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Volume II, What the Cuckoo Said, explores Southern Song Dynasty poets. A celebrated woman poet strikes the first note. After her comes a thematic chapter, ""Blood Red the Raging River"", a poem attributed to the legendary hero Yue Fei, followed by a surprisingly sentimental patriotic poet and a couple of his easy-going contemporaries. Next comes a rebellious woman branded as fallen and neglected for centuries. The volume ends with the romantic and passionate Dragon of the era. Susan Wan Dolling brings her third volume on Song Dynasty poets, another rich tapestry of history, culture, and lyrical beauty.

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Susan Wan Dolling is a Chinese American writer who was born in Hong Kong, attended the Diocesan Girls' School, studied in Japan, and graduated from Princeton University with an AB in English and Creative Writing, and PhD in Comparative Literature. She has taught English and Literature at Fordham University and Chinese Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. Her translations of modern Chinese literature and classical Chinese poetry can be found in such publications as Poetry Magazine, Words Without Border, Two Lines, The Columbia Books of Modern Chinese Literature, and Renditions. Two excerpts of her unpublished novel, The Price of Sunshine, is on the website, The Write Launch. Her translation of Wang Wen-hsing's Modernist novel, Family Catastrophe is in University of Hawaii Press's Fiction from Modern China Series.

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