{"product_id":"digging-by-ren-yi-9781925780819","title":"Digging","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDigging\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSquatting, my wife was digging in the field\u003cbr\u003e While I was digging, sitting on the ridge\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMy wife was digging for the sweet potatoes\u003cbr\u003e And I was digging for poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith an easy dig\u003cbr\u003e My wife dug out a sweet potato\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut I spent a long time\u003cbr\u003e Managing to dig out only a single line\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe more my wife dug the more delighted she was\u003cbr\u003e But the more I dug, the more frustrated I was\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe field where my wife had dug for the sweet potatoes\u003cbr\u003e Had furrows, long and short\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMeandering like lines of poetry\u003cbr\u003e Whereas the poems I had dug\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHad each line so knotty\u003cbr\u003e That it resembled the sweet potato, gnawed by the ground lizard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRen 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 \u003cem\u003ePujiang Literature\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424043843820,"sku":"9781925780819","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781925780819.jpg?v=1774769329","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/digging-by-ren-yi-9781925780819","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}