My name will grow wide like a tree : selected poems / Yi Lei ; translated from the Chinese by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yi, Lei, author.

Contributor:

Smith, Tracy K., translator, writer of introduction.

Changtai, Bi, translator.

Language:

Chinese

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 133 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Bilingual edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2020]

Language Note:

Poems are in both English and Chinese.

Summary:

"Yi Lei published her poem "A Single Woman's Bedroom" in 1987, when cohabitation before marriage was a punishable crime in China. She was met with major critical acclaim-and with outrage-for her frank embrace of women's erotic desire and her unabashed critique of oppressive law. Over the span of her revolutionary career, Yi Lei became one of the most influential figures in contemporary Chinese poetry. Passionate, rigorous, and inimitable, the poems in My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree celebrate the joys of the body, ponder the miracle of compassion, and proclaim an abiding reverence for the natural world. Presented in the original Chinese alongside English translations by Changtai Bi and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, this collection introduces American readers to a boundless spirit-one "composing an explosion.""-- |c Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Green Trees Greet the Rainstorm

Huangguoshu Waterfall

Between Strangers

Picnic

Furtive

Love's Dance

A Single Woman's Bedroom

Besieged

Black Hair

Red Wall

Nightmare

Flesh

As Clear and Thus as Virtuous as Glass

The Nude

Preserved Flower

With Whitman

Glorious Golden Birds Are Singing

Summer

Flame in the Cloud at Midnight

In the Distance

Talking to Myself

Nature Aria

Heavy Rain

Postperpetual

Mother

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Song for Heaven, Earth and Humankind

To the Viewer

Coronation of the Roses.

ISBN:

9781644450406

1644450402

OCLC:

1136967376