
Explosion
by Chen Nianxi
About This Novel
"Explosion" is Chen Nianxi's masterpiece of poetry and his most important work as a "miner's poet". It contains 153 of his poems, from the turbulent life in the mines to the urban survival in Pi Village, Beijing, and covers his difficult explosions Working life, there are also his daily thoughts that combine humanistic imagery and historical nostalgia. The openness and desolation, care and compassion, present a person who is closest to the land. The poems written with a weather-beaten pen have not given up even if they are pushed by fate in various ways. "I spent my middle age at a depth of five thousand meters/I exploded the rock formations again and again/Through this/I reassembled my life." The weight of each word struck down contains tremendous power.
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