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Social Media Overview. Terms and Conditions. Privacy Statement. Login to my Brill account Create Brill Account. Chapter Twenty. Authors: Z. Hong and M. Login via Institution. Purchase instant access PDF download and unlimited online access :. Add to Cart. The authorities, however, could not have arranged his perverted demise any better than how it unfolded naturally.
His playwright father raised pigs, and Gu Cheng cultivated a lifelong love for nature. This passion for wildlife led him to spend his exile on a secluded New Zealand island. He refused to learn English, lest it cloud his Chinese abilities, and thus relied on his English-speaking wife for everything — even purchasing condoms for him and his girlfriend.
He was eventually driven crazy er after his girlfriend ran away, and he began to suspect that his wife was cheating on him. He axed her to death and then hanged himself in the back yard — but not before telling his sister, their next-door neighbor, what he was about to do. She did nothing to stop him. As for the movie, the acting was decent enough and the cast of characters dreadfully attractive, but everything about its production was obviously contrived to expose his manic perversion, from the alluring gazes of every young female character to the equally unimaginative script.
Everyone else was a caricature, comprising a sensationalist story that could only be made into an equally sensationalist movie. The Misty poets themselves are a diverse group of personalities, in my opinion. Gu Cheng undoubtedly has the most tabloid-friendly story of those mentioned, but he is by no means the only one of interest.
Email alerts Latest Issue. Related Topics Bei Dao. Misty poetry. Duke University Press W. Main St. All Rights Reserved. Close Modal. This site uses cookies. By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our privacy policy. We made eye contact and both burst out laughing. Pretty cute. I left the conference with a new poet and friend Xi Chuan link different than previous one.
Like Bei Dao, he is completely comfortable being genuinely kind. His poetry stood out among the recitations, his understated attitude all but testifying to the latent passion of his words.
You can read a few of his poems here. I have his friend and translator Lucas Klein to thank for having introduced us, and also for having told me about the conference in the first place. I finished the weekend writing a thesis prospectus in my Chungking Mansion matchbox. It was so wonderfully reminiscent of Gordon Matthews. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account.
You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Email Address:. The Misty Poets Project Recommendations. I leave behind no testament Only a pen, to give to my mother.
In a time without heroes, I only want to be an individual. The horizon of peace Separates the order of the living and dead. I can only choose the heavens And I will not kneel on the ground Allowing the executioner to look tall The better to obscure the wind of freedom. From the bullet holes of the stars There will seep forth a blood-red dawn. Ai Qing thus may have been criticizing out of necessity, as it was expected of his generation of previously persecuted intellectuals to criticize the new poets, lest they also face a second round of persecution.
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