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Xiao Kaiyu

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Xiao Kaiyu

Xiao Kaiyu was born in 1960 in Sichuan province, and trained and worked as a doctor of Chinese medicine. He is the author of several volumes of poetry and has published poems and essays in various official and unofficial journals in China, and founded three underground poetry magazines. He spent a number of years in Germany. In recent years he has taught Chinese literature at universities in Shanghai and the central Chinese city of Kaifeng. His poems have been translated into German, English, Italian, French, Japanese, and Serbian.

Articles by Xiao Kaiyu

Made in the Rain
By Xiao Kaiyu
We see so much that is strange.Moonshine and brief lightningflash across fish and algae in the river.Birds on the banks land and leave,transporting mud and twigs.The air is fresh.Birth, growth and deathorbit…
Translated from Chinese by Alistair Noon
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