Guo Lusheng

Guo Lusheng
Native name
郭路生
BornGuo Lusheng
1948 (age 75–76)
Chaocheng, Shandong, China
Pen nameShi Zhi
食指, index finger
Occupationpoet
Period1967-
SpouseLi Yalan
(1975-1982)

Guo Lusheng (Chinese: 郭路生, born 1948 Shandong), pen name Shi Zhi (食指, index finger), was an influential Chinese poet of the 1960s, considered the "founder of the New Poetry movement".[1][2]

His poems were the first to break with the Mao Zedong-style classicist poetry, expressing the "bewilderment of the Red Guard generation". Young readers spread his poems widely in hand-copied form, and he was one of the mascots of the sent-down youth generation - educated youth who were sent to the countryside during the cultural revolution. This underground poetry movement continued over the next 30 years, and he inspired several modern movements including the Misty poets.[3]

  1. ^ Bei Dao: Stanford Presidential Lecture
  2. ^ "Project MUSE - Login" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  3. ^ "Asia Literary Review - Asian writers". Archived from the original on 2011-08-22. Retrieved 2011-06-10.

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