Modern Poetry 100 Poems / Red Volume

Author: Cai Tianxin
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: If your gaze has strayed far from poetry for a long time, then, please pause and rest for a while with 100 Modern Poems (Red Volume). The series is edited by Dr. Cai Tianxin, a scholar who excels in both humanities and sciences and a poet who has traveled the world. He, along with ten renowned domestic poets and translators, carefully selected and annotated 200 poems. Though the number of works is not large, they encompass five continents and over 40 countries, including various poetic schools such as Symbolism, Surrealism, Expressionism, the New York School, and the Confessional School, covering almost the entire poetic landscape of the 20th century. It is worth mentioning that all the annotators are young, contemporary famous poets passionate about introducing foreign poetry. They are: 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 also 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 gaze has strayed far from poetry for a long time, then, please pause and rest for a while.