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Yu Xiuhua — Crossing Half of China to Sleep with You

Poetry Unbound

CHAPTER

Are You Shua or Not?

A poem gives you an opportunity to try out new voices. No poem is completely yourself. Even once haare trying to be self narrated themselves, are only a certain version of yourself. It's never the fulness of you. And in this poem, as i wonder, who is the speaker and the question for me isn't, is it you shua or not? The question for me is, who are they? What are they like? And they're philosophical. They're up front about sex and desire, a keen observer of landscape and politics and place. In all that, i have such admiration for whoever is speaking here,. This voice holds so much of civic observation together with deep

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