200 poems with introduction, timeline and glossary. Between his arrival in Cambridge in 1921 and his tragic death ten years later, Xu Zhimo transformed Chinese poetry. Love and heartbreak, landscape and dreams, famine and war, Xu says 'goodbye' to his hopes and optimism. Stuart Lyons won the 2020 Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation. 

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