Burying the mountain : poems / by Shangyang Fang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fang, Shangyang, author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

x, 95 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2021]

Summary:

"In Shangyang Fang's debut Burying the Mountain, saturated images of longing and loss rush through a portal of difficult beauty. Exiled begonias are "lit huge like eyes," as absence is translated into fire ants and snow, and a boy's desire is transfigured into the indifference of mountains and rivers. Lapping and twisting dimensions between a Song Dynasty ink-wash painting and a makeshift bedroom in Chengdu, the poems meditate, breach, and weave the crevices of intimacy, eros, and grief. Deeply immersed in the music of ancient Chinese poetry, Fang alloys political erasure, exile, remembrance, and death into a single brushstroke on the silk scroll, where our names are forgotten as paper boats on water"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Argument of Situations

Chronicles on Disappearance

Whether a Marble Confirms Its Feeling of the Field

If You Talk about Sadness, Fugue

Foretaste of Disaster

Almost Hour

Satyr's Flute

It Is Sad to See a Horse Sleeping

Celadon

Phantom Limb

Birthday

Aria of an Ebbing Scene

II. Beethoven

Preludes, a Blue Plume

Incoherent Funeral March

Fish

Being and Time

Chaconne

Easier to Lift a Stone Than to Say Your Name

Calligraphy

Requiem

Is the Sound of Thunder

Utterance of a Folding Fan

Through the Darkness

Time the Stone Makes an Effort to Flower

III. Vermeer: Thief

A Difficult Apple

A Bulldozer's American Dream

Reliquary Evening

Meditation on an Authentic China

Red

What Sustains in This Autumn Rain

Comrade Mannequin

IV. Serenade behind a Floating Stage

In the Movie Theater

Two Cannot

Thin Air

Lie Beyond

La Traviata

Tether

Nude Descending a Staircase

Training

The Boy Is Sleeping

Op. 64 in C#

Acknowledgment: Erato

Thanks for Reading

Displaced Distance as a Red Berry.

Notes:

"Lannan literary selections."

ISBN:

9781556596148

1556596146

OCLC:

1243351428