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Yang Jian

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Yang Jian

Born in Anhui Province in 1967, Yang Jian worked as a factory laborer for thirteen years before writing poetry during the mid-eighties. Recognized as one of the greatest living Chinese poets, Yang Jian writes in the tradition of pastoral poetry....

The author of Remorse (2009), Ancient Bridge (2007), and Dusk (2003)—rated as one of the top ten national poetry titles of the year, his honors include the Yiu Li’an Poetry Award, the Rougang Poetry Prize, the Yulong Poetry Prize and the Chinese Media Literature Award. Also a prolific ink and wash painter, he leads a Buddhist life in Ma’anshan, Anhui.

A Couple’s Old Sutra

By Yang Jian

people on two banks / change batch after batch / like summer fireflies

Translated from Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Multilingual

Narratives of 1960

By Yang Jian

Those who ordered her to kneel on snail shells / are mostly dead

Translated from Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Multilingual

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Yang Jian

Yang Jian

Articles by Yang Jian

A Couple’s Old Sutra

Narratives of 1960