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Yi Sha

Side by side

Sunday

in an art book
I came across
two paintings by Van Gogh
they hadn’t been mounted on banknotes
these two celebrated works
were unremarkable paintings
one was called Gaugin’s Chair
the other
Van Gogh’s Chair
although I didn’t go so far
as to buy the book
I was
so moved by what I saw
that I was like
“a chariot driven south
to get north”
and I caught the wrong trolley bus
home

© Translation: 2004, Simon Patton

SUNDAY

© 1994, Yi Sha
From: Yi Sha shixuan
Publisher: Qinghai Renmin Chubanshe, Xining

Yi Sha

Yi Sha

Yi Sha kan tot de zogenaamde ‘volkse’ stroming in de Chinese poëzie worden gerekend, die zich door haar thema’s en taalgebruik afzet tegen de meer ‘intellectuelere’ dichters. Yi Sha is een echte provocateur, die als dichter en polemist menig schandaal heeft veroorzaakt, niet alleen door het soort onderwerpen dat hij behandelt, maar vooral door de manier waarop hij die neerzet. ...

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Waiting for Godot

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Who Knows, Perhaps It Was

Common Knowledge

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Sunday

Close

SUNDAY

From: Yi Sha shixuan

Sunday

in an art book
I came across
two paintings by Van Gogh
they hadn’t been mounted on banknotes
these two celebrated works
were unremarkable paintings
one was called Gaugin’s Chair
the other
Van Gogh’s Chair
although I didn’t go so far
as to buy the book
I was
so moved by what I saw
that I was like
“a chariot driven south
to get north”
and I caught the wrong trolley bus
home

© 2004, Simon Patton

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