World Literature Today, January 1st, 2002
Brooklyn, N.Y. Hanging Loose 2001. 111 pages. $22 ($14 paper) ISBN 1-882413-98-9 (97-0 paper)
GIVEN THE REMARKABLE popular success Ha Jin's prolific fiction has gained in the last few years, this volume of poetry will undoubtedly attract attention. Wreckage offers a sweeping view of Chinese history: the poems are arranged chronologically, from the legendary founding of the Yellow River culture by Yu the Great to the final dissolution of the empire in the early twentieth century. The essential poetic conception here is condensation, and for all practical purposes these are reduced short stor...
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