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Xi Xi—Can We Say

The Importance of Bears

Ilaria Maria Sala

When I get out of bed I thank my bears for having kept me company while I slept. Then at the end of the day, as I go back to bed, I push them gently with my shoulder, to make space for myself and the book I hold in my hands, before I turn off the light and hug the bears again. I don’t know if you like to sleep with bears—I have managed to never have to sleep without at least one. Some of those that stay with me are less used to the uncertainties of travels, or are not so mobile, so we are reunited every time I am in a not-too-temporary home.
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Xi Xi—Can We Say

Disintegration 解體

Liu Wai Tong and Audrey Heijns

Translator’s note: Liu connects with Xi Xi’s work in various places in the poem. It starts with the title that is named after a short story by Xi Xi written from the perspective of a cancer patient: the protagonist recounts her own death experience and looks back on her life from her hospital bed. … Continue readingDisintegration 解體

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