Xue Di

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

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Xue Di was born in Beijing in 1957.  He is the author of three volumes of collected works and one book of criticism on contemporary Chinese poetry in Chinese.  In English translation, he has published three full length books, Another Kind of Tenderness, An Ordinary Day and Heart into Soil, and four chapbooks, Forgive, Cat’s Eye in a Splintered Mirror, Circumstances and Flames.  His work has appeared in numerous American journals and anthologies and has been translated into English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Japanese.  Since shortly after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, he has been a fellow in Brown University’s Freedom to Write Program in Providence, Rhode Island.  Xue Di is a two-time recipient of the Hellman/Hammett Award, sponsored by Human Rights Watch. 

List of publications / Xue Di

Publications in English Translation / Books

Zone
Yefief World Editions, Forthcoming, 2005

Forgive
Winner of the 2003 Blue Light Poetry Prize
Blue Light Press, 2005

Another Kind of Tenderness
Litmus Press, 2004
http://www.litmuspress.org/litmus/xuedi.html

Cat’s Eye in a Splintered Mirror
Winner of the 2003 West Town Press Chapbook Competition
West Town Press, 2004.

An Ordinary Day
Winner of the 2001 Jane Kenyon Award
Alice James Books, 2002
http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/ordinary_day.html

Circumstances
Duration Press, 2000
http://www.durationpress.com/authors/xue/home.html

Heart into Soil
Burning Deck Press & Lost Roads Publishers, 1998
http://www.webdelsol.com/Lost_Roads/di.htm

Flames
paradigm press, 1995.  Second edition, 2000
http://www.durationpress.com/paradigm/flames.html

Publications in Chinese / Books

Chan Li [Trembling]
Gongren Publishing House, Beijing, 1989

Meng Yi [Dream Talk]
Lijiang Publishing House, Guangxi, 1988

Web site / language of web site: Chinese & English / Xue Di

http://www.boxun.com/my-cgi/post/display_all.cgi?cat=xuedi

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