A Coach Heading Towards the Provinces

Name: A Coach Heading Towards the Provinces
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781922571199
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By Xifeng Yedu

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A Coach Heading Towards the Provinces follows the life of Xifeng Yedu, a poet born into extreme poverty who continued to write poetry throughout his life, even while managing a successful business. His work blends politics and sexuality with a mastery of the Chinese language, set against the backdrop of a post-China and post-Covid-19 world. The book explores his efforts to sustain a poetic voice within a Chinese Melbourne community.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary Chinese poetry, cultural identity, and the intersection of politics and art in a globalised post-pandemic context.

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Born in dire poverty but writing poetry all his life, even when he ran a successful business, Xifeng Yedu is one of the Chinese oral poets who doesn't belong but must write his kind of oral poetry that mixes politics with sex and transcends them, with a fine sense of the Chinese language, in a post-China and Covid-19 environ, in which he is trying to eke out a poetic existence in what is already a Chinese Melbourne.

A Coach Heading Towards the Provinces captures this unique blend of themes, expressed through Yedu's compelling narrative style. His work provides an intriguing exploration of identity, society, and culture during tumultuous times.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781922571199

Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 February 2022

Country: Australia

Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 195g

Pages: 142

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry Xifeng Yedu

About the Author

Born in the 1970s in north Shaanxi, Xifeng Yedu began writing poetry from when he was a teenager. In the 1990s, he went with the stream of reform and opening up, and became an entrepreneur in Shenzhen, running a business till 2020 while writing poetry continuously. His work has been published in many China-based journals or magazines as well as on the social media. He has so far published two collections of poetry, The Inflatable Doll (2011) and The Beauty of the Unknown (2012). He now lives in Melbourne.