One of the foremost practitioners of contemporary Chinese poetry in Taiwan, Chen Li has translated, with his wife Chang Fen-ling, the works of many poets—such as Plath, Heaney, Neruda, Paz, Tranströmer, Szymborska, Yosano Akiko—into Chinese. He subtly combines in his poetry the elements of Western modernism and post-modernism with the merits of Oriental poetics and the Chinese language, seeking incessantly to find a balance between art and life, suffering and joy, dream and reality. In 2012, he was invited to the Olympic poetry festival (Poetry Parnassus) in London as the poet representing Taiwan.

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Chen Li (born in 1954) is one of the foremost practitioners of contemporary Chinese poetry in Taiwan. He started writing poetry in the early 1970s and has published thirteen collections. In a writing career spanning more than forty years, his poetic style has undergone several transformations. Originality, variety, wittiness, and profundity have always been his signal traits; fluent command of imagery and innovative technical experimentation are characteristic of his works.