The below originally appeared as brochure text for a video installation of 王宝菊 Wang Baoju’s《配乐诗朗诵：荒原》 Recitation of Music Poems:The Wasteland Performance Video, 65′06″ 王宝菊 2020 shown in September 2023 at Philadelphia’s Pollinator. What can a notoriously “difficult” 100-year poem written in England by a white male American expatriate poet based in the “unreal city” of London tell us […]
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