A phone call from Dalian

In a 1989 interview, Han Dong declared that he wrote poetry for nobody, not even himself. He likens the poet to a roofer: "I write poetry for the constitution of poetry, just as a roofer gives no thought to who lives in the house whose roof he is covering--he builds to meet the criteria of what a house is. Poetry is not subordinate to purposes beyond itself: its highest purpose is to be without purpose."

שנה

2013

שפה

English

סדרה

Jintian series of contemporary literature

מהדורות

1

עמודים

106

ISBN

9789629969042

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata