Abstract
When compared to Yi Sha's manifesto-like essay “I Have Something to Say,” which so clearly illustrates the radical public persona of this controversial figure, his poetry may feel somewhat subdued. Yet each of his poems signals a forceful shift from a meditation on abstract, intellectual concerns to a focus on the gritty textures of society's “lower body.” Yi Sha captures a political call to witness the full spectrum of life in modern China, but connects these lives to a fertility capable of rebirth. By way of the stories of others or his own confessional lyrics, Yi Sha creates apertures through which readers can glimpse the moral ambivalence and compromise that characterize both the “I” of modern poetry and the nation as a whole during a time of moral and existential uncertainty.
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