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  Moon Over Melbourne and Other Poems (Paperback) By (author) Ouyang Yu

  

  

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  Short Description for Moon Over Melbourne and Other PoemsPresenting Ouyang Yu's first English-language collection after his immigration from China to Australia, this title is the record of his immigrant experience, and brings his work to a wider audience.
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  • Publisher: Shearsman Books
  • Published: 25 September 2005
  • Format: Paperback 128 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry | Poetry By Individual Poets
  • ISBN 13: 9780907562856 ISBN 10: 090756285X
  • Sales rank: 1,178,632

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Full description for Moon Over Melbourne and Other Poems

• "Moon over Melbourne" was Ouyang Yu's first English-language collection after his immigration from China to Australia and is the quintessential record of the immigrant experience, a mixture of delight and rage, of wonder and frustration. First published in 1995, this expanded edition now brings his work to a wider audience: his brutally frank, disturbing narratives and lyrics speak across borders. Ouyang Yu is a controversial figure within Australian literature, sometimes characterised as 'the angry Chinese poet.' His work captures the frustrations (personal, social, professional and sexual) of the migrant experience and hits out at the indifference and hostility with which Australia has greeted recent waves of Asian immigration. His raw, uncompromising style (according to one critic, the 'deliberate unloveliness' of his language) challenges literary as well as social establishments at the same time as it engages in courageous acts of introspection and self-criticism. Ouyang typifies the new generation of post-colonial writers and intellectuals who can write with detachment about the forces of globalisation and their impact on East-West relations and at the same time acknowledge their complex and often painful impact on their own life and work.