与死亡对称 * In simmetria con la morte

by Yang Lian

Yang Lian scrive in versi innumerevoli osservazioni, mostra i particolari, produce sguardi ravvicinati, immagini concatenate, solo apparentemente scollegate, stridenti ma ritmate, musicalmente intonate nei più vari registri. Queste di Yang Lian sono cose vocianti, sprizzano colori e, in ondate di versi sbattono sulla risacca della pagina-battigia una molteplicità di figure di pensiero. Figure in perpetuo movimento, ben calibrate, pur nella loro asprezza, e comunque necessarie alla forma stratificata delle sue architetture compositive. Yang Lian writes innumerable observations in verse. He shows details, produces close looks, chain images and intertwined ones, often apparently separated, strident in the sound of characters, and yet sonic, rhythmic, musically intoned with several registers. Yang Lian’s are raucous things, sparkling with colours, submerging everything with pages of verses similar to sea waves, hitting the page-shoreline and its undertow with a multiplicity of non-numerable figures of thought, always in movement, and yet all efficacious, even when they are not pleasant, but undoubtedly necessary to the stratified shape of his architectures.

224 pages, Paperback

Published March 15, 2022

About the author

Yang Lian (Chinese: 楊煉 Yáng Liàn; born 22 February 1955) is a Swiss-Chinese poet associated with the Misty Poets and also with the Searching for Roots school. He was born in Bern, Switzerland in 1955 and raised in Beijing, where he attended primary school.

His education was interrupted by the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution after 1966. In 1974 he was sent to Changping county near Beijing to undergo 're-education through labor', where he undertook a variety of tasks including digging graves. In 1977, after the Cultural Revolution had ended and Mao Zedong had died, Yang returned to Beijing where he worked with the state broadcasting service.