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Yu Jian

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Opus 112

whoever notices how many leaves the wind
knocks from these trees
and whoever sees this many leaves
on such a beautiful, sun-lit afternoon
suddenly falling all of them dying
is bound to shudder

1988

OPUS 112

Yu Jian

(China, 1954)

For Yu Jian, poetry is largely a matter of sounding his world with words. Born on 8 August 1954 in the south-western Chinese province of Yunnan, he contracted serious pneumonia when only two years old. An overdose of streptomycin saved his life, but left him with diminished hearing in one ear. Yu Jian accepts this disability of his with philosophical aplomb. In an autobiographical note he once ...

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Opus 112

whoever notices how many leaves the wind
knocks from these trees
and whoever sees this many leaves
on such a beautiful, sun-lit afternoon
suddenly falling all of them dying
is bound to shudder

1988

Opus 112

whoever notices how many leaves the wind
knocks from these trees
and whoever sees this many leaves
on such a beautiful, sun-lit afternoon
suddenly falling all of them dying
is bound to shudder

1988