肖开愚,1960年生于四川省中江县,早年学医,在家乡做过医生,80年代中期开始其诗歌写作。1992年肖开愚迁居上海,在上海生活的五六年间,他创作了大量具有强烈现实批判性的作品,开始逐步奠定其作为90年代重要诗人的地位。这些作品主要结集在《动物园的狂喜》(改革出版社,1997)和《学习之甜》(中国工人出版 Xiao Kaiyu, born in 1960 in Zhongjiang County, Sichuan Province, studied medicine in his early years and worked as a doctor in his hometown and began his poetry writing in the mid-1980s. In 1992, when Xiao Kaiyu moved to Shanghai and lived in Shanghai for five or six years, he created a large number of critically acclaimed works with strong realities and began to gradually establish his position as an important poet in the 1990s. These works are mainly collected in “Zoo Ecstasy” (Reform Press, 1997) and “Sweet Learning” (Chinese workers publishing