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Yang Li

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the courtyard gate wasn’t shut it stood open I stand before it asking: is there anyone home? is there anyone home? is there anyone home? I asked three times there was no answer I was going to leave but I couldn’t stop myself from pushing the gate open and stepping inside

© Translation: 2006, Simon Patton

FROM "WRITTEN FOR MY BLOG": 30

© 2006, Yang Li

Yang Li

Yang Li

The spirit of Ted Berrigan is alive and well in the Chinese poet Yang Li! He too can be described as “a rather formless, artless, effortless presenter of his ordinary self and his ordinary experience” (Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry). But is crudeness the same as simplicity, and is bald statement really the same thing as directness?

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the courtyard gate wasn’t shut it stood open I stand before it asking: is there anyone home? is there anyone home? is there anyone home? I asked three times there was no answer I was going to leave but I couldn’t stop myself from pushing the gate open and stepping inside

© 2006, Simon Patton

FROM "WRITTEN FOR MY BLOG": 30

the courtyard gate wasn’t shut it stood open I stand before it asking: is there anyone home? is there anyone home? is there anyone home? I asked three times there was no answer I was going to leave but I couldn’t stop myself from pushing the gate open and stepping inside

© 2006, Simon Patton

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