Return from the Crypt

I’m back. China blocked proxies and I couldn’t get here for the longest time. I’m now in Liverpool, involved in theatre and poverty. Three more Hellecchino adventures were written following The Mayor’s Business and I’m stumped on #14. I might be posting some essays I wrote on Chinese education, none of them complementary. But I did find myself in a major poetry anthology, first foreigner I think: 26 poems in Chinese. My translator and a publisher are working on a bilingual text of modern American poets–any interested, write me for info. A commissioned play was translated and sent to the woman; but more importantly to a local Han opera director for possible adaptation–a real coup if it works. Another commission, for a TV drama, will probably never see the light of day there; it’s in play form, so I can peddle it around in more civilized countries. So, despite the worst they could dish out, I was active. Sorry to have to leave my daughters: the only reason I put up with the abuse for so long. They are older now, near to being married. I guess I’ll get to visit now and again to steal the grandkids. Don’t need a CRB there to play with children! Next up will probably be another Hellecchino.