Snow Room

Snow Room by Zhang Shuguang, translated by Kate Costello

“Zhang Shuguang’s poetry is a world unto its own: solid, elegant, and uncorroded by time… This collection is full of evocative and resonant lines. It is one of the highest achievements of contemporary Chinese poetry.”
—Ha Jin, National Book Award–winning author, Professor at Boston University

“Zhang Shuguang is an explorer of the interior… ‘I fervently believe that a poem is always the fruit of memory.’”
—Cheng Guangwei, Critic, Professor at Renmin University of China

“Zhang Shuguang has created a profound, introspective, slow-paced narrative tempered with grief… a model for the maturation of contemporary poetry.”
—Zhang Qinghua, Critic, Professor at Beijing Normal University