Shao Yanyang's Poetry Collection · Doggerel Poetry

Author: Shao Yanxiang
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This collection is a poetry anthology by the renowned writer Shao Yanxiang, encompassing the majority of his classical verse poems written from 1958 to the beginning of the 21st century. Most of the poems have been published for the first time. Shao, modestly, referred to his poems as "doggerel" as they were not considered grand or refined. Over the past four decades, his thoughts and feelings have been transformed into poetic lines, including songs of praise, self-revelations, and satire. Through these, one can glimpse the complex inner journey of an intellectual in New China, making it a personal "history of the soul." The appendix includes dozens of cartoons by the masters Ding Cong and Fang Tang, adding significant color to the entire book.