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Concentric Circles
Yang Lian
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Description for Concentric Circles
Paperback. Before and since his enforced exile, Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and influential poets in China. Widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world literature, he has been translated into many languages. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 8. Weight in Grams: 224.
Before and since his enforced exile, Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and influential poets in China. Widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world literature, he has been translated into many languages. Yang Lian has written that Concentric Circles is ‘the most important piece since I came out from China’, and that it is emphatically not a political work, but instead a work focused on ‘deep reality’ and the nature of how humans understand that reality through the medium of language. The book, like the sections of which it is comprised, ... Read more
Before and since his enforced exile, Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and influential poets in China. Widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world literature, he has been translated into many languages. Yang Lian has written that Concentric Circles is ‘the most important piece since I came out from China’, and that it is emphatically not a political work, but instead a work focused on ‘deep reality’ and the nature of how humans understand that reality through the medium of language. The book, like the sections of which it is comprised, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852247034
SKU
V9781852247034
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99-18
About Yang Lian
Yang Lian was one of the original Misty Poets who reacted against the strictures of the Cultural Revolution. Born in Switzerland, the son of a diplomat, he grew up in Beijing and began writing when he was sent to the countryside in the 1970s. On his return he joined the influential literary magazine Jintian (Today). His work was criticised in ... Read more
Reviews for Concentric Circles
Yang Lian is one of the most astonishing poets I've read for years. He has a westernist, modernist sensibility allied with an ancient Chinese, almost shamanistic one. He can both excite and frighten you – like MacDiarmid meets Rilke with Samurai sword drawn!
W.N. Herbert
The Scotsman
He continues his work bridging Chinese tradition to western modernism. ... Read more
W.N. Herbert
The Scotsman
He continues his work bridging Chinese tradition to western modernism. ... Read more