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Jin Haishu

Side by side

Getting close

we’re estranged by conversation:
each little remark brings us that little bit further
apart
mutual retreat is our way of getting close
we hold up our faces
let them do the talking
as we grow stranger

GETTING CLOSE

Jin Haishu

(China, 1961)

Jin Haishu pushes his tough side forward in his poetry: sex, drugs and rigmarole are themes that leap out from the page/screen. Even so, he does not try to hide his philosophical side, but it sneaks into his work more sideways than front on. “Bravery,” he writes in a poem to his girlfriend, “means fighting to keep the truth before you in any situation . . .” and I think that’s what he’s aiming ...

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