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Contemporary Chinese Experimental Poetry shares with other mid-1980s publications its diverse composition and visual presentation but also its ambitious feel, palpable in its inclusiveness at a national level and its attention to foreign poetry. It includes Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," in Daozi's Chinese translation. Ginsberg's poetry (and especially "Howl") is a near-ubiquitous foreign influence on PRC poetry. Remarkably, it is cited as a source of inspiration by authors of divergent if not opposite persuasion. (Around 2010, a library visitor abused our trust and cut out Haizi's "The Source and the Bird" (p 21).
Fortunately, this publication is one of a small number of which we hold two copies. Hence, viewed optimistically, if we take the theft as research data to illustrate Haizi's apotheosis after his suicide, it presents a gain not a loss.)
Text in simplified characters (Jiantizi)