Gu Cheng - A Generation

24/12/2022 19 min
Gu Cheng - A Generation

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Episode Synopsis

This week we have a poem by Gu Cheng 顧城, one of the wonderboys to come out of the 1980's. He left China, immigrating to New Zealand, got a teaching job and then murdered his wife with an ax. His poetry was as sharp and succinct as his ax.