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Mid-century poets in this language were cultivated by the Blue Star Poetry Society. The contemporary “lower body poets” write in this language, also used by the Neustadt Prize-winning poet of the collection Words as Grain whose pen name consists of the same name twice. The journal Today published lexically (10[1])“obscure” poems in this language by members of the anti-formalist Misty Poets. English-language books about poetry in this language include Sunflower Splendor and Eliot Weinberger’s book titled for “19 ways” (10[1])of looking at an 8th-century author. A “written vernacular” form of this language began to be used by poets in the May Fourth Movement. (10[2])For 10 points, name this language whose contemporary poets may reference classical forms like shī (“shurr”) and cí ■END■ (10[1])

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