四首诗

Hai Zi (1964–1989) was born and raised in a farming village in Anhui Province. When he was fifteen he passed the entrance exam to the prestigious Beijing University, and at twenty, he started teaching philosophy and art theory at China University of Political Science and Law. Between 1984 and 1989, he wrote about 200 poems and several epics. He committed suicide in March 1989 by lying on a railroad track at Beijing Shanhaiguan. His books, published posthumously in China, include Earth (1990), Works of Hai Zi and Luo Yihe (1991), Poems of Hai Zi (1995), The Complete Works of Hai Zi (1997), Hai Zi (2006), Selected Works of Hai Zi (2006), and Poetry of Hai Zi (2007).

Ye Chun is a poet and translator. Her second collection of poetry, Lantern Puzzle, received Tupelo Press's 2011 First/Second Book Award and is forthcoming in 2014. Her translation of Hai Zi's poetry, Wheat Has Ripened, is also forthcoming from Tupelo. Her other books include Travel Over Water (Bitter Oleander Press, 2005) and a novel in Chinese, Peach Tree In The Sea (People's Literature Publishing House, 2011). She currently teaches at the University of Missouri where she is a Ph.D. candidate.