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FIFTY-EIGHT, APRIL 1, 2001
(Copyright © 2001 Al Aronowitz)
LETTER FROM CHINA
(Photo Courtesy of Myles Aronowitz)
Dear
Al,
Very
glad to hear from you, we are indeed out of touch for a long time,
Something important to tell you, a publisher here (Suchuan People's Publishing House in Chengdu) hopes that I can write a book about my days at Harvard and in America. I can write anything freely about what I witnessed and felt (the event, the people) whatsoever---so I'll recall my visit to you and my attendance at the 1998 New York Paying Tribute to Allen Ginsberg organized by you, especially your wonderful Beat literature
Cultural
Globalization
in Chengdu, China
website.
I am to introduce you by my book to Chinese readers, so I hope to know more
about your career/life-story, for you are the friend of Allen and a living
witness of beat movement (having had close contact with many beat figures and
you are among them). Al will be one chapter in my book if I've enough
information concerned. Also I want to know something about
I'd
like to tell you my efforts to make Beats known in China is not however
fruitless with my translation of Jack's ON THE ROAD and Selected Poems of
SPAG
is the first Chinese Edition in Chinese community the world over, as a matter of
fact what the beats felt and thought and did. Interestingly, you can find their
EXPREESION in China, which is now undergoing tremendous changes ideologically
owing to its openness to the outside world---underground literature is very
active, something alike with beats' literature in ‘50's/60's of America. Among beat fans here mostly are
youngsters---artists and poets, jazz players, university students and scholars.
In
Chengdu, where I live there are numerous bars much in western-mode, poetry
I
haven't heard anything from Gerald Nicosia for a long time too. I miss him and
his Chinese-origin adopted daughter. Please say hello to him, also best regards
to Ida.
Wen
Chu-an
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