Why dance in winter brother left and right
Why let a snowflake rest on your nose or eye-lid?
Because it's a delight
to be kissed in the snow at night
by snow bees
as Andersen called the snowflakes
in the Snow Queen.
Why make a snow angel in the field,
why brother left and right,
swim in the frozen
Songhua river
Or sculpt a little bird from ice?
Because it makes us stronger
and art can be a spring breeze.
When rust was all we had to show
Now, children can skate and ski,
brother left and right,
from Qiqihar to Jilin,
Dongbei! Ice and Snow World.
Harbin! Good spot for ice-hockey players,
Harbin! Warm hearts in the coldest places.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
Early Works is an exhaustive compilation of the first decade of the poems and stories of Z.B.McClure. Included are family photos, rare personal photos, photos of 1st draft manuscripts of many of his early poems. Also some biography and memoir materia
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