October Dedications Format: Paperback

Mang Ke is a prominent Chinese poet and painter who started the underground literary journal Jintian (Today) with Bei Dao. He has published several collections of poetry in Chinese, as well as a novel and a volume of essays. October Dedications contains a chronological selection of material focusing on previously untranslated work from the early 1970s to late '80s.Frozen Landpallbearers drift by like a cloudthe river slowly carries the sundying the water's long surface golden yellowsuch stillnesssuch vastnesssuch sadnessthe meadow of wilted flowers