The book of jade / Yun Wang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wang, Yun, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese Americans--Poetry.

Chinese Americans.

China--Poetry.

China.

Genre:

Poetry.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

x, 99 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ashland, Or. : Story Line Press, [2002]

Summary:

Selected from more than 900 entries to the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, The Book of Jade explores family history and dynamics within China's volatile political climate. The book is an epic of a multi-dimensional personality -- poet, scientist, mother, and child; experiences and meditations are drawn from each, woven together, and hewn into a passionate view of the world. The book contains nine parts, five of which are sequence poems that contain nine poems each in a threefold structure. This form reflects Yun Wang's obsession with symmetry and hidden meanings. "The Book of Mirrors" begins with an exploration into various cosmologies through reality, myth, and science. "Loss in Spring" recollects her early childhood in China. "Beneath the Pahnted Shrine" exposes tragedies of the poet's less fortunate peers. "The Book of Scarlet" is a search for the mystery of beauty and inspiration. Subsequent parts describe her transition to life in America and present the world from several intimate angles, concluding with a celebration of the enduring love between mother and child and the boundless curiosity that redeems the human race.a

Contents:

I. The Book of Mirrors

He Would Not Bow Down His Head 3

A Metaphor For the Sage, After Qu Yuan 4

Dissecting the Orchids 5

Chang-e Drank the Potion of Immortality 6

The Missing Eye 7

The Eagle Has Landed 8

The Buddhist Master Chose His Successor 9

The Eyes of the Beggar 10

According to a Leading Cosmologist 11

II. Loss in Spring

Childhood in China 15

The Fair 16

Loss in Spring 17

Jealousy 18

The Yellow Books 19

III. The Book of Windows

Passengers 23

Space 24

The Driver 25

The Choice 26

Goddess With a Shovel 27

The Parable of Love 28

The Willow Dream 29

A Harvesting 30

Rising 31

IV. Beneath the Painted Shrine

Beneath the Painted Shrine 35

The Buffalo Man 36

Beyond Hunger 38

Elegy for the Piano 40

Image from the Back 43

V. The Book of Scarlet

Susan's Cat 47

The Perfect Hand 48

Written in Stars 49

The Orphaned Martian 50

Helen of the Hinterland 51

There Is No Escape 52

A Foreign Language 53

A Man Said 54

Not Written in the Stars 55

VI. Prisoner of Mountains

The Carp 59

Reading Mud in the Outhouse 61

Threshold 62

Crab Apple 63

Prisoner of Mountains 64

The Pain Fish 65

The Small Mermaid 66

VII. The Book of Ebony

The Earth Bleeds 69

To the Sky 70

In the Streets 71

The Full Moon 72

Through the Window 73

The Masks 74

Watching the Sea 75

Dreaming of Light 76

Passage to Light 77

VIII. Once in a Train

Once in a Train 81

April, White Blossoms 83

Without Fear 84

Attraction 85

Destination 86

IX. The Book of Tian

Prelude 89

Morning Song 90

Recognition 91

Midnight 92

Chance 93

The Boats 94

Reading People 95

Night Song 96

Imagination 97.

ISBN:

1586540238

OCLC:

49875020