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Song Xiaoxian

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Alarm Clock

she was supposed to buy an alarm clock
but came back with a rooster

and a few kilos of wheat
in place of batteries

© Translation: 2005, Simon Patton

ALARM CLOCK

© 2005, Song Xiaoxian

Song Xiaoxian

Song Xiaoxian

The events and energies of mundane, down-in-the-dirt reality inspire much of the poetry written in China today. However, against this imposing godlessness, Song Xiaoxian opposes a conspicuous religious element, and in poems written in plain, unmystical language he expresses his very personal sense of the divine.

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Alarm Clock

Slight Breeze

Child of Sorrow

Love

Blind Girl

Enormous Appetite

1958

Notice

Borrowed Light

God

Close

Alarm Clock

she was supposed to buy an alarm clock
but came back with a rooster

and a few kilos of wheat
in place of batteries

© 2005, Simon Patton

Alarm Clock

she was supposed to buy an alarm clock
but came back with a rooster

and a few kilos of wheat
in place of batteries

© 2005, Simon Patton

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