Mang Ke Quotes

Mang Ke Quotes

Mang Ke , born in 1951, is a prominent Chinese poet and co-founder of the underground literary journal Jintian , which appeared irregularly between 1978 and 1980 before being shut down by the Chinese Government.Considered a member of the Misty Poets, Mang Ke's works were never officially recognized and appeared primarily as photocopies.Mang Ke is also an accomplished painter. Wikipedia

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“Do you see it?
Do you see that sunflower, raising its head
Glaring at the sun?
Its head almost eclipses the sun
Yet even when there is no sun
Its head still glows.”

Mang Ke

"Sunflower in the Sun" ( trans. Jonathan Stalling and Yibing Huang https://english.chass.ncsu.edu/freeverse/Archives/Winter_2010/prose/PushOpenTheWindow.htm)

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