The Blameless Years

What remains of innocence after history, grief, and exile have done their work?The Blameless Years is a haunting collection of contemporary Chinese poetry by Wang Chengguo, bringing together 131 poems of loss, memory, family, public trauma, spiritual resistance, and the search for moral clarity in a fractured world.Moving between China and Chiang Mai, between mothers and ghosts, snow and fire, private elegy and public witness, these poems create a stark symbolic landscape where tenderness and darkness stand side by side. They mourn the dead, remember the silenced, confront the wounds of the pandemic era, and return again and again to the fragile places where love, conscience, and memory survive.For readers of modern poetry, Asian literature, translated poetry, and literary works about grief, exile, family, and spiritual survival, The Blameless Years offers a voice that is cold, intimate, unsparing, and unforgettable.This is poetry for those who know that darkness is real, but still look for the last blameless light.

Pages: 164, Paperback, Bobcat Press