Thursday, May 9, 2024

 


Two Poems, four years in 

detention: the Chinese dissident 

who smuggled his writing out of prison

My poems were written in anger after Tiananmen Square. But what motivates most prison writing is a fear of forgetting. Today I am free, but the regime has never stopped its war on words


https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/09/liao-yiwu-chinese-dissident-who-smuggled-his-writing-out-of-prison


  

No comments:

Post a Comment