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Selected poems / Ai Qing ; translated by Robert Dorsett ; foreword by Ai Weiwei.
Van Pelt Library PL2833.I2 S45 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ai, Qing, 1910-1996, author.
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ai, Qing, 1910-1996.
- Chinese poetry--20th century--Translations into English.
- Chinese poetry.
- Ai, Qing, 1910-1996--Translations into English.
- Ai, Qing.
- Genre:
- Free verse.
- Translations.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 104 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown, [2021]
- Summary:
- "A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China's most acclaimed poets-now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son, contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei. One of the most influential poets in Chinese history, Ai Qing is mostly unknown to American readers, but his work has shaped the nature of poetry in China for decades. Born between the fall of imperial Manchurian rule and the establishment of the Communist People's Republic, Ai Qing was at one time an intimate of Mao Zedong. He would eventually fall out with the leader and be sentenced to hard labor during the Cultural Revolution, when he was exiled to the remote part of the country known as "Little Siberia" with his family, including his son, Ai Weiwei. In his work, Ai Qing tells the story of a China convulsing with change, leaving behind a legacy of feudalism and imperialism but uncertain about what the future will hold. Breaking with traditional forms of Chinese poetry, Ai Qing innovatively adapted free verse, writing with a simple sincerity in clear lines that could be understood by everyday readers. Selected Poems is an extraordinary collection that traces the powerful inner life of this influential poet who crafted poems of protest, who longed for a newer, happier age, and who wrote with a profound lyricism that reaches deep into the heart of the reader"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Distant Sunlight
- Transparent Night
- Dayanhe
- -My Wet Nurse
- Visit to an Old Residence
- The Cry
- My Season
- The Lamp
- The Sun
- A Conversation with Coal
- Spring
- -
- Life
- The Resurrected Land
- Snow Falls on China's Land
- The North
- Beggars
- Dusk
- Wandering on an Autumn Day
- I Love This Land
- Winter Forest
- Autumn
- Autumn Morning
- Water Buffalo
- Wild Lands I
- Winter Marshes
- Trees
- Mountain Elm
- The Gamblers
- Crowds
- Wild Lands II
- Night 1
- Night 2
- My Father
- The Times
- The Sun's Words
- Wildfire
- The Reef
- This Clear, Radiant Morning
- Pearls
- Mountain Spring
- Morning Snowfall
- Fish Fossil
- The Mirror
- Greeting an Intoxicating Spring
- Bonsai Trees
- Sea and Tears
- The Prickly Pear
- The Wall
- Lost Years
- Tiger Cowry
- The Ruins at Jiaohe
- Dream of the Man Who Cultivated Flowers.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Chinese.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ai, Qing, 1910-1996 Selected poems
- ISBN:
- 9780593240724
- 0593240723
- OCLC:
- 1260169375
- Publisher Number:
- 99988962252
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