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Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Translated from the Chinese by Ye Chun, Paul B. Roth, and Gillian Parrish. "Longtime factory-worker and Buddhist practitioner, Yang Jian is considered by Chinese poets and public alike to be one of China's most influential contemporary poets. This sustained recognition reflects his work's power in communicating the loss and confusion felt by many Chinese living through a time of breakneck change. With haunting, plain-spoken lines and resonant images, Yang Jian's poems skillfully combine simplicity and fullness--an aesthetic formed by a Taoist-Confucian commitment to balance as well as his Buddhist practices of awareness. This contemplative stance shapes a clear-eyed poetry with the depth of vision needed to articulate the personal suffering implicit in ideas of progress driving immense cultural and ecological devastations."--from the introduction by Gillian ParrishProduct Details
Price
$18.00
Publisher
Tinfish Press
Publish Date
December 21, 2018
Pages
118
Dimensions
7.0 X 0.3 X 7.0 inches | 0.4 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780998743882
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About the Author
Lauded as one of the most important contemporary Chinese poets, Yang Jian was born in Anhui province in 1967. He paints in ink and leads a Buddhist life in Ma'anshan.
YE CHUN is a bilingual Chinese American writer and literary translator. Her debut story collection, Hao, was longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. She is also the author of two books of poetry, Travel Over Water and Lantern Puzzle; a novel in Chinese, Peach Tree in the Sea; and four volumes of translations. A recipient of an NEA Literature Fellowship, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, and three Pushcart Prizes, she teaches at Providence College and lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Paul B. Roth lives in upstate New York with the sculptor Georgina Heksch Roth. A graduate of Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont from which he also earned his Masters Degree in Contemporary French Poetry, he has been the editor and publisher of The Bitter Oleander Press since 1976, publishing contemporary poetry and fiction in translation, along with essays and interviews of substance about poetry and the creative act in both full length books and as a Spring and Autumn issued magazine.
Gillian Parrish spent some early years in the UK, some later ones in China and South Asia, and now lives in the brick city of St. Louis, where she studied at Washington University and teaches as an assistant professor at Lindenwood University. Her first book of poems, OF RAIN AND NETTLES WOVE was published by Singing Horse Press in 2018. Her work has appeared in anthologies They Said: An Anthology of Collaborative Writing, Counter- Desecration: A Glossary for Writing in the Anthropocene, and FAR VILLAGES: WELCOME ESSAYS FOR NEW & BEGINNER POETS (Black Lawrence Press, 2020). A chapbook, cold spell, is forthcoming from the DUSIE Kollektiv. She is also author of SUPERMOON (Singing Horse Press, 2020) and translated LONG RIVER (Tinfish Press, 2018).
