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	Podcast:		Poetry Unbound
	Episode:		Yu Xiuhua — Crossing Half of China to Sleep with You
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:14:32
	Publish Date:		2022-06-03 06:00:00
	Description:		How far would you go for great love? And what distances would you cross? Yu Xiuhua was born in 1976 in Hengdian, Hubei Province, China. She is a poet from an impoverished rural background who was born with cerebral palsy. Yu began writing poetry in 1998. In 2014, her poem “Crossing Half of China to Sleep with You” became an online sensation, launching her career as a celebrity poet and writer. Her poetry collection, Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm, sold over 300,000 copies, a record for Chinese poetry titles of the past three decades. Yu received the Peasant Literature Award in 2016 and the Hubei Literary Prize in 2018. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org. We’re pleased to offer Yu Xiuhua’s poem, and invite you to sign up here for the latest from Poetry Unbound.
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