Must bend over and pull weeds until afternoon

Author: Xiao Hai
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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. The ten poets featured in this volume have diverse styles, but at the same time, one can glimpse their exceptional clarity and self-respect in practicing poetic language and space. They began writing in 1979. They have published over a thousand poems both domestically and internationally. Their poems have been selected for over a hundred collections and translated into multiple languages. Must Bend Over to Weeds Until After Noon includes the representative works of poet Xiao Hai, among which the series poems Village, Pastoral, and Beilin River had a wide impact on the poetic scene.