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Yan Jun

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July 7

Vomited haiku:
the ox butcher looks like the ox

© Translation: 2011, Ao Wang and Eleanor Goodman
Publisher: First published on PIW, , 2011

7 JULI

uitgespuwde haiku:
de koeienslachter lijkt op een koe

© Vertaling: 2011, Audrey Heijns
Publisher: 2011, First published on PIW,

© 2009, Yan Jun

Yan Jun

Yan Jun

In recent years, the poet and musician Yan Jun has been writing mainly diary poems and explications of aspects of contemporary China, along with allusions to classical subject matter. One feature of Yan Jun’s poetry is its vitality and rapid turnover of images, one following on rhythmically from the other. In ‘Charter Sonnet’, for instance, each line begins urgently with the repeated phras...

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July 7

Vomited haiku:
the ox butcher looks like the ox

© 2011, Ao Wang and Eleanor Goodman
Publisher: 2011, First published on PIW,

July 7

Vomited haiku:
the ox butcher looks like the ox

© 2011, Ao Wang and Eleanor Goodman
Publisher: 2011, First published on PIW,

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