About the autor:

Jidi Majia is an Yi-Nuosu poet born in 1961 in Sichuan. He was mentored by the renowned poet Ai Qing and gained national attention when his collection Song of Love won the Third China National Poetry Prize in 1986. His work has been translated into many European languages, and he has been awarded numerous international prizes, including the Sholokhov Memorial Medal for Literature in 2006 from the Russian Writers'Association, and a Certificate for Outstanding Contributions in Poetry from the Bulgarian Writers' Association that same year.

About the book:

This book is a collection of selected poems composed by Jidi Majia, one of the most important Chinese poets with international inf luence and officially accepted as a representative poet of contemporary China. While carrying forward Chinese poetry tradition, especially Yi people's cultural tradition, the collection also absorbs the essence of literature classics worldwide. Jidi Majia imbues his poems with a moving artistic power, which is not common in the present-day poetry world.