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Seventy-Five Contemporary Chinese Poems has as its motto what is probably the best-known passage in the work of John Donne: "No man is an island, entire of itself . . . any man's death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee," in Chinese translation.
This publication appears to be a sequel to Beiling's Thirty-Eight Contemporary Chinese Poems (当代中国诗三十八首), now explicitly distinguishing the younger poets selected for this anthology from "Bei Dao etc" (北岛等), arguing that the works of the latter have already been published in other, "better" forms - with a contestable degree of generalization, just like in late 1980s fashionable phrases like "the Bei Dao's" (北岛们).
Contributors include many poets from Beijing and Shanghai, and a few from Hangzhou, Sichuan and elsewhere. Zhai Yongming features with excerpts from her groundbreaking poem series «Woman» (published as an unofficial individual collection in 1984).
Seventy-Five Contemporary Chinese Poems appears to be a one-time multiple-author anthology in (unofficial) book form, rather than the first issue of a (discontinued) journal.
Text in simplified characters (Jiantizi)