Zou Jingzhi (b. 1952) is an acclaimed playwright, poet and prose writer. Extremely influential as a poet in the 1980s, he continues to shape public opinion through his screenplays, which include Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (dir. Zhang Yimou) and The Grandmaster (dir. Wong Kar Wai). He is a founding member of theatre collective Longmashe, which regularly produces his plays. His opera The Night Banquet was performed in English translation at Lincoln Centre in New York in 2002.
Zou Jingzhi
the wolf of Ossory (OR: Of the prodigies of our times, and first of a wolf which conversed with a priest)
A letter from Rebecca Cartello in Scarborough, England, to her sister Carla in Longreach, Queensland, 15 December 1955
shadowgraph 73: no longer magic (poetry detected in maria goeppert-mayer’s nobel physics lecture, 1963)
How a Magical Rambler named Margaret saved me from the funeral of everything and prepared me for the Cork Spring Poetry Festival 2012