Where the Sea Stands Still

by Yang, Lian

• ISBN13: 9781852244712
• ISBN10: 1852244712
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Summary

"His poetry could be described as an intersection of Chinese poetic traditions and Western modernisms." -World Literature Today "Yang Lian is perhaps the foremost of the new generation of Chinese poets." -Kirkus Reviews

Table of Contents

Spring, or a river's pain in your love	p. 11
Dreams, or each river's third bank	p. 13
Requiem, or river running back	p. 15
Darknesses	p. 17
Crow's proposition	p. 25
Eclipse of the moon	p. 27
House like shadow	p. 29
Ark	p. 31
Neighbours I	p. 33
Neighbours II	p. 33
Neighbours III	p. 35
Neighbours IV	p. 35
Neighbours V	p. 37
The composer's tower	p. 39
Dismal summer	p. 43
Stone on the windowsill	p. 45
Portrait afraid of the cold	p. 47
Violence in the forest	p. 49
A portrait's life	p. 51
Prison island	p. 53
Biography	p. 55
Broken foot that walks the wall	p. 63
Sea of dead lambs	p. 65
Museum windows carved with the names of different oceans	p. 67
The sky shifts	p. 69
Body of the world	p. 71
All the rooms that aren't there	p. 73
The Shore of Time 1	p. 75
The Shore of Time 2	p. 77
Purple	p. 81
Absence	p. 83
Perpendicular to the paper	p. 85
Bird book	p. 87
The shape of ghosts	p. 89
Snake tree	p. 93
Harvest	p. 97
The simplest thing	p. 99
Fiesta	p. 101
Park	p. 103
University	p. 105
Cement man	p. 107
Portrait of a medieval saint	p. 109
Opera	p. 111
Museum	p. 113
Metaphor	p. 115
Prehistory	p. 117
Space	p. 119
What ended	p. 121
The North	p. 123
The South	p. 125
Others that are not	p. 127
Looking back	p. 129
Glassblower	p. 131
Butterfly of revenge	p. 133
Brecht's last question	p. 135
Where the Sea Stands Still	p. 139
Whaur the deep sea devauls	p. 164
Translating Yang Lian	p. 173
Translator's acknowledgements	p. 189
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