Choir

Author: Du Malan
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: In the 1990s, a large number of foreign literary works were introduced to China, bridging Chinese literature with world literature and giving rise to many outstanding poets. Due to the collision and debate of literary concepts, people held firm to their own views. Because of the greater focus on disputes and topics, many excellent poetic works were overlooked among them. This volume showcases ten poets with diverse styles, yet it reveals their extraordinary clarity and self-respect in practicing poetic language and space. The Choir collects nearly 200 poems by Du Malan from 1992 to 2002, from which it is evident to see the evolution of the controversial "Malan style" with its "retrogression" in style. As a scholar who enjoys completely isolated personal writing, Du Malan's poetry is characterized by both wise and profound rationality and rich, lingering human emotions. The Choir is Du Malan's only publicly published personal poetry collection to date, radiating the long-dormant light of the author's soul and possessing rare textual value and aesthetic beauty in contemporary poetry.