Solitude standing

• Source: Global Times
• [23:33 March 24 2010]
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I wish I could live in foreign countries in the future. I am boundless, without limits.

Yi Lei

Poet

Fast facts: Yi Lei

1951 Born in Tianjin

1969 Works in Hebei Province countryside

1971 Works at a munitions factory in Shanxi Province

1982 Works for the Langfang Federation of Literary and Art Circles

1984 Studies at the Lu Xun Literature Institute and Peking University

1987 Publishes A Single Woman's Bedroom on People's Literature

A Single Woman's Bedroom is banned Publishes poetry collection Fire of Love, Way of Love

1988 Publishes poetry collection A Single Woman's Bedroom

1990 Goes to court to defend her poem from critics Publishes poetry collection Love Poems of Yi Lei, Women's Age, Rebellious Hand

Marries Zhang Shishan

1992 Goes to live in Russia

1994 Divorces Zhang Shishan

1997 Returns to China

2002 Opens the Katyusha Art Museum in Tianjin

2008 Moves to Beijing 798 Art Zone

2009 Publishes comprehensive anthology Selected Poems of Yi Lei