Moving a stone : selected poems by Yam Gong /
Yam Gong is a leading Hong Kong poet who has worked as a laborer since adolescence and produced many of his poems during his work breaks. An outsider poet, he explores the synthesis of everyday life and philosophical inquiry. Using shifting tonal registers, he refashions borrowed language, including...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Chinese |
| Language Notes: | Parallel Chinese text and English translation. |
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[Brookline, Massachusetts] :
Zephyr Press,
[2022].
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| Edition: | Bilingual edition. |
| Series: | Hong Kong atlas ;
4 |
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| Summary: | Yam Gong is a leading Hong Kong poet who has worked as a laborer since adolescence and produced many of his poems during his work breaks. An outsider poet, he explores the synthesis of everyday life and philosophical inquiry. Using shifting tonal registers, he refashions borrowed language, including English song lyrics, Cantonese wordplay, Chinese folk stories and poems, news reports, prayers and slang. This bilingual volume is the first book-length collection of Yam Gong's poems in English, drawing from his most important work over the past forty years. Moving a Stone: Selected Poems of Yam Gong is the fourth title in Zephyr's Hong Kong Atlas series, the only series in the world to showcase Hong Kong poetry in English. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 191 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781938890871 1938890876 |