| Burying the Mountain Contributor(s): Fang, Shangyang (Author) |
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ISBN: 1556596146 ISBN-13: 9781556596148 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Asian American - Poetry | Asian - Chinese - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Family |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2021025488 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.40 lbs) 112 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Shangyang Fang's debut Burying the Mountain, longing and loss rush through a portal of difficult beauty. Absence is translated into fire ants and snow, a boy's desire is transfigured into the indifference of mountains and rivers, and loneliness finds its place in the wounded openness of language. From the surface of a Song Dynasty ink-wash painting to a makeshift bedroom in Chengdu, these poems thread intimacy, eros, and grief. Evoking the music of ancient Chinese poetry, Fang alloys political erasure, exile, remembrance, and death into a single brushstroke on the silk scroll, where names are forgotten as paper boats on water. |