For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey Through a Chinese Prison by Wenguang Huang, Liao Yiwu

For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey Through a Chinese Prison

Wenguang Huang, Liao Yiwu

432 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction memoir poetry challenging reflective slow-paced

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In the spring of 1989, news of the Tiananmen Square protests and their bloody resolution reverberated throughout the world. A young poet named Liao Yiwu, who had up until then lead an apolitical bohemian existence, found his voice in that moment, ...

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