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Moonlight rests on my left palm : poems and essays / Yu Xiuhua ; translated from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain.
Van Pelt Library PL2973.X58 Y8413 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yu, Xiuhua, 1976- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Yue guang luo zai zuo shou shang. English
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese poetry--21st century--Translations into English.
- Chinese poetry.
- Chinese poetry--Women authors.
- Nature--Poetry.
- Nature.
- Chinese essays.
- Chinese essays--21st century--Translations into English.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 132 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Astra House, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Yu Xiuhua was born with cerebral palsy in Hengdian village in the Hubei Province, in central China. Unable to attend college, travel, or work the land with her parents, Yu remained home where she could help with housework. Eventually she was forced into an arranged marriage that became abusive. She divorced her husband and moved back in with her parents, taking her son with her. In defiance of the stigma attached to her disability, her status as a divorced single mother, and as a peasant in rural China, Yu found her voice in poetry. Starting in the late 90's, her writing became a vehicle with which to explore and share her reflections on homesickness, family and ancestry, the reality of disability in the context of a body's urges and desires. Then, Yu's poem "Crossing Half of China to Fuck You" blew open the doors on the patriarchal and traditionalist world of contemporary Chinese poetry. She became an internet sensation, finding a devoted following among young readers who enthusiastically welcomed her fresh, bold, confessional voice into the literary canon. Thematically organized, Yu's essays and poems are in conversation with each other around subjects that include love, nostalgia, mortality, the natural world and writing itself." -- Amazon.com
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Essay: My Crazy Love Feels More Like Despair
- Ah Le, Again I Think of You, Alas
- Snow Dream
- To Lei Pingyang
- Those Secrets Suddenly Dignified
- Our Whereabouts Unknown in This Night
- I Love You
- My Body Too Contains a Train
- A Man Stops by My Room
- How Can I Make You Love Me
- Essay: My Nostalgia Differs from Yours
- Well
- An Afternoon in Hengdian Village
- Listen to a Love Song
- Leading a Dog's Life
- Irrigate the Rapeseed Fields
- Midnight Village
- Background
- Gratitude
- A Woman on the Rooftop
- Essay: The Swaying Mortal World
- I Tripped in the Afternoon
- Dust
- A Pool of Water
- Rain Falls outside the Window
- Two Voices Late at Night
- Wriggle
- But Not for Me
- Hillfolk
- Hanging Rock
- Essay: I Live to Reject Lofty Words
- All You Need Is to Be Alive
- A Leaky Boat
- Wheat in a Threshing Ground
- Marvels
- A Day Bestowed by God
- Essay: Gift
- Essay: Lesser Spear Grass
- Dusk behind the Mountain
- Short
- Gardenias in Bloom
- I'll Sing Every Spring
- Temptation
- May · Wheat
- Past a Cemetery
- On the Plain
- Longing for a Snowstorm
- Untitled
- Essay: Bright Full Moon, Towering Tree Shadows
- My Dog Is Called Little Wu
- Ancestral Worship on Tomb-Sweeping Day
- Wheat Has Ripened
- Early Winter Evening
- Marriage
- In the Cotton Fields
- Callosity
- Love
- For You
- Autumn Rain
- Essay: Dusk on My Brow.
- ISBN:
- 9781662600470
- 166260047X
- OCLC:
- 1227976663
- Publisher Number:
- 99988677902
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