Fugitive Connections
by Inara Cedrins
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Inara Cedrins brings a painter's eye to her poetry. In this collection a still life blooms into narrative, narrative freezes for a moment into portrait and metaphor becomes a bowl of fruit waiting for the perfect light. As Cedrins says, "fences sprawl...
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From Root to Flower
by Paul Friedrich
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Paul Friedrich, a poet who is also a professor of anthropology, linguistics, and literature, begins this collection with Thoreau's claim that the "narrowness" of his experience confines him to talking about himself. But Friedrich's way of talking about...
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After Meng Jiao: Responses to the Tang Poet
by Christopher Kelen
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The poems in this book are not translations, rather they may be considered as variations on and responses to the poetry of Meng Jiao. Meng Jiao (751-814) was a poet of the late Tang. Unable to pass the examinations that would have given him a respectable...
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Spring Wind Brings the Fireworks
by Christopher Kelen
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Xin Qiji (1140-1207) was a Song Dynasty poet who wrote in a range of genres and is famous for the more than six hundred ci poems he composed to one hundred and one different tunes. Kit (Christopher) Kelen and Agnes Vong have worked through around a...
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by Nan Li
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"Poetry's ultimate goal," Li Nan writes, "is to keep oneself in equilibrium with good. It shines a beam of beauty, love, and kindness on people. It has a powerful spirit that transcends nation, race, and religion; it makes it possible for us to embrace...
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The Blueing Hours
by Albert Degenova
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The Blueing Hours moves from darkness to light - the reader moves from passion to doubt to the struggle to survive intact - in a brilliantly structured book which carries the reader to dawn. This isn't surprising, for here is a poet who does not want to...
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Harmony in Babel
by Paul Friedrich
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The poems and translations in Harmony in Babel entertain one paradox of life today. Paul Friedrich guides us through a Babel of words, and worlds of the imagination ranging from his translations from five languages(notably the Russian of his literary...
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Eight Days in Lhasa
by Christopher Kelen
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Eight Days in Lhasa is a new China hand's pilgrimage into some of Buddhism's holiest places. The ambivalence begins in the Shangrila of legend, or at least the town in the Tibetan corner of Yunnan which has renamed itself Xiangalila in Chinese. The...
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Broken Circle
by Kerry Shawn Keys
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One of the poems in Broken Circle, Kerry Shawn Keys entitles
Voyage. It's about a cricket, but also about dreaming a cricket,
and even a cricket's dream. The poet with his lips pressed
against the cricket's wings, weighs anchor "on a round-trip
into...
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Chinese Windmill
by Sen Li
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A member of the group of Chinese poets known as They, Li Sen is well-known in China. Chinese Windmill is a collection of thirty-three of his recent poems, presented in Chinese with facing English translations. Li's poems are profoundly influenced by...
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