Hu Xudong was a poet, translator, essayist and teacher. He taught world literature at Peking University before his death in 2021. He published nine books of poetry, a book of translations and several collections of essays.
‘That shiny / black tooth exuding the indisputable / urgency of the bite’ Four poems by Hu Xudong, translated by Margaret Ross.
‘How reliable did the gods have to be / to make his parents meet on an island / the size of a continent?’ Two poems by Hu Xudong, translated by Margaret Ross.
