Blending poetry and visual imagination, Xu Junguo transforms ordinary moments into luminous meditations on loneliness, beauty, memory, childhood, and the fragile hope of remaining gentle in a brutal world.
Here, bitter melons practice silent asceticism. Bees labor like monks. Banana leaves awaken in rain. Even sorrow blooms softly.
These poems carry the quiet emotional force of The Little Prince, the spiritual clarity of Zen aesthetics, and the lyrical tenderness of modern Asian literature.
This is not poetry of performance. It is poetry of listening.
Publisher: Bobcat Press
Publication date: May 18, 2026
Format: Paperback, 232 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8-9501830-4-1
Language: English