Jidi Majia is one of China’s leading indigenous minority poets. In Words from the Fire he explores his Yi heritage in poems that incorporate Yi origin stories, myths, his endangered fire culture, envi
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Translated from the Chines by Frank Stewart. Preface by Barry Lopez. Speaking in the voice of the endangered Snow Leopard, poet Jidi Majia conjures a myster
This is an anthology of some major poems of the great Chinese poet, Jidi Majia, as well as texts of some of the cultural manifestos and speeches he has given upon receiving awards himself, or paying h
An indigenous poet of the Nuosu (Yi) people of mountainous southwestern China, Jidi Majia is well known and celebrated among the Chinese. But his lyrical and worldly work, though widely published and
