Modern Poetry 100 Poems · Blue Volume

Author: Cai Tianxin
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: The series is edited by Dr. Cai Tianxin, a scholar with expertise in both humanities and sciences, and a poet who has traveled the world. He, along with ten renowned poets and translators from China, carefully selected and annotated 200 poems. Although the number of works is limited, they encompass five continents and over 40 countries, covering a wide range of poetic schools such as Symbolism, Surrealism, Expressionism, the New York School, and the Confessional School, as well as the poetic landscape of almost the entire 20th century. It is worth noting that all the annotators are famous contemporary poets passionate about translating foreign poetry. They include Huang Canran, Xi Chuan, Wang Jiaxin, Zhang Shuguang, Wang Jianzhao, Shu Cai, Sang Ke, Hu Xudong, Zhou Zan, Zhao Xia, and Cai Tianxin. Eight of them are also professors or associate professors at universities and research institutions. In a sense, this has become a kind of public opinion poll among poets—for example, most of the selected poets have only one work included, while the Argentine poet Borges has as many as seven. If your eyes have strayed far from poetry for a long time, then please take a break for a moment.