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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936671625Author Su DongpoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Pinyon PublishingPublisher Pinyon PublishingWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372242Author A.C. GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Before and since his enforced exile from 1989, Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and influential poets from China. Widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world literature, he has been translated into many...

Late in life, Meng Chiao (A.D. 751--814) developed an experimental poetry of virtuosic beauty, a poetry that anticipated landmark developments in the modern Western tradition by a millennium. With the T'ang Dynasty crumbling, Meng's later work employed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933439153Author Karen An LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Singing Bone PressPublisher Singing Bone PressWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

From ancient times China's remote and exotic South-a shifting and expanding region beyond the Yangtze River-has been an enduring theme in Chinese literature. For poets and scholar-officials in medieval China, the South was a barbaric frontier region of...

During China's Cultural Revolution, millions of middle school and high school graduates, called zhiqing, were sent to the countryside to receive reeducation from peasants. They dug the earth daily, with deep conviction that they would play an important...

Phoenix is a bilingual edition of a poem commissioned by Xu Bing's studio to accompany his installation Phoenix. Xu Bing spent two years creating this work, which features two monumental birds fabricated entirely from materials harvested from...

Flash Cards is a primer of modern Chinese life, constructing a complex philosophical vision from swatches of daily events and observations. As Yu Jian has written about his own work: "It is possible to see eternity-to see everything-in a teacup or a...

The May Fourth Movement launched an era of turmoil and transformation in China, as Western ideas and education encroached on the Confucian traditions at the root of Chinese society. The Republican period (1919-49) witnessed an outpouring of poetry in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789629376604Author Paul BevanFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint City University of Hong Kong PressPublisher City University of Hong Kong...

Influenced by both the "gray, sinister sea" near the village where Yi Lu grew up during the Cultural Revolution, and the beauty of the sea in the books she read as a child, Sea Summit is a collection of paradox and questioning. The sea is an impossible...

Her work has been translated into English, French, Russian, Spanish, German, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Belgian, and Romanian. Awarded the prestigious Liu Li'an Poetry Prize in 1996 In 2009, she also garnered four of the nation's most important...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999261347Author Ye LijunFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint World Poetry BooksPublisher World Poetry Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566569965Author PortalFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 168mm * 13mm

These seventy poems are masterpieces from over a thousand years of classical Chinese poetry. Beauty and simplicity meld to convey an astounding landscape with both enchanting details and breath-taking vastness. The poems constitute an anthology, given to...

Tao Yuan-ming stands first in the line of China's great lyric poets. Tao Yuan-ming, who lived around 400 A.D., stands first in the line of China's great lyric poets. Just as the Impressionists taught us to see in a new way, Tao taught the Chinese a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594892Author Red PineFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556597077Author Arthur SzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

In these self-mocking poems - populated with youths and elders, cellphones and televisions - Jiang Tao presents and dissects a discontent with the state of the world. The complex use of metaphor highlights his profound wit and poetic mastery, building...

"Wear poetry as both perfume and armor." In Turning to Wallpaper, lush, elegant language contrasts with the disturbing and at times gruesome imagery to create a collection that knows exactly how to haunt the reader. Wong's words and artistry are vibrant...

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family--the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes--all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987634023Author Chelsea HuiFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Chelsea HuiPublisher Chelsea HuiWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 7mm

Yi Lei published her poem "A Single Woman's Bedroom" in 1987, when cohabitation before marriage was a punishable crime in China. She was met with major critical acclaim-and with outrage-for her frank embrace of women's erotic desire and her unabashed...

Originally published in Chinese in 1999, Salsa has been Hsia Yu's most successful collection of poetry, selling thousands of copies in Taiwan and Hong Kong alone. Zephyr Press's 2001 edition Fusion Kitsch included a generous selection of material from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376486Author Wang YinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Yam Gong is a leading Hong Kong poet who has worked as a laborer since adolescence and produced many of his poems during his work breaks. An outsider poet, he explores the synthesis of everyday life and philosophical inquiry. Using shifting tonal...

The Chinese poetic tradition, which dates back to almost 1,000 B.C., is one of the most cherished parts of the nation's cultural heritage. This collection of translated classical poems are a stunning chronicle of Chinese life, culture and history, and...

"Bloom and change your way of living," Xi Chuan exhorts us. "Bloom / unleash a deep underground spring with your rhizome." In his wildly roving new collection, Bloom & Other Poems, Xi Chuan, like a modern-day master of the fu-rhapsody, delves into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595622Author Liu Tsung-yuanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251942Author Yau NoiFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 161g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987634047Author Chelsea HuiFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Chelsea HuiPublisher Chelsea HuiWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 7mm

Song Lin's poems explore his sojourns in several countries, the natural world outside him, and his own inner landscape. His early imprisonment during the 1989 Tienanmen Square protests gave rise to the title poem, as well as a profound sense of yearning...

Ya Shi, an "outsider" poet, who teaches math and lives 1,000 miles from the Beijing literary scene, is celebrated among lovers of Chinese poetry from the conservative to the avant-garde. This bilingual (Chinese/English) collection draws together jagged...

Su Dong-po is recognized as one of the main Chinese poets of the Sung Dynasty and this bilingual collection contains work never previously translated.Book InformationISBN 9781945680274Author Su Dong-PoFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint White Pine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922169280Author Qian TaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Quirin PressPublisher Quirin PressWeight(grams) 508g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681379388Author Zheng XiaoqiongFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683726418Author Laura HuFormat HardbackPage Count 66Imprint Dixie W Publishing CorporationPublisher Dixie W Publishing CorporationWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938890345Format PaperbackImprint Zephyr PressPublisher Zephyr Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922181442Author Yasuhiro Yotsumoto Ming Di Don Mee ChoiFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Vagabond PressPublisher Vagabond PressWeight(grams) 339g