Heart Into Soil

Poetry. Xue Di is a native of Beijing. After taking part in the 1989 demonstrations in Tian’anmen Square, he left China and, since 1990, has been a fellow in Brown University’s Freedom to Write program. He has published two books of poems in Chinese, contributed to many magazines, and is also known as anthologist and critic. His collected poems and essays (3 volumes) are forthcoming in China.