The Moon in the Andes

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SKU: ISBN9789811857898  

Li Xiaofeng — documentary filmmaker, curator, and poet — treads the blurred line between cinema and verse. His writing wields a scalpel’s precision, slicing through the veneer of mundane life to expose its raw, hidden wounds: a frog pulsing on the sleepless second hand of a clock, a gout-stricken face stiffened into a paper fan, a moonlit water tower where a boy tilts his gaze skyward... Each poem unfolds as a cinematic montage, stitching fragments of clamor and silence into a tapestry of survival. The collection’s 129 poems span darkly comic generational clashes (One Year Old: My War with Father) to the icy satire of Russia-Ukraine War, where absurdity crumbles into ash. He declares fireflies “the true Situationists,” sputtering tiny rebellions of light in the dark; he sketches an “eraser personality,” vanishing foes and lovers alike until even the self dissolves into air. These lines are prismatic shards — sharp, refractive — piercing illusion to lay bare existence’s twin cores: the poetic and the absurd.  

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