Full Description
A painter and writer, Mu Xin (1927-2011) received his artistic education in cosmopolitan Shanghai. During the Chinese Civil War, he fled to Taiwan; at the war's conclusion, he returned to the mainland. Having survived persecution at home, for two decades he lived in New York, and resettled in his hometown, Wuzhen, at the end of his life.
In old age, a reclusive Mu Xin enjoyed literary renown in the Sinophone sphere. Of his oeuvre, he was most content with his poetry. Toward Bravery, selected and translated by Mingyuan Hu, is the first collection of Mu Xin's poetry to appear in English. Published in 2017, it is reissued in 2022 in a bilingual format.
Contents
Slowness Past
J J
Tree on a Moor
My Fluttering Lust
To H. Heine
Jackson Heights
Nocturnal Letters, New York
On Caviar
The Bugle
After Seeing 'Van Gogh in Arles'
Still Worth a Mass?
A Sweet Hedgehog
Some Night, Fourteen Years Ago
Eve of Attending Adams Attic
Old Notes of Kafka
Window in May
We Had Youth
Small-town Artist
Toward Bravery
Wrinkles of a Poet
