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He Xiaozhu

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Stars of Xichang

Like grapes
crystal, or dew drops
those stars
are
hanging in Xichang’s sky

Jimu Langge
Zhong Mao, Chen Jie, Qin Feng
my family and I
walk beneath this kind of starry sky

© Translation: 2007, d dayton

STARS OF XICHANG

© 2007, He Xiaozhu
From: After Writing a 1,000 Poems
Publisher: Koopee.com,

He Xiaozhu

He Xiaozhu

He Xiaozhu is a poet of the periphery in China, both imagined and real. Born in 1963 to a Han mother and a Miao (also known as Hmong) father in Pengshui county, Sichuan (now Chongqing), his mixed ethnic identity and rural home deeply shaped his view of the world and language. As an outsider to mainstream Chinese culture, he was motivated from an early age to pursue a poetics of difference and, ...

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Stars of Xichang

Like grapes
crystal, or dew drops
those stars
are
hanging in Xichang’s sky

Jimu Langge
Zhong Mao, Chen Jie, Qin Feng
my family and I
walk beneath this kind of starry sky

© 2007, d dayton
From: After Writing a 1,000 Poems

Stars of Xichang

Like grapes
crystal, or dew drops
those stars
are
hanging in Xichang’s sky

Jimu Langge
Zhong Mao, Chen Jie, Qin Feng
my family and I
walk beneath this kind of starry sky

© 2007, d dayton

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