October Dedications: Selected Poetry of Mang Ke

Mang Ke is a prominent Chinese poet and painter who started the underground literary journal *Jintian* (*Today*) with Bei Dao. He has published several collections of poetry in Chinese, as well as a novel and a volume of essays. *October Dedications* contains a chronological selection of material focusing on previously untranslated work from the early 1970s to late '80s. **Frozen Land** *pallbearers drift by like a cloud the river slowly carries the sun dying the water's long surface golden yellow such stillness such vastness such sadness the meadow of wilted flowers*