Push Open the Window: Contemporary Poetry from China

"[It] was Tomas Tranströmer who said that poetry was like the notes kids pass back and forth in the classroom, while that history teacher drones away at the podium. We are going to be hearing a lot about China in the next decade, about its economy, its foreign and environmental policies. It's going to be the work of translation that will give glimpses—human glimpses—at what's going on."—Robert Hass, The Believer

Forty-nine of China's finest contemporary poets are represented in this luminous...