梦中最清醒

Combine musings and observations on cultural differences between East and West; balancing one's love for the arts while navigating corporate travails; spelunking timeless truths on love and time, and on spirituality and eternity, this bilingual debut collection of English and Chinese poems by David Cai Jinhang aims to provide one with a unique window into the emotional landscape of a salaryman struggling to reconcile the pursuit of beauty with the sufferings of life in its many forms. By turns meditative and expressive, the poems serve to depict the antithesis between Flesh and Spirit, West and East, Logic and Emotions, Future and Past, Modern and Classical poetry, transposing the readers' introspective journey into a metaphysical experience, where time seems to congeal into fragments of eternity, and mundaneness transmogrifies into momentary transcendence.