The Inspired Island 2: A Life That Sings

In 2011, director En Chen documented poet Yu Kuang-Chung for the first installment of The Inspired Island series on eminent writers. For the second installment, he directs his camera to poet and editor Ya Hsien, tracing the literary giant’s footsteps from his birthplace of Nanyang, Henan, to his home in Vancouver, from the mobile library of his childhood to his current basement holding six decades of books and memories. Part of the vanguard of Taiwan's modern poetry movement in the sixties, Ya Hsien influenced multiple generations of writers over a 60-year career that intertwines with the social and political changes of his time.