Fei Ye (; born 1962) is a Chinese
poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...
who was also involved in the
Chinese democracy movement
Democracy movements of China are a series of organized political movements, inside and outside of China, addressing a variety of grievances, including objections to socialist bureaucratism and objections to the continuation of the one-party ru ...
.
Although often associated with the
Misty Poets The Misty Poets () are a group of 20th-century Chinese poets who reacted against the restrictions on art during the Cultural Revolution.
They are so named because their work has been officially denounced as "obscure", "misty", or "hazy" poetry ('' ...
,
he considers himself of a younger generation and dismisses the label.
Fei has published four underground books of poetry and translated two books of Russian poetry, including the work of
Osip Mandelstam
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam ( rus, Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам, p=ˈosʲɪp ɨˈmʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mənʲdʲɪlʲˈʂtam; – 27 December 1938) was a Russian and Soviet poet. He was one of the foremost members of the A ...
.
He lives in the United States after being exiled from China.
Biography
He was born in
Harbin,
Heilongjiang
Heilongjiang () formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is the northernmost and easternmost province ...
(Black Dragon River) in the northernmost province of
China.
Fei began editing the banned literary journal ''Lone Army''.
He was arrested in 1983 when a Communist Party loyalist had spotted him editing in a classroom in Harbin.
Fei fled China in 1987 with the help of the American Embassy. As an exile, he moved to
Berkeley, California
Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and E ...
. In 1989, he founded the organization "Chinese Writers in Exile" in Berkeley.
Fei Ye's poems ''The Curse'' and ''The Poet in America'' were written while in America.
References
External links
Fei Ye Selected Poems in ''Out of the Howling Storm''* Fei Ye's website:http://feiyex.wixsite.com/fei-ye-poet
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Living people
Writers from Harbin
1962 births
Misty poets
Poets from Heilongjiang