The Silence of the Forest: a Collection of Poems
by Wu Xinghua
About This Novel
The third generation of masters after Chen Yinke and Qian Zhongshu were both conversant in both China and the West. With more than 100 additional poems, "the turning point of new Chinese poetry" - the complete picture of Wu Xinghua's poetry is presented for the first time in fifty years. "The Silence of the Forest: A Collection of Poems" contains all of Wu Xinghua's poetry creations from 1934 to his death. On the basis of the first edition, more than a hundred poems were added by the Wu family, and were completely revised based on the original manuscript. It includes the famous work "The Silence of the Forest", the "New Odes of Ancient Matters" lyric poems that modernize ancient Chinese epic poems, "Execution of the Order", "Before Stealing the Soldier Talisman", "Beiyuan Shichu", and long poems "Xijia" and "The Painter's Manual" that use Western poetry rhythms to explore the possibility of new Chinese poetry. The most complete Wu Xinghua's poems over the years are presented to domestic readers.
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