The Light : - Li ChengEn
,,,108,,,,, The Light is a carefully-chosen collection of short poems in English by Li Chengen, an outstanding contemporary young poet and writer in China. The collection starts with the Angels View of Home and ends with the Chronicle of Huang Rong, and contains a total of 108poemsaboutthe poets childhood, family and hometown, as well as life-altering mountains, rivers, grasslands and cityscape. The themes of life, love and nature shine with touching light and color, rising to illuminate the night for the passers-by. Li Chengens powerful poetry embeds her life experience into the humanistic spirit of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism accumulated over thousands of years in China, creating a poetic aria with a very modern meaning. The Light epitomizes the poetic aesthetics of contemporary Chinese poetry over the past forty years.