The new Poetry Now [Taiwan]:
WHEN THE journal Xiandai Shi, or Modernist Poetry, gave up the ghost almost a decade ago, it was like the klieg lights went out on the poetry scene here on the island of Formosa. To be sure, there were still plenty of Chinese-language journals burning a candle for local poetry. But most were rather gloomy affairs dedicated, by and large, to advancing the careers of frumpy septuagenarians, who may have been stellar poets in their day but were hardly up to the task of galvanizing younger generations of readers accustomed to a steady diet of the infinitely more alluring "virtual genres" of cable television and the World Wide Web.
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