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DIGGING IBD

PUNCHER & WATTMANN
08 / 2020
9781925780819
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Sinopsis

DiggingSquatting, my wife was digging in the fieldWhile I was digging, sitting on the ridgeMy wife was digging for the sweet potatoesAnd I was digging for poetryWith an easy digMy wife dug out a sweet potatoBut I spent a long timeManaging to dig out only a single lineThe more my wife dug the more delighted she wasBut the more I dug, the more frustrated I wasThe field where my wife had dug for the sweet potatoesHad furrows, long and shortMeandering like lines of poetryWhereas the poems I had dugHad each line so knottyThat it resembled the sweet potato, gnawed by the ground lizardRen Yi (Ren Zhilin), born in the 1950s, is from Shanghai. He is now deputy secretary-general of the Pujiang Literature Society, deputy general manager of Pujiang Literature Exchange Centre for Literature and Arts, Minhang, Shanghai, and an editor of Pujiang Literature.