陈先发

Chen Xianfa is a Chinese poet known primarily for his modern poetry. Public information about him is limited, and details of his life are not available in the current records. Judging from the four works held here, his writing spans a considerable period: Deep Water and Whirlpools: Selected Poems of Chen Xianfa over Forty Years reflects more than four decades of poetic accumulation, while other collections include Breaking Walls and Wandering in Spirit, the Fudan University volume of the Ivy Poetry Series: Selected Poems of Chen Xianfa, and Trumpet Flowers Blooming. His works are generally classified as modern poetry and classic works. His themes involve individual experience, spiritual questioning, and everyday scenes, and his language is concise with dense imagery, giving him a distinctive personal style within contemporary Chinese poetry. These selected and series volumes also offer readers a relatively concentrated body of texts through which to understand the features of his writing at different stages.