Wild Geese Returning (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
190
Utgivningsdatum
2017-03-14
Upplaga
Main
Förlag
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Översättare
Jody Gladding
Medarbetare
Yang, Jeffrey
Dimensioner
213 x 140 x 20 mm
Vikt
454 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9789629968007

Wild Geese Returning

Chinese Reversible Poems

av Jody Gladding, Michle Mtail
Häftad,  Engelska, 2017-03-14
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For nearly two thousand years, the condensed language of classical Chinese has offered the possibility of writing poems that may be read both forward and backward, producing entirely different creations. The genre was known as the "flight of wild geese," and the poems were often symbolically or literally sent to a distant lover, in the hope that he or she, like the migrating birds, would return. Its greatest practitioner, and the focus of this critical anthology, is Su Hui, a woman who, in the fourth century, embroidered a silk for her distant husband consisting of a grid of 840 characters. No one has ever fully explored all of its possibilities, but it is estimated that the poem-and the poems within the poem-may be read as many as twelve thousand ways. Su Hui herself said, "As it lingers aimlessly, twisting and turning, it takes on a pattern of its own. No one but my beloved can be sure of comprehending it." With examples ranging from the third to the nineteenth centuries, Michele Metail brings the scholarship of a Sinologist and the playfulness of an avant-gardist to this unique collection of perhaps the most ancient of experimental poems. It is, as she writes, "a singular adventure at the edge of meaning, of language, and of writing."
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Michele Metail is a Sinologist, photographer, avant-gardist poet, the first woman member of Oulipo, and the co-founder of Dixit, a group dedicated to sound poetry. She is the author of two dozen books of poetry and translations from the Chinese, which she often performs accompanied by music and projected images. This is her first book in English translation. She lives in Jody Gladding has published three collections of poems and over thirty translations from the French. She lives in Calais, Vermont.

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