Roam is Zhang Guan's third poetry collection after A Secret in a Distant Place and Train, Time and Imagination.
The book describes not the experience of the body, but the inside world of the mind. The author saw a variety of objects in his room and then he was deep in thinking and introspection about life.
The book includes 11 parts. Every part includes 10 poems. Each poem is named by the item in his room.
Zhang Guan's Literary Works:
Novels:
Who Has Time Failed (2007) Simplified Chinese Edition
Love Letter (2015) Traditional Chinese Edition
Another Kind of Waste (2015) Traditional Chinese Edition
Lemon (2016) Traditional Chinese Edition
Lemon (2017) Simplified Chinese Edition
Bicycle (2017) Traditional Chinese Edition
Nowhere to Go (2018) Traditional Chinese Edition
Lemon II (2020) Traditional Chinese Edition
Short Stories and Novellas Collection:
Daydream in Utopia: a Collection of Guan Zhang's Short Stories and Novellas
(2016) Traditional Chinese Edition
Poetry Collections:
A Secret in a Distant Place (2015) Traditional Chinese Edition
A Secret in a Distant Place (2020) English Edition
Train, Time and Imagination (2020) Traditional Chinese Edition
Roam (2020) Traditional Chinese Edition
A Secret in a Distant Place (2021) Simplified Chinese Edition
Roam (2023) English Edition