Stone Cell

–While stationed in southern Taiwan in 1954, Lo Fu co-founded the Epoch Poetry Society with Zhang Mo and Ya Xian and served as editor of the association’s Epoch Poetry Quarterly for more than a decade. –Lo Fu has been a controversial figure in many literary debates that shaped the evolution of modern Chinese poetry. His poetry has been immensely influential in Taiwan and China. –He is the author of thirteen volumes of poetry; an equal, if not larger, number of personal anthologies and reprints published in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China; five collections of essays; five volumes of literary criticism; and four book-length translations.