Ouyang Yu: Moon Over Melbourne & other poems
Published September 2005
Paperback, 128pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £9.95. Not for
sale in the USA.
ISBN 9780907562856
Moon over Melbourne is a revised edition of the author's first English-language collection, published in Australia in 1995.
"Ouyang Yu is a controversial figure within Australian literature, sometimes characterised as 'the angry Chinese poet.' His work captures the frustrations (personal, social, professional and sexual) of the migrant experience and hits out at the indifference and hostility with which Australia has greeted recent waves of Asian immigration. His raw, uncompromising style (according to one critic, the 'deliberate unloveliness' of his language) challenges literary as well as social establishments at the same time as it engages in courageous acts of introspection and self-criticism. Ouyang typifies the new generation of post-colonial writers and intellectuals who can write with detachment about the forces of globalisation and their impact on East-West relations and at the same time acknowledge their complex and often painful impact on their own life and work." (Wenche Omundsen)
"Ouyang's poetic voice is more direct, more aggressive, more complex in its ambivalence and more confident in its acute sense of exile than anything I've read before by an Australian poet. No Australian who reads his work will remain untroubled by it." (Alex Miller)
". . . his springy, bouncy, and wonderfully moonstruck poems could have been written while he was trying out a new trampoline. I don't know how many somersaults he can do, but it's clear that in the best of his poems he transforms the world he writes about and helps us to see it anew." (Gary Catalano)
"Despite (or is it because of) writing in another language, discovering Ouyang Yu's poetry is like unearthing a diamond from the pile of ordinary manuscripts to cross my desk." (John Irving)
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