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Guide to Recollecting the Future: Selected Poems

Guide to Recollecting the Future: Selected Poems

Yang, Xiaobin
Morse, Canaan

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $19.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 10, 2026

ISBN10: 193889037X
ISBN13: 9781938890376
Publisher: Zephyr Press
Published: Nov 10 2026
Pages: 136
Language: English
In this debut collection in English, one of the most famous poets of the Sinosphere offers biting musings on politics, ideologies, and mortality.

Yang Xiaobin is a household name in both Chinese and Taiwanese poetry circles. He was part of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, and after the government crackdown, left for graduate school in America. While in the US, he began a prolific career as a poet before moving to Taiwan, where he now lives, writes, and teaches. Several of the book's poems satirize the use of -ism ideology, which was popular among Chinese intellectuals after the country opened up in 1978. Others come from his Guidebook series, offering instructions on different aspects of a rapidly commercializing lifestyle. While most of the poems are recent, the book will include some of his most representative and best-known older poems, without which no first collection could be complete. The volume includes a critical introduction by the translator.

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