Narrative Poem by Yang Lian Summer Recommended Translation translation chair of the 2015 T

chair of the 2015 T

📚Eve Esfandiari-Denney

 Times Literary Supplement

          there they sit like statues of sitting dogs

from daring new angles

Narrative Poem by Yang Lian <b> Summer Recommended Translation </b> translation chair of the 2015 TPoetry Book Society Recommended Translation Summer 2017 Before and since his enforced exile from 1989, Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and influential poets in China. Widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world literature, he has been translated into many languages. Narrative Poem, Yang Lians most personal work to date, is built around a series of family photographs, the first of which was taken on the day