Issue #1 Winter 2002
Poems Dedicated to Van Gogh
by Xue Di
Church |
Road |
Poppy Field |
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(click on title to open poem)
Xue Di was born in Beijing in 1957. He is the author of three volumes of
collected works in Chinese. In English translation, he
has published four books: An
Ordinary Day, Circumstances, Heart
into Soil, and Flames. His work has appeared in numerous American
journals and anthologies. Xue Di's work has been translated into English,
French, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Japanese. Since shortly after the Tiananmen
Square Massacre in 1989, he has been a fellow in Brown University's Freedom to
Write Program in Providence, Rhode Island. Xue Di
is a two-time recipient of the
Hellman/Hammett Award, sponsored by Human Rights Watch.