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Description - A Tower Built Downwards: 一座向下修建的塔 by Yang Lian

A Tower Built Downwards is the latest instalment of poetry from one of the most innovative and influential poets from China.idely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world literature, he has been translated into many languages.

The different sections short poems, sequences, and one long poem form a single comprehensive statement of Yang's recent explorations. It is rooted in his living experience of the historical retrogression of Hong Kong, the disaster of Covid-19, the global spiritual crisis, as well as his personal sadness at events such as his father's death.

Yang Lian's work was criticised in China in 1983 and formally banned in 1989 when he organised memorial services for the dead of Tiananmen while in New Zealand. This edition of A Tower Built Downwards contains the full, unabridged collection, including poems that were removed for its publication in China.

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