ABSTRACT

One of the most daringly experimental poetic talents in China today, Tang Yaping was born in Dabashan, Sichuan Province. She has published several books of poems, which include The Wild Moon, The Black Desert, and The Moon's Expressions. The cave's darkness covers day and night bats flock and whirl around the arched walls the wings flap with charms sinister and lewed woman in one glorious instant disappears into a blind universe whose stretched hand pointing a skyless way out that bony hand wants to knead and shape female roundness into angles hand up comes the clouds. I've asked a man to come and brag my mind was a blank before he arrived let down a purple curtain, turned on a rosy wall lamp my black nightgown swished over the room once he knocked three times on the door then entered carrying a black umbrella.