By Stephen Haven, Professor of English--This post originally appeared on Amherst College's blog The Common http://bit.ly/1DtMRlo
On his third trip to China, Professor Haven "eavesdropped on a conversation with the West" during a dinner with several Chinese poets:
I asked Duo Duo what Chinese poets he admired from the early years of the communist era. “No one.” From the early years of the Chinese Republic? “No one.” He said “I have a Chinese great-grandfather—classic Chinese poetry—but I have no father. The West is my father. There were no Chinese poets like Wallace Stevens in the last century.
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