Wild geese returning : Chinese reversible poems /

"The genre of poems that may be read both forward and backward, producing different creations was known as the "flight of wild geese." These poems were often sent so that a distant lover, like the migrating birds, would return. Its greatest practitioner, and the focus of this critical...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Métail, Michèle (Author)
Other Authors:	Gladding, Jody, 1955- (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English Chinese
Language Notes:	Translated from the French, with original Chinese.
Published:	Hong Kong : New York : The Chinese University Of Hong Kong Press ; New York Review Books, [2017]
Series:	Calligrams.
Subjects:	Chinese poetry > History and criticism. Chinese poetry. Criticism, interpretation, etc.