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.

Quotes

The Boy who Catches Wasps (2002)

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

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

• They are reduced to wrongdoers of the mind
  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
  • "Instruction" (1976), p. 29

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