Second Drifting (erdu piaoliu) is the fourth book of Chinese poetry by
Ouyang Yu, currently based in China, which collects more than 100 poems
originally written by Ouyang that cover a period of thirty years from the
1970s to the early 21st century, many published as well as unpublished. They
were written in places as diverse as Huangzhou, Wuhan, Shanghai, Kingsbury,
West Heidelberg, Sydney and the Blue Mountains. Some of the poems are
lyrical, some are prose-poems and others are sequences, all packed with
emotion with direct references to the contemporary life, Chinese or
Australian. Over 300 pages with a cover designed by Shi Xiaojun featuring
photographs taken by Ouyang in Holland, England and Lisbon, the book has
just been published by Otherland Publishing in Beijing and are now available
through the internet.
Even if you can't read Chinese because of your monolinguality (no insult
intended), you can purchase a copy as a collector's item.
Price: A$34.95 plus postage/handling (individuals) and A$44.95 plus
postage/handling (institutions)
Western Erotic Love Poetry in Chinese Translation, a Special Issue of
Otherland (No. 10, 2005)
Banned for 17 years since 1988, this is an anthology that collects some 200
poems by poets from USA, UK, Canada, Australia and the Chinese diaspora that
Ouyang Yu translated and edited, with the help of Zhong Dao, editor of Poem
Reference, an underground poetry journal based in Beijing. The anthology
went back 17 years to 1988 when Ouyang Yu was a postgraduate student in
English and Australian literature. It was first accepted by Anhui Literature
and Arts Publishing House in 1989 but was subsequently censored and rejected
by the same publisher on account of the June 4th Incident, 1989. After many
rejections by many publishers in China and after many of the poets died
since their work was translated and included, Otherland Publishing has
eventually brought the book out in a world where erotic love is being widely
practised but not allowed into print.
Poets in the anthology include John Updike, Anne Sexton, A. D. Hope, Gwen
Harwood, Gig Ryan and many others. If you want to know who else has been
included, send me a query email.
Professor Ouyang Yu
English Department, Wuhan University
Wuhan, China
Ph: 001186 27 6875 3269 (office)
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