Zephyr press aug 2018 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The poet travels from her home in the United States to her ancestral village in Shanxi province to bury the ashes of her paternal grandparents in a ritual lasting several days. The narrative arc of the story movingly explores death and life, a multi-branched and multi-generational clan, and ancient and modern belief systems, as it moves toward a tragic climax. First Mountain is Zhang Er's third book to be published by Zephyr Press, and includes an introduction about the collaborative process between Zhang Er and Joseph Donahue to render the book into English.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Like her mentor, the late celebrated Hong Kong author PK Leung, Lok completed her PhD studies at the University of California, San Diego, which hasgiven her a leg up in terms of visibility and familiarity with the North American academic community. Without writing overtly political verse, her poems engage directly with the current turmoil in Hong Kong (and broader China) politics and society. Apart from her university work, she is the guest anchor of Radio Hong Kong's Performing Arts program. Her recent publications in Chinese include Flying Coffin, which received the 9th Biennial Award for Chinese Literature (Poetry) in 2007, and Butterfly of Forbidden Colors: The Artistic Image of Leslie Cheung, which received the Hong Kong Book Prize as well as the 2008 'Best Book of the Year' award.…