Bed, Wu Ang Satire Wish Lanterns

Wish Lanterns

is a poet born and raised in Shenzhen

and above all

inspired by the Japanese tradition of tanka and haiku

and state-sanctioned death

Bed, Wu Ang Satire Wish LanternsWritten in Beijing around the turn of the millennium, Bed by Wu Ang is a collection that glides between dreamlike personas, charged observation, and casual despair. In Wu Angs wry, charismatic gaze, bored lovers turn into furniture, hospitals harbor shorts stealing crocodiles, and the poet herself becomes a female cockroach. Mordant, unapologetic, and extravagant, Wu Angs necessary voice is collected here in a bilingual edition for the first time,