White and Yu
A6 32pp ISBN 978-0-9807718-5-5
$9.90 including postage
White and Yu is Yu’s first PressPress chapbook.
Ouyang Yu came to Australia in early 1991 and has since published 52 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, literary translation and criticism in English and Chinese languages. He also edits Australia’s only Chinese literary journal, Otherland (since 1995). His noted books include his award-winning novel, The Eastern Slope Chronicle (2002), his collections of poetry, Songs of the Last Chinese Poet (1997) and The Kingsbury Tales (2008), his translations in Chinese, The Female Eunuch (1991) and The Man Who Loved Children (1998), and his book of criticism, Chinese in Australian Fiction: 1888-1988 (USA, 2008). He is now based in Melbourne.
He published four books in 2008, including On the Smell of an Oily Rag: speaking English, thinking Chinese and living Australian (Wakefield, 2008), a book of creative non-fiction, and The Kingsbury Tales: a novel (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2008), a book of poetry.
He has had four books published in China in 2009, including a translation in Chinese of The Masterpiece by Anna Enquist, a Dutch novelist, and three books in English translation, including Laoshe in Beijing.
In 2010, he has two English novels forthcoming, Loose: a Wild History (Wakefield Press) and The English Class (Transitlounge), which, together with his first English novel, The Easter Slope Chronicle, will form the Yellow Town Trilogy; as well, he’ll have two translations forthcoming in China, Something to Tell You, a novel by Hanif Kureishi, and Chinese Englishes: A Sociolinguistic History, a scholarly book by Kingsley Bolton, both published in 2010 by Shanghai Literature and Arts Publishing House.
Di皮lation
Take it to heights, further 嗨s
Dish the dirt
That is visually sating
An archive
Of stones
And excremental
Indulgence
Soul mouths on ANZAC day
Fetishistic flash of the sun
Light on the one
Wing of a plastic butter
Fly
Dissociation, ducks, doodles
And, you know, he’s that rich
He roams the million-dollar
Expanses of depression
Past midnight with a tortured dose
Of serotonin reuptake inhibitors
Halluci/nations
Alcohol nation
Die all, in high spirits
Born into irreality, irrationality, the genius’ block
The odd bird when it takes
Flight laughs hard
Becoming successful as it turns profit
Like an ajunkt professor
The sky now, darkening
Has sunken
To the roof
With its broken
Vertebrae
