Du Ya was born in 1968 in Henan Province. Before becoming an editor and writer, she worked as a nurse for ten years. She is the author of The Wind Uses Its Bright Wings (1998), Selected Poems (2008), and Sunset and Dawn Light (2016), which won the prestigious Lu Xun Prize.
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In spring of the year I turned twenty
I looked for a river
river calm and wide
that I believed to be my past incarnation.
Since childhood, I’ve seen it many times…
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