Synopses & Reviews
Yang Lian stands with Bei Dao and others as one of the major living Chinese exiled poets. Indeed, he and Bei Dao both belonged to the group of poets described as the "Misty" poets in China. Lian's work has been nominated previously for the Nobel Prize. This new work is an important work of poetry in which the poet attempts to explore, through the ancient concept of YI, both the new and the profoundness of the old in Chinese perceptions. For Yang Lian this work represents a book of poetry "that constitutes Chinese cultural tradition reborn in the person of the contemporary poet."
Yang Lian's other works include Where the Sea Stands Still, Non-Person Singular, and Masks and Crocodile.
Synopsis
A major new bilingual book of poetry by the noted Chinese dissident poet, Yang Lian.
Synopsis
Poetry. Asian-American Studies. Cultural Writing. Yang Lian stands with Bei Dao as one of the major living Chinese exiled poets. In this important new work Yang takes the Book of Changes as his inner structure, which he rearranges and pulls apart to emphasize the significance of this ancient classic Chinese system for symbolizing nature. Believing that several centuries of interpretations have divorced it from its original intent, Yang Lian attempts in this work to represent man as the perceiver rather than the subject of nature. Translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee, the noted translator of Soul Mountain by Nobel prize-winning author Gao Xingjian. A bilingual edition.