Wind Says Contributor(s): Hua, Bai (Author), Sze-Lorrain, Fiona (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0983297061 ISBN-13: 9780983297062 Publisher: Zephyr Press OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback Language: Chinese Published: February 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Asian - General - Poetry | Asian - General |
Series: Jintian |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 7.9" (0.60 lbs) 184 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Subtle and compelling, Bai Hua is among the best in contemporary Chinese poetry.--David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Fish Unfathomable, the fish can't sing It needs things, it needs to speak The strength of endurance is too precise What is it? Image of a people The face of grievance veers toward shadow Born as metaphor to clarify a fact: Considered the central literary figure of the post-Obscure (post-Misty) poetry movement during the 1980s, Bai Hua was born in Chongqing, China, in 1956. After graduating from Guangzhou Foreign Language Institute, he taught at various universities before working as an independent writer. His first collection of poems, Expression (1988), found immediate critical acclaim. A highly demanding writer, Bai Hua has a small but selective poetic output: between the mid-'80s and 2007 Bai Hua wrote fewer than one hundred poems, most of which continue to command a large audience across China. After a silence of more than a decade, he began writing again in 2007. This bilingual selection is a comprehensive overview of Bai Hua's writing career. Fiona Sze-Lorrain writes and translates in French, English, and Chinese. Her recent work includes Water the Moon (Marick Press, 2010). Co-director of Vif ditions and one of the editors at Cerise Press, she is also a zheng concertist. |