For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey Through a Chinese Prison
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For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey Through a Chinese Prison

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Title: For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey Through a Chinese Prison Author: Liao Yiwu ISBN: 9780547892634 Publisher: New Harvest Published: 2013 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good B 1632427 Publisher Description: WINNER OF THE 2012 GERMAN BOOK TRADE PEACE PRIZE In June 1989, news of the Tiananmen Square protests and its bloody resolution reverberated throughout the world. A young poet named Liao Yiwu, who had until then led an apolitical bohemian existence, found his voice in that moment. Like the solitary man who stood firmly in front of a line of tanks, Liao proclaimed his outrage--and his words would be his weapon. For a Song and a Hundred Songs captures the four brutal years Liao spent in jail for writing the incendiary poem "Massacre." Through the power and beauty of his prose, he reveals the bleak reality of crowded Chinese prisons--th

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