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I Live Alone
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781925780185
Publisher: Puncher & Wattmann
Published: May 20 2019
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Perhaps I am Willing
perhaps I am willing
to be with you every day
raising ducks.
my heart, for the rest of my life
is a window pane
cleaned till it shines.
early in the morning we go somewhere near
to the simple-minded creek
the sun spreading our skins
with a deep glaze
and the healthy grass reaching over our knees...
Born in December 1969, Lu Ye is a Chinese poet. She did her B.A. and M.A. at Shandong University and is now teaching at the University of Jinan, China. She has won a number of poetry awards, including the National Award for the Young Poets by Poetry Monthly (2005), the People's Literature Award (2011) and the Distinguished Achievement Award by Poetry Exploration (2016). She has also been elected one of the Top 10 Best Young Women Poets of the New Century, awarded by Poetry Monthly, the Chinese Writers Association (2006). She was the poet-in-residence in Capital Normal University, Beijing, China (2005), the poet-in-residence of the KHN Center for the Arts in NE, USA (2008), and a visiting poet and scholar in Creighton Univesity, Omaha, NE, USA (2006 and 2016 respectively). To date, she has published a number of poetry collections and novels in China.
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