The Wild Great Wall

By Zhu Zhu Translated by Dong Li A poetry collection of desire, memory, and historical reflection. Publication Date: 2018-06-26 Paperback: 9781944700690 Description Though revered in literary circles, Chinese poet Zhu Zhu remains on the periphery, writing quietly. His work, lucidly rendered by accomplished translator Dong Li, weaves slowly through personal and larger histories to reveal an astute, painterly vision of the world. Selected from an oeuvre spanning 1990 to the present, the poems of The Wild Great Wall animate seeming minutiae and collective memory to interrogate the nature of time and the encounters that occupy it. Tight as a wound rope, they bind to the interiority of the mind and wait to be unraveled. Reviews “Embers, when dark enough, can be used for mirrors."  The three decades of Zhu Zhu’s poetry collected in The Wild Great Wall salvage a darkling mirrorwork from the remains of what’s burned away.  A resonant poet of desire, memory, and historical reflection, Zhu Zhu