The Lower Body Poets are a movement of poets in China

China

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 in the early 21st century. Among them are Yin Lichuan

Yin Lichuan

Yin Lichuan is a Chinese writer, poet and filmmaker. A graduate of Peking University, Yin made her name writing novels and poetry, including A Little More Comfort and Fucker. She is known as a member of the "Lower Body Poets."...

 (尹丽川) and Shen Haobo

Shen Haobo

Shen Haobo is a Chinese poet and publisher, born in 1976 in Taixing, Jiangsu province. He graduated from the Chinese department of Beijing Normal University in 1999....

 (沈浩波). Maghiel van Crevel describes their work as "sit[ting] at the earthy end of the spectrum" of post Mao

Mao Zedong

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 poetry in China, but strongly connected to older Chinese poetry and as "hip

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 and disaffected" but still expressing "social concern".

Other Lower Body Poets are Li Hongqi (李红旗), Li Shijiang (李师江), Xuanyuanshike (轩辕轼轲), Wu Ang (巫昂), Duo Yu (朵渔), Ma Fei (马非), and Zhu Jian (朱剑).