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Yan Jun

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October 30

I ate my luggage
I ate the first day     the early morning cackle of crows

Ten minutes    the bamboo grove was blown open by wind
The train     the train in the refrigerator

The man in the mirror     is me
The man chasing mosquitoes on the beach    is me

30 OKTOBER

ik eet mijn bagage
ik eet de eerste dag  een krassende kraai in de ochtend

tien minuten   de bamboestengels worden door de wind uiteen geblazen
de trein   de trein in de koelkast

het figuur in de spiegel    dat ben ik
de man op het strand die muggen verjaagt     dat ben ik

Yan Jun

(China, 1973)

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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October 30

I ate my luggage
I ate the first day     the early morning cackle of crows

Ten minutes    the bamboo grove was blown open by wind
The train     the train in the refrigerator

The man in the mirror     is me
The man chasing mosquitoes on the beach    is me

October 30

I ate my luggage
I ate the first day     the early morning cackle of crows

Ten minutes    the bamboo grove was blown open by wind
The train     the train in the refrigerator

The man in the mirror     is me
The man chasing mosquitoes on the beach    is me