"A generation after the 'Misty School,' Chinese poetry has come alive again."

Robert Hass in The Believer:

Listening to their poems on that day two years ago, listening to them talk about the projects of their poetry, I was moved by their intensity and seriousness and playfulness and quick wit, and I found I couldn’t estimate what political and aesthetic valences their writing must have in China at this moment, any more than I could tell what role state censorship continued to play in what I was hearing.

But I could see that questions of this nature were part of what they found frustrating in their situation, and I began to understand why. For mirroring reasons, they must feel that both their own literary critics at home and the poets in the West are reading them for their ideological drift, which is exactly the expectation they are trying to find their way through, and around . . .