Wind Says

"Subtle and compelling, Bai Hua is among the best in contemporary Chinese poetry."—David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University

"Fish"

Unfathomable, the fish can't sing
swimming from silence to silence

It needs things, it needs to speak
but it stares blindly at a stone

The strength of endurance is too precise
Senility urges it to walk the road of kindness

What is it? Image of a people
or an act of soundless immersion?

The face of grievance veers toward shadow
the silence of death toward error

Born as metapho...