The Boy Who Catches Wasps: Selected Poetry of Duo Duo

Duo Duo is the same generation as Bei Dao, and was likewise heavily involved in restarting the anthology of Chinese literature, Today. Duo Duo is the proverbial poets’ poet, and a major collection of his work has not previously appeared due to the complexity of his verse. This book was originally accepted by the University of California Press, but the editor who accepted the MS departed, and Eliot Weinberger helped me to extricate it from their vaults. ND had originally hoped to do a book of Duo Duo’s, but after Laughlin’s death, less enthusiasm existed for new Chinese literature in the ND line.