Yam Gong is a leading Hong Kong poet who has worked as a laborer since
adolescence and produced many of his poems during his work breaks. An
outsider poet, he explores the synthesis of everyday life and
philosophical inquiry. Using shifting tonal registers, he refashions
borrowed language, including English song lyrics, Cantonese wordplay,
Chinese folk stories and poems, news reports, prayers, and slang. This
bilingual volume is the first book-length collection of Yam Gong's poems
in English, drawing from his most important work over the past forty
years*. Moving a Stone: Selected Poems of Yam Gong* is the fourth title
in Zephyr's Hong Kong Atlas series, the only series in the world to
showcase Hong Kong poetry in English.