| Fusion Kitsch: Poems from the Chinese of Hsia Yu Contributor(s): Yü, Hsia (Author), Bradbury, Steve (Translator) |
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ISBN: 093901064X ISBN-13: 9780939010646 Publisher: Zephyr Press OUR PRICE: $11.70 Product Type: Paperback Language: Chinese Published: May 2001 Annotation: One of the most provocative and cosmopolitan poets writing in Chinese today. Hsia Y's frank and innovative treatment of gender and sexuality heralds the beginning of a much-awaited Chinese "criture fminine," As critics have noted, Hsia Y may well be the first woman poet in Taiwan to have written about love and romance in a way that breaks radically from the conventions and constraints of traditional Chinese women's poetry. At a time when scholars in both Taiwan and North America are anxious to find a candidate to fill the long-vacant post of "Chinese feminist poet," Hsia Y's feminism remains somewhat problematic, in that the poet herself has not only strongly resisted the label "feminist" but has insisted that her poetry is far more concerned with exploring the pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of the text. "L'Empire la Fin de la Decadence" "For Qiu Jin, Qing dynasty revolutionary martyr" "A waltz not without its possibilities of mutual destruction Like your revolutionLike you Dancing toward the nadir Nadir ad infinitum To the endless verge of toppling The empire at the end of its decadence But I am merely an androgyne In a gloomy salon Releasing my splendor My loud and sonorous masculinity" Born in Taiwan but now dividing her time between Paris and Taipei, Hsia Y makes a living as a song lyricist and translator. She is the author of four volumes of poetry, of which the most recent is "Salsa" (1999). She first came to prominence in the mid-1980s with the appearance of "Beiwanglu," or "Memoranda" (1983), a self-published collection of poetry whose brassy and iconoclastic tone struck a deeplysympathetic cord in Taiwan's younger readers. Besides her popularity in Taiwan, Bei Ling devoted ten pages of an issue of his journal "Tendencies" to her poems, and Michelle Yeh and Goeran Malmqvist's anthology of Taiwan poetry, forthcoming from Columbia, will contain translations of 27 of Hsia Yu's poems. Steve Bradbury translates Chinese literature and teaches American and Children's Litera |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Asian - General - History | Asia - General |
| Dewey: 895 |
| LCCN: 2001131791 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.9" W x 10" (0.70 lbs) 122 pages |
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| Publisher Description: One of the most provocative and cosmopolitan poets writing in Chinese today. Hsia Y 's frank and innovative treatment of gender and sexuality heralds the beginning of a much-awaited Chinese criture f minine. As critics have noted, Hsia Y may well be the first woman poet in Taiwan to have written about love and romance in a way that breaks radically from the conventions and constraints of traditional Chinese women's poetry. At a time when scholars in both Taiwan and North America are anxious to find a candidate to fill the long-vacant post of Chinese feminist poet, Hsia Y 's feminism remains somewhat problematic, in that the poet herself has not only strongly resisted the label feminist but has insisted that her poetry is far more concerned with exploring the pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of the text. L'Empire la Fin de la Decadence For Qiu Jin, Qing dynasty revolutionary martyr A waltz not without its possibilities of mutual destruction Like your revolution I discover I've appeared in the guise of a man Like you Dancing toward the nadir Nadir ad infinitum To the endless verge of toppling The empire at the end of its decadence But I am merely an androgyne In a gloomy salon Releasing my splendor My loud and sonorous masculinity Born in Taiwan but now dividing her time between Paris and Taipei, Hsia Y makes a living as a song lyricist and translator. She is the author of four volumes of poetry, of which the most recent is Salsa (1999). She first came to prominence in the mid-1980s with the appearance of Beiwanglu, or Memoranda (1983), a self-published collection of poetry whose brassy and iconoclastic tone struck a deeply sympathetic cord in Taiwan's younger readers. Besides her popularity in Taiwan, Bei Ling devoted ten pages of an issue of his journal Tendencies to her poems, and Michelle Yeh and Goeran Malmqvist's anthology of Taiwan poetry, forthcoming from Columbia, will contain translations of 27 of Hsia Yu's poems. Steve Bradbury translates Chinese literature and teaches American and Children's Litera |
