Riding Pisces

<p><em>Riding Pisces </em>brings together a number of hard-to-find and uncollected texts from almost the full extent of Yang Lian's career - from <em>Masks and Crocodiles </em>(Sydney 1990 - although the translations here are new) from the out-of-print collection <em>Non-Person Singular </em>(London 1994) from <em>Notes of a Blissful Ghost</em> published in Hong Kong in 2002 from the <em>Sailor's Home</em> six-handed anthology (Shearsman Books 2005) and from the as-yet uncollected <em>Dark Blue Verses</em>. For those already familiar with Yang Lian's remarkable long poems such as <em>Concentric Circles</em> <em>Where the Sea Stands Still</em> and <em>Yi</em> this volume offers an invaluable opportunity to fill the gaps in their knowledge.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Yang Lian is one of the most astonishing poets I've read for years. He has a westernist modernist sensibility allied with an ancient Chinese almost shamanistic one. He can both excite and frighten you-like MacDiarmid meets Rilke with Samurai sword drawn! - W.N. Herbert <em>The Scotsman</em></p><p><br></p><p><em><span>?????</span></em></p>