Sunday sparrows : selected poetry of Song Lin / translated from Chinese by Jami Proctor Xu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Song, Lin, 1958- author.

Contributor:

Xu, Jami Proctor, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese poetry.

Chinese poetry--Translations into English.

Genre:

Poetry.

Translations.

Physical Description:

153 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Brookline, Mass : Zephyr Press ; Hong Kong : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, [2019]

Language Note:

Text in Chinese and English.

Summary:

Song Lin's poems explore his sojourns in several countries, the natural world outside him, and his own inner landscape. His early imprisonment during the 1989 Tienanmen Square protests gave rise to the title poem, as well as a profound sense of yearning that pervades much of his work. He is a wanderer in the world and in the language of poetry, often finding beauty in others that are also on the move: birds, rivers, the wind. While his work is rooted in both contemporary and classical Chinese poetry, he incorporates American, French, and Latin-American literary traditions into his poems.

ISBN:

9781938890253

1938890256

OCLC:

1030899738