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Five Poems

HEAT Series 3 Number 3
June 2022
She said to him, When a woman informs you that she’s a little drunk / this is actually a warning that she’s liable to collapse at any moment. / And when she tells you of a lost happiness / she means that you’re responsible for giving it back to her / on a silver platter, like those knights in the stories of Caliphs / who return home with the heads of enemies on their spears.
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Four Poems

HEAT 2
1996
my understanding of a nation is not abstract/ if america did not let off Ezra Pound/ it would not tolerate me/ no! I am not satisfied with my own country/ but that does not mean that I shall love america
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Ark

HEAT 11
1999
I was writing a long and labyrinthine poem in which I opened up / and at the same time stepped into that openness, stillness, with a white voice
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Two Poems

HEAT 2
1996
Xi Chuan ('Western River') is the poetic nom-de-plume of Li Jun. Born in 1963 in Jiangsu, he grew up mainly in Beijing and published his first collection of poems in 1991.
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Only one refused

HEAT Series 3 Number 1
February 2022
Even as I uncover materials that suggest Renate’s appearance – a portrait of her sister on an East Berlin balcony in 1961, prisoner records from age sixteen till liberation, a Hollerith card that catalogues her physical features – she remains stubbornly abstract, a dream that can’t be retrieved.
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