Renowned Taiwanese Poet Yang Mu Dies
"Through more than two dozen collections of poetry and prose, Yang has inspired generations of Chinese-language poets and won numerous awards....Nils Goran David Malmqvist, a former member of the Swedish Academy’s selection committee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, reportedly thought that Yang should have been a contender for the prize."
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What Sparks Poetry:Marianne Boruch on Carl Sandburg's "Limited""A solid first person speaker lives in, and guides Sandburg’s poem which is both contained and expansive in its imagery, those steely trains so tightly made crossing a continent of grassland and farms and woods and cities and poverty and fortune. There’s thinking (via assertion and the underground parenthetical) and conversation in the piece, a sense of myth and miraculous in the ordinary, rust and ashes waiting in what is snappy-fast and gleaming. Nothing is as it seems." |
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