Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems (New Directions Paperbook)
Language: English
Published by New Directions, 2012
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CHUAN, XI: Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems translated by Lucas Klein New Directions 2012 PB ISBN 9780811219877 Selected poems introduces English readers to one of the most celebrated poets of contemporary China. Gary Snyder says: “Xi Chuan’s surprising poems reach into tight corners of mind an matter, impersonal but intimate, new to be heard but also oddly familiar. An impressive voice-bold and calm.” Bilingual text in both Chinese and English on opposing pages. VG+, moderate wear to spine edges, interior pages very clean, no markings, no underlining.
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- Title
- Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems (New Directions Paperbook)
- Author
- Xi, Chuan
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0811219879
- ISBN 13
- 9780811219877
- Item weight
- 367.41 grams
- Dimensions
- 2.032x15.24x22.86 cm
- Seller catalogs
- Chinese Literature, Poetry
The internationally renowned Chinese poet’s first collection to appear in English.
“In the crevices of history, mosquitoes are everywhere,” Xi Chuan writes. Notes on the Mosquito introduces English readers to one of the most revered poets of contemporary China. Gaining recognition as a post-Misty poet in the late ’80s, Xi Chuan was famous for his condensed, numinous lyricism, and for radiating classical Chinese influences as much as Western modernist traditions. After the crushing failure of Tiananmen Square and the death of two of his closest friends, he stopped writing for three years. He re-emerged transformed: he began writing meditative, expansive prose poems that dismantled the aestheticism and musicality of his previous self. Divided into two sections that hinge around this formal break, Notes on the Mosquito offers the greatest hits of a deeply engaging poet, whose work intertwines the mountains and roads of Xinjiang with insects and mythical beasts, ghosts and sacred spirits with chess and a Sanskrit inscription."Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
LUCAS KLEINis a father, writer, and translator, and an associate professor of Chinese at Arizona State University. In addition to Xi Chuan he has translated contemporary Chinese poets Mang Ke and Duo Duo as well as medieval Chinese poet Li Shangyin.
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