Passing Memories: A Collection of Chinese Poems on Cold Food Festival. This item is unavailable.Passing Memories: A Collection of Chinese Poems on Cold Food Festival

Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Classics. Translated from the Chinese and edited by John Digby and Hong Ai Bai. This book is a bilingual (Chinese-English) collection of classical Chinese poems on Cold Food Festival, dating from 206 BCE.

John Digby is an English-born poet and collagist specializing in archival black-and-white pure paper collage in a great variety of styles from figurative to abstract. He is the author of six books of poetry and co-author of a seminal book on archival collage materials and methods, The Collage Handbook (Thames and Hudson, 1985). More recently he founded The Feral Press, an imprint of Prehensile Pencil Publications, publishing limited editions of poetry and prose illustrated in black and white. For the past few years, he has been collaborating with Hong Ai Bai on an extensive project devoted to English improvisations of Classical Chinese poetry.



Hong Ai Bai, Ph.D of Linguistics, teaches English Writing courses in the English Department of Long Island University Post Campus, New York, USA. She published a book, Deviation in Advertising Language: a Functional Analysis (2009), three English textbooks, and 10 academic articles. As part of her interest in Chinese classical poetry, she and the English poet John Digby published seven booklets, including Du Fu's poem "Watching Gong-sun's Student Dancing Jian Qi," (2010), Bai Juyi's poems "Simple-Simple," "Losing a Slave Girl" (2011) and poems and commentaries on Chinese Cold Food Festival, horses, etc. She has given readings on Chinese poetry in various places, such as Walt Whitman's Birthplace Museum, Hutton House Lectures of LIU Post, and the Long Beach Public Library. She is also acting as Director of Asian Student Academic Support in Long Island University.