New Poetry from China 1917-2017

Editor: Ming Di & Kerry Shawn Keys

Publisher: Black Square Editions (2019)

Ming Di's second anthology, New Poetry from China 1917-2017, has been eagerly anticipated. Beginning with Hu Shi's remarkable freeverse poems of 1916, Ming Di presents us with an extraordinarily rich panoply of Chinese poems, written over the past hundred years by an extremely diverse group of poets of the last hundred years, ranging from Tibetan and Mongolian poets to those from Ming Di's own native Wuhan. As John Yau reminds us in his fine Introduction, in China, poetry is held in very high regard, and its exponents understand that poetic language, however much it may simulate ordinary speech, is carefully constructed and designed to Make It New. This anthology should have very broad appeal in the US of the twenty-first century.