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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

Crow
By Xiao Kaiyu
I learned the lines of this noun / one bright day in the classroom.
Translated from Chinese by Alistair Noon
December 2nd, 1997, at Night
By Xiao Kaiyu
A blizzard lures us toward Poland, / bringing us almost to the border.
Translated from Chinese by Alistair Noon
The Sinologist
By Xiao Kaiyu
To leave the airport is to feel you've got off at the wrong stop.
Translated from Chinese by Alistair Noon
Made in the Rain
By Xiao Kaiyu
We see so much that is strange.
Translated from Chinese by Alistair Noon
The Five O’Clock Graveyard
By Xiao Kaiyu
I'll be opposite you, opposite you, lying prone.
Translated from Chinese by Alistair Noon