Jade Ladder, Contemporary Chinese Poetry (review)

http://magmapoetry.com/blog-review-13-mark-burnhope-reviews-jade-ladder-contemporary-chinese-poetry-edited-by-w-n-herbert-yang-lian-with-brian-holton-qin-xiaoyu/

Quality remains high in Part Two, with standout poems in every category. All traditions are excitingly combined in the experimental section, as in Yu Jian’s poem-file mash-up ‘Zero File’, the Names and Devices of Gu Cheng’s ‘Liquid Mercury’, or the joyous, post-ironic “tongue-twister to try”, Yang Xiaobin’s ‘Super-Cutie Language’ ...

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