Qing Liu, stands for Pure School, its book is a Chinese concurrent poetry collection emulates Chinese ancient poetry by the poet, Sha Yan. Sha Yan writes both in Chinese and in English, and he already has four English works published under his English pen name, Sha Yan. As the title suggests, Qing Liu Book carries the word Qing, meaning emulating from Qing Dynasty scholar works, and it carries the word school in Chinese, then it is exclusively the scholarly work. And the poetry works themselves have the scent from Song and Ming Dynasty, meaning Confucius School of idealized philosophy of two dynasties. The book also had pure and refreshing, else pine, snow and light scent. By writing these poetry works, Sha Yan proclaims him as a Chinese scholar living in this contemporary world, in fact he did study Confucius, Buddhism and Taoism philosophy in his private time, and thus these studies enrich his living as a Chinese scholarly man. Sha Yan found he writes better poetry works and works in general in Chinese than in English, and this exclusive book contains 89 Chinese ancient poetry works would be his first published work in Chinese, even though four works of his are found in English. By publishing the book, Sha Yan established his stylish thinking and the status of the Confucius philosophy man.
Mary Angela Nangini's poems celebrate the richness of life and love. From the city to cottage-country and the roads in between, Nangini explores the changing seasons of her varied region. (This book will soon be reprinted in hard cover.)
