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Axe-murdering poet comes to Berlin
Shirley Apthorp
bloomberg
It all went horribly wrong. In China, Gu Cheng was one of the most celebrated poets of the 1980s, a rebel reading for cheering stadium crowds.
As an emigrant in New Zealand, he lived an increasingly isolated and unstable life. In 1993, at the age of 37, he murdered his wife with an ax and then hanged himself.
Gu's strange life and brutal end are the inspiration for ``Mercury Light World,'' a new opera by Chinese composer Cong Su opening in Berlin Tuesday. Cong......
