Nameless Flowers: Selected Poems of Gu Cheng

Regarded as China's finest contemporary poet, Gu Cheng (1956-1993) has captivated readers worldwide.

While critics were calling him the harbinger of a troubled and new Obscure movement, the generation that came of age during the Cultural Revolution was taking his poems to heart. Nameless Flowers traces Gu Cheng's work from the lurid early lyrics that made him a literary star to the late expressions of dark beauty that predicted his second exile and tragic death. Though rooted in classical Ch...