The ruins : poems
A collection of beautifully resonant metaphysical poems from a singular voice in contemporary Chinese poetry. Here’s a witch poet walking backward into the future. There’s an architect dispelling illusions and inviting us into communal living. The poems collected in The Ruins rise from a primordial...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Text in parallel original Mandarin Chinese and translated English. |
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Dallas :
Deep Vellum Publishing,
[2025].
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| Edition: | First English edition. |
| Summary: | A collection of beautifully resonant metaphysical poems from a singular voice in contemporary Chinese poetry. Here’s a witch poet walking backward into the future. There’s an architect dispelling illusions and inviting us into communal living. The poems collected in The Ruins rise from a primordial wisdom that resists the quarrels of the marketplace, that keeps company under a leaky authoritarian roof and rubs off its burn, that carves out its own impossible freedom. In Dong Li’s luminous translation of Ye’s first full-length collection, each poem braids myth and mystery, inviting the reader into a liminal space where “echoes of the ancient, the imagined and the ‘now’ sound off each other” on the page. |
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| Physical Description: | 132 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781646054053 1646054059 |