Dissident Chinese Poet Huang Xiang

[Saionji Shonagon]

SINGING ALONE

Who am I
I am the lonely soul of a waterfall
A poem
Dwelling forever in Solitude
My drifting song is a dream's wandering
Trace
My only audience
The still

- Huang Xiang (1962)

I recently stumbled onto this program during the Olympics and was blown away by the poetry of Huang Xiang as featured here. It's worth watching the whole thing:
current.com/items/88965764_exiled_for_poems

More on Huang
www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/793
mclc.osu.edu/rc/pubs/huangxiang.htm

A review of an edition of his work, translated into English.
mclc.osu.edu/rc/pubs/reviews/lidian.htm
The kicker: a copy lists at $129.95
www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=5735&pc=9

[inume]

Thank you for posting this; what a powerful and sad story.

You can say anything you want in the West, but most won't listen to you - In the East, you can't express yourself upon pain of torture or death, and EVERYONE is listening.