"Subtle and compelling, Bai Hua is among the best in contemporary Chinese poetry."--David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University "Fish" Unfathomable, the fish can't sing It needs things, it needs to speak The strength of endurance is too precise What is it? Image of a people
swimming from silence to silence
but it stares blindly at a stone
Senility urges it to walk the road of kindness
or...