Digging (Poetry)

Digging (Poetry)
Ren Yi
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Paperback
h210 x 148mm - 164pg
1 Dec 2020 AU
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9781925780819
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DiggingSquatting, my wife was digging in the field While I was digging, sitting on the ridgeMy wife was digging for the sweet potatoes And I was digging for poetryWith an easy dig My wife dug out a sweet potatoBut I spent a long time Managing to dig out only a single lineThe more my wife dug the more delighted she was But the more I dug, the more frustrated I wasThe field where my wife had dug for the sweet potatoes Had furrows, long and shortMeandering like lines of poetry Whereas the poems I had dugHad each line so knotty That it resembled the sweet potato, gnawed by the ground lizardRen Yi (Ren Zhilin), born in the 1950s, is from Shanghai. He is now deputy secretary-general of the Pujiang Literature Society, deputy general manager of Pujiang Literature Exchange Centre for Literature and Arts, Minhang, Shanghai, and an editor of Pujiang Literature.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781925780819
Published: 1 Dec 2020
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann
Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann
Format: Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 148mm
Pages: 164

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