A distant center /
A Distant Center moves award-winning fiction writer Ha Jin's astounding poetic talent into the spotlight. Originally inscribed in Chinese and rendered into English by Ha Jin, these poems operate between cultures, languages and poetic traditions. The result is a generous hybrid space in which va...
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| Language: | English |
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Port Townsend, Washington :
Copper Canyon Press,
[2018].
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| Summary: | A Distant Center moves award-winning fiction writer Ha Jin's astounding poetic talent into the spotlight. Originally inscribed in Chinese and rendered into English by Ha Jin, these poems operate between cultures, languages and poetic traditions. The result is a generous hybrid space in which vast territory is explored adventurously, exile and immigration, personal memories and current crisis. This poetry confronts China's fraught political history while recalling and embodying its timeless culture and landscape. The poet is plainspoken and insightful, addressing the turmoil of displacement with meditative wisdom, self-reflection and playfulness. Ha Jin has arrived at the height of his powers as a poet. His is a brilliant mind wrestling gracefully with the pain of an uprooted life. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 75 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781556594625 1556594623 9781556595219 1556595212 |