Changming's 1st full-length Chinese poetry collection《袁昌明詩選》( Selected Poems of Yuan Changming) has been formally release today and become readily availabe as an ebook or kindle edition:
published by vancouver-based Poetry Pacific Press, 《袁昌明詩選》( Selected Poems of Yuan Changming), which consists of 120 poems, is the author's first full-lenght poetry collection in chinese. covering a wide range of subject matters and a whole spectrum of forms and styles, including such as haiku, free sonnet, siamese stanzas,bilinguacultural poem and one-act poem, this book samples Yuan's 'best' poems written between 2005 and 2020. while most of the pieces were orginally written and published in english, some of them have appeared in 'best' poetry anthologies, and others have won or been nominated for various poetry prizes. translated into chinese by the author himself, this collection offers an important and intriguing window to see the differences between contemporary english and chinese poeticses.
