The gleaner song: selected poems
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Main Author: Song, Lin 1958- (Author)
Other Authors: Li, Dong 1984- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Atarmon, NSW Giramondo Publishing Company [2021]
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Abstract:"Song Lin is one of China's most innovative poets. When the Tiananmen protest exploded in Beijing in June 1989, Song led student demonstrations in Shanghai and was imprisoned for almost a year. He left China soon afterwards. This selection of poems, made by the translator Dong Li and the poet himself, spans four decades of poetic exploration, with a focus on poems written during the poet's long stay in France, Singapore, Argentina, and more recently, his return to China. As a result of his wanderings, Song Lin may be thought of as an international poet, open to an unusual extent to influences - though informed by the classics and a thorough study of the Chinese language, his poetry weaves through American, French, and Latin-American traditions. His influences are the modernists, the surrealists, the romantics, the deep imagists and the objectivists--but what distinguishes Song is his ability to absorb them all, and make them his own." -- Back cover
Physical Description:75 Seiten 21 cm
ISBN:9781925818703
1925818705