Duo Duo

Duo Duo or Duoduo (Chinese: 多多, 1951 – ) is the pen name of contemporary Chinese poet Li Shizheng (Chinese: 栗世征), a prominent exponent of the Chinese Misty Poets.

The Boy who Catches Wasps (2002)

 * The Boy Who Catches Wasps, trans. Gregory Lee (Zephyr Press, 2002), ISBN 978-0939010707

The moon is like an invalid's pallid face Like a mistaken shifted time And death, like a doctor standing before the bed
 * On a night full of symbols
 * "Night" (1973), p. 9

Merely because: They misused parables. (...) They are people who have missed life, stuck in a place where life is misunderstood Everything they have gone through —— is a mere tragedy of birth
 * They are reduced to wrongdoers of the mind
 * "Instruction" (1976), p. 29

Those whom all your life you ought not to see
 * Looking out from death you will always see
 * "Looking Out from Death" (1983), p. 51