduates, called zhiqing, were sent to the countryside to receive reeducation from peasants. They dug the earth daily, with deep conviction that they would play an important role in the transformation of rural China. Jianqing Zheng's rusticated years were central to his poetic imagination in this collection.

"The poems in this collection reveal a complex narrative of China's Cultural Revolution and its Sent-Down-Youth. While each poem stands alone--graced with stunning descriptions ("At fish-belly dawn"), images ("hands fluttering / like butterflies on cotton fluffs"), and all too human struggles ("I am tired of being tired; / of being told what to do")--together they tell of a larger history."--Rita Costello

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

JIANQING ZHENG is author of The Landscape of Mind (Slapering Hol Press) and editor of African American Haiku: Cultural Visions (University Press of Mississippi). His poetry has appeared in Mississippi Review, Poetry East, Spillway, Tar River Poetry, and elsewhere. He lives and writes in the Mississippi Delta.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Texas Review Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1680031767
• ISBN 13: 9781680031768
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
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