In a Flash of Lightning Fifty-Four Poems of Cosmic Vision

by Si, Zhao; Xuan, Yuan; Meyer, Bruce; Lilburn, Tim

• ISBN13: 9781550969412
• ISBN10: 1550969412
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-09-15
• Publisher: Exile Editions

Summary

A poet who skillfully manages lines both long and short to create narratives and lyric diction as she composes universes of elegance, raw sorrows, and the joys of human existence. “Zhao Si is a poet of the infinite. She perceives enormous questions – the structure of the universe, the way in which time expands and contracts, and the realms of quantum physics and Hawking cosmos – in the same breath as she watches a beggar outside a subway station, a woman riding a bicycle through rain, or a homeless man with skin maladies. A keen observer of what exists right before her eyes, Zhao Si is constantly reminding her reader that the macrocosm exists in the microcosm, that what is visible in the finite is also to be perceived in the infinite if we are willing to open our eyes.” —from Bruce Meyer's Introduction

Author Biography

Dr. Bruce Meyer of Canada is the author or editor of over 70 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He is also a mentor to emerging writers, and a university professor. Tim Lilburn is a Canadian poet with eleven books, and has been nominated for the Governor General's Award in Literature twice. Zhao Si is a Chinese poet, essayist, translator, poetics scholar, editor, and is the author or translator of 10 books, including selected works by Hart Crane (U.S.), Ted Hughes (UK), Vladimir Holan (Czech Republic), Yannis Ritsos (Greece), and others, while her work has been translated into 16 languages. She is a frequent guest at poetry festivals worldwide, works for Poetry Periodical – which is the top poetry magazine in China – and is the Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious poetry translation series Contemporary International Poetry.