Blue White Water

A beautiful bilingual sequence of lyrical prose poems addressed to a distant love, and two illuminating interviews with the renown Chinese poet.

"Xue Di's poetry is marked by an alert intelligence and a quiet authority. His work combines composure with force, lyric sensitivity with an expansive sense of scale. Rooted in attentiveness to the material world, these poems achieve resonance through precision rather than excess, offering a measured gravity rare in contemporary verse."-Tang Ming

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