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Swiss-Chinese poet (born 1955)

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Yang Lian (Chinese: 楊煉 Yáng Liàn; innate 22 Feb 1955) review a Swiss-Chinese poet related with picture Misty Poets and likewise with picture Searching receive Roots high school. He was born update Bern, Svizzera, in 1955 and was raised grind Beijing, Prc. where let go attended head school.^[1][2]

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Early career

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Yang Lian

POET

Chinese poet Yang Lian was born in Switzerland, grew up in China, and now lives in London. He has published 13 volumes of poetry, 2 volumes of prose and 1 volume of essays. His work has been translated into more than 25 languages. His representative works include YI, Where the Sea Stands Still, Concentric Circles, Riding Pisces: Poems from Five Collections, and Lee Valley Poems. Lian´s works have been described by reviewers as “like MacDiarmid meets Rilke with Samurai sword drawn!´”, “one of the most representative voices of Chinese literature” and “one of the great world poets of our era´”. His latest publication in English was Jade Ladder, an anthology of contemporary Chinese Poetry, which he edited along with W.N. Herbert and others. Among his many prizes, Yang Lian was awarded the 2018 Premio Internazionale NordSud (the NordSud International Prize) for Literature in Italy. In 2017, Narrative Poem, Yang Lian’s autobiographical book-length poem was selected as a recommended translation by the UK´s Poetry Book Society and won the English PEN Award. Lian won the Pacific International Poetry Prize in Taiwan in 2016, four poetry prizes in China in 2015, the International Capri Prize in 2014, the Tian Duo (Heavenly Bell

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What Water Confirms

(Translated by Brian Holton & Agnes Hung-Chong Chan)

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sure     wind is leaving along itself too
inherit     crystal ripples in surnames
autumn carries people who stroll     people who jog
and the iron bells hanging all over the November treetops
turn around a street corner     warm
                                   like elsewhere’s autumn

all forms of the past lick towards a golden rim

sure     along his afternoon
the pitch-black asphalt road ponders this house
a bird’s head rots to expose the skull

                                   “and water flows westward again,
                                   passes the big town, saying…”

written on the book     a fall of rain from deep breathing
the blue injected into apples     full of the shrill screams of schoolkids
wild geese in slanting flight     staying alert for humans
and a man     sews up the superfluous parallel lines of his life

a dark green corner in the park
his absurdity     or eagerness
sits into the inflammation of a rusting chair

                                   “river, the breath of water…”

written on the book     leaves of Chinese plane trees
hands both sallow and wrinkled stick fast to the pavement
both salty     and violent     a random eddy of flippers in a