Yam Gong is a leading Hong Kong poet who has worked as a laborer since adolescence and produced many of his poems during his work breaks. An outsider poet, he explores the synthesis of everyday life and philosophical inquiry. Using shifting tonal registers, he refashions borrowed language, including English song lyrics, Cantonese wordplay, Chinese folk stories and poems, news reports, prayers, and slang. This bilingual volume is the first book-length collection of Yam Gong's poems in English, drawing from his most important work over the past forty years. Moving a Stone: Selected Poems of Yam Gong is the fourth title in Zephyr's Hong Kong Atlas series, the only series in the world to showcase Hong Kong poetry in English.

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About the Author
Born in 1949, Yam Gong (pen name of Lau Yee-ching) is a celebrated poet whose work is respected in both experimental and traditionalist circles in Hong Kong's literary community. He started working as a laborer at 13 and began to write at 22. A self-taught working-class poet, he has won the Hong Kong Youth Literature Award, the Workers' Literature Award, and the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature for his first book, And So You Look at Festival Lights along the Street (1997). He later published an extended edition of this collection called (2010). He has been a featured poet at number of international literary festivals, including the International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong, the Macau Literary Festival, and the Taipei Poetry Festival.


Book Information
ISBN 9781938890871
Author Yam Gong
Format Paperback
Page Count 120
Imprint Zephyr Press
Publisher Zephyr Press