SELECTED
POEMS BY ZANG KEJIA
Translated by Yang Xu
Zang Kejia, a celebrated
poet and prose writer, native of Zhucheng, Shandong,
was born in 1905. In 1933, his maiden collection The
Brand was published. So far, he has published over
70 books of poems, prose-writings, novels, literary
criticisms and jottings. He is the author of The Brand,
The Evil Black Hand, The Canal, The Songs of the Earth,
The Zero Degree of Life, Selected Poems of Zang Kejia
and The Classical Poems of Zang Kejia—A Draft, etc.
After the establishment of New China, he was secretary
at the Secretariat of Chinese Writers?Association,
editor-in-chief of The Poetry Journal; he was elected
representative of NPC and a member of the standing
committee of CPPCC. He was an honorary vice president
of Chinese Writers'Association, an honorary member
of the United Committee of Literary Federation and
president of Chinese Poetry Association,etc.