y separately published work icon Songs of the Last Chinese Poet sequence   poetry  
  • Author:agent Yu Ouyang http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/ouyang-yu
Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 Songs of the Last Chinese Poet
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The author has descibed this numbered sequence of 97 untitled poems as 'a metaphysical and postmodern attempt to probe into issues of colonization and self-colonization, change of identities in a new country as a bilingual writer, death as a way of imagination and exorcization, and dark Chinese humor as a send-up of what one sees as the flashy but cheap trappings of an Australian read Western civilization, all in a heightened awareness of the approaching demise of the twentieth century'.

Notes

  • Dedication: To Whom It May Concern
  • Epigraph: Either the East Wind prevails over the West Wind or the West Wind prevails over the East Wind - Mao Zedong
  • Epigraph: I was the vanguard to destroy the West before it destroyed the world - The Chinaman by Don'o Kim
  • Epigraph:
    A fool lies here
    Who tried to hustle the West - In imitation of Rudyard Kipling

Contents

* Contents derived from the Broadway, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,:Wild Peony , 1997 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Songs of the Last Chinese Poet: Introduction, John McLaren , single work criticism (p. ix-xii)
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Related Works

Untitled i "but let this small boy say something for himself", Yu Ouyang , 1996 extract poetry (Songs of the Last Chinese Poet)
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 22 no. 2 1996; (p. 63-64)
Untitled i "A dream of another form", Yu Ouyang , 1996 extract poetry (Songs of the Last Chinese Poet)
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 15 no. 4 1996; (p. 32)
Untitled i "yes that's right", Yu Ouyang , 1996-1997 extract poetry (Songs of the Last Chinese Poet)
— Appears in: Siglo , Summer no. 7 1996-1997; (p. 55)
Untitled i "perhaps a graphic lesson in progressive / past tenses is useful:", Yu Ouyang , 1996-1997 extract poetry (Songs of the Last Chinese Poet)
— Appears in: Siglo , Summer no. 7 1996-1997; (p. 55)
Untitled i "heroes are homegrown", Yu Ouyang , 1996-1997 extract poetry (Songs of the Last Chinese Poet)
— Appears in: Siglo , Summer no. 7 1996-1997; (p. 55)
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Works about this Work

Creative Migration : ‘To Emigrate Inwardly’ Yu Ouyang , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , October 2021;

'No one, particularly an intellectual or artist, migrates just for money (1). In my case, I didn’t even entertain thoughts of migration when I left for Australia in mid-April 1991; I went there to merely pursue academic studies in the hope of getting a PhD degree.' (Introduction)
The Year the Dragon Came : Post-Tiananmen Stories Nicholas Jose , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 444-451)
[Review] Songs of the Last Chinese Poet Rodney Noonan , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Bias : Offensively Chinese/Australian : A Collection of Essays on China and Australia 2007; (p. 266-267)
— Review of Songs of the Last Chinese Poet Yu Ouyang , 1997 sequence poetry
Sleep No More : Ouyang Yu's Wake-up Call to Multicultural Australia Wenche Ommundsen , 2005 single work essay
— Appears in: Culture, Identity, Commodity : Diasporic Chinese Literature in English 2005; (p. 231-251)
Echoes of the Object of Affection Bev Braune , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 13 no. 2 1999; (p. 134)
— Review of Melbourne Elegies : Being an Adaptation and Extension of Goethe's Romische Elegien K. F. Pearson , 1999 selected work poetry ; Songs of the Last Chinese Poet Yu Ouyang , 1997 sequence poetry
The Hermit and the Ventriloquist Felicity Plunkett , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Ulitarra , June no. 13 1998; (p. 167-169)
— Review of Songs of the Last Chinese Poet Yu Ouyang , 1997 sequence poetry ; The Hermit in Translation Stefanie Bennett , 1998 selected work poetry
[Review] Songs of the Last Chinese Poet Rodney Noonan , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Bias : Offensively Chinese/Australian : A Collection of Essays on China and Australia 2007; (p. 266-267)
— Review of Songs of the Last Chinese Poet Yu Ouyang , 1997 sequence poetry
Don't Play Games, I Want to Be Woken Up Rebecca Edwards , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: LiNQ , October vol. 25 no. 2 1998; (p. 97-100)
— Review of The Impossible : And Other Poems R. A. Simpson , 1998 selected work poetry ; Songs of the Last Chinese Poet Yu Ouyang , 1997 sequence poetry ; Out of the Fast Lane Mal Morgan , 1998 selected work poetry ; Surface Tension Debbie Westbury , 1998 selected work poetry ; The Hanging of Jean Lee Jordie Albiston , 1998 single work novel
Four Books, Five Poets Pamela Brown , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 152 1998; (p. 114-116)
— Review of The Hunt and Other Poems John Kinsella , 1998 selected work poetry ; Songs of the Last Chinese Poet Yu Ouyang , 1997 sequence poetry ; Travelling Alone Together : In the Footsteps of Edward John Eyre Miriel Lenore , 1998 selected work poetry ; Ruby Camp : A Snowy River Series Louise Crisp , 1998 selected work poetry ; Ruby Camp : A Snowy River Series, and, Travelling Alone Together : In the Footsteps of Edward John Eyre Louise Crisp , Miriel Lenore , 1998 selected work poetry ; Trans-Sumatran Highway and Other Poems S. K. Kelen , 1995 selected work poetry
Poetry Shorts Lauren Williams , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 202 1998; (p. 35)
— Review of Not Quite the Man for the Job Adam Ford , 1998 selected work poetry ; The Skinscape Voyeur Neil Paech , 1998 selected work poetry ; Songs of the Last Chinese Poet Yu Ouyang , 1997 sequence poetry
Sleep No More : Ouyang Yu's Wake-up Call to Multicultural Australia Wenche Ommundsen , 2005 single work essay
— Appears in: Culture, Identity, Commodity : Diasporic Chinese Literature in English 2005; (p. 231-251)
Aozhou Xin Hua Ren Wen Xue Zhong De Si Wang Chaoying Qian , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Otherland , March no. 5 1999; (p. 96-110)
— Appears in: Otherland , no. 7 2001; (p. 225-242)
Songs of the Last Chinese Poet: Introduction John McLaren , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Songs of the Last Chinese Poet 1997; (p. ix-xii)
The Year the Dragon Came : Post-Tiananmen Stories Nicholas Jose , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 444-451)
Creative Migration : ‘To Emigrate Inwardly’ Yu Ouyang , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , October 2021;

'No one, particularly an intellectual or artist, migrates just for money (1). In my case, I didn’t even entertain thoughts of migration when I left for Australia in mid-April 1991; I went there to merely pursue academic studies in the hope of getting a PhD degree.' (Introduction)
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