A Coach Heading Towards the Provinces
Born in dire poverty but writing poetry all his life, even when he ran a successful business, Xifeng Yedu is one of the Chinese oral poets who doesn't belong but must write his kind of oral poetry that mixes politics with sex and transcends them, with a fine sense of the Chinese language, in a post-China and Covid-19 environ, in which he is trying to eke out a poetic existence in what is already a Chinese Melbourne.
Born in the 1970s in north Shaanxi, Xifeng Yedu began writing poetry from when he was a teenager. In the 1990s, he went with the stream of reform and opening up, and became an entrepreneur in Shenzhen, running a business till 2020 while writing poetry continuously. His work has been published in many China-based journals or magazines as well as on the social media. He has so far published two collections of poetry, The Inflatable Doll (2011) and The Beauty of the Unknown (2012). He now lives in Melbourne.
Author: Xifeng Yedu
Format: Paperback, 142 pages, 148mm x 210mm, 195 g
Published: 2022, Puncher and Wattmann, Australia
Genre: Poetry Texts & Poetry Anthologies
Born in dire poverty but writing poetry all his life, even when he ran a successful business, Xifeng Yedu is one of the Chinese oral poets who doesn't belong but must write his kind of oral poetry that mixes politics with sex and transcends them, with a fine sense of the Chinese language, in a post-China and Covid-19 environ, in which he is trying to eke out a poetic existence in what is already a Chinese Melbourne.
Born in the 1970s in north Shaanxi, Xifeng Yedu began writing poetry from when he was a teenager. In the 1990s, he went with the stream of reform and opening up, and became an entrepreneur in Shenzhen, running a business till 2020 while writing poetry continuously. His work has been published in many China-based journals or magazines as well as on the social media. He has so far published two collections of poetry, The Inflatable Doll (2011) and The Beauty of the Unknown (2012). He now lives in Melbourne.