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Where the Sea Stands Still: New Poems
Yang Lian
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Description for Where the Sea Stands Still: New Poems
Paperback. Translator(s): Holton, Brian. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
Unlike his contemporaries from the heady days of the Beijing Spring in the late 1970s – most of whom have either retreated into a very private poetry or stopped writing altogether – Yang Lian has gone on to forge a mature and complex poetry whose themes are the search for a Yeatsian mature wisdom, the accommodation of modernity within the ancient and book-haunted Chinese tradition, and a rapprochement between the literatures of East and West. His poems can be disturbing and strange, haunted as they are by the eerie ordinariness of life and death. But in the end it is ... Read more
Unlike his contemporaries from the heady days of the Beijing Spring in the late 1970s – most of whom have either retreated into a very private poetry or stopped writing altogether – Yang Lian has gone on to forge a mature and complex poetry whose themes are the search for a Yeatsian mature wisdom, the accommodation of modernity within the ancient and book-haunted Chinese tradition, and a rapprochement between the literatures of East and West. His poems can be disturbing and strange, haunted as they are by the eerie ordinariness of life and death. But in the end it is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852244712
SKU
V9781852244712
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Ref
99-3
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 Where the Sea Stands Still: New Poems
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