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Canyon in the Body Lan Lan

Canyon in the Body By Lan Lan

Canyon in the Body by Lan Lan


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Voted by a panel of seventy major critics and poets as one of the best contemporary Chinese writers

Canyon in the Body Summary

Canyon in the Body by Lan Lan

Her work has been translated into English, French, Russian, Spanish, German, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Belgian, and Romanian. Awarded the prestigious Liu Li'an Poetry Prize in 1996 In 2009, she also garnered four of the nation's most important literary awards: the Poetry & People Award (considered the most influential Chinese popular international award), the Yulong Poetry Prize, the Best Ten Poets in China Award, and the Bing Xin Children's Literature New Work Award. Featured writer at the upcoming International Poetry Nights [http://www.ipnhk.com/] in Hong Kong (November 2013) One of the likely participants (with translator Sze-Lorrain) for a new round of Luce Foundation Fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center [http://www.vermontstudiocenter.org/news/]

About Lan Lan

Lan Lan: Lan Lan is the nom de plume of Hu Lanlan, born in 1967 in Yantai, Shandong Province. Publishing since the age of fourteen, she is considered an influential lyrical poet in contemporary China and is the bestselling author of nine poetry titles. Fiona Sze-Lorrain: Fiona Sze-Lorrain writes and translates in French, English, and Chinese. Her recent work includes Water the Moon (Marick Press, 2010). Co-director of Vif e'ditions and one of the editors at Cerise Press, she is also a zheng concertist.

Table of Contents

Introduction I Speak to Rivers and Silence - Lyricism in Lan Lan's Poetry 7 Short Lines 17 1. Indeed Verite 21 Please Discuss Happiness With Me 23 Inside Eternity... 25 Blue Pill 27 Poets Are Useless 29 Reading History 31 My Pen 33 Stunned 35 Insomnia 37 What Is More Is Silence 39 Train, Train 41 Unfinished Voyage 43 2. a weight and a balance scale Reason in Everything 49 You Are 51 Man of Few Possessions 53 I Am Other Things 55 Lizard 57 An Ear of Grain 59 Will There Be a Tree 61 Reality 63 Now, Untouchable 65 A Few Grains of Sand 69 Change 73 Standard Law 75 3. Canyon in the Body Siesta 79 Only... 81 Dusk 83 Nothingness 85 Mother 87 Autumn Begins 89 Lost 91 Wind 93 Concerning Scenery 95 Firefly 97 Ruins of the Great River Village 99 A Shuddering Gust of Wind 101 In My Village 103 In a Small Shop 105 Et cetera... 107 Travel 109 Wild Sunflowers 111 Singer 113 4. Love Letter from Fallen Leaves Chestnut Tree in the Wind 117 Persimmon Tree 119 A Glance 121 Discussing Life 123 Danger 125 Blind Person 127 Startle 129 You Are Not Here... 131 Nails 133 Your Forest 139 Hawthorn Tree 141 Parasitic Bacterium 143 Lily 145 Rose 147 Four Kinds of Desert Plants 149 Disappear 151 Newlywed 153 Again the Green Sea Lake 155 5. Password in This Night Dream, Dream... 159 Little 161 To Pessoa 163 In Maestro's Living Room 165 Untitled (I don't love coat, I love body) 167 Now 169 Secret Lover 171 Little Prelude 173 Untitled (without us will this moon night still exist) 175 A Different Mountain 177 Shadow 179 One Thing 181 A Poet's Work 183 About the Author 185

Additional information

GOR013650705
9781938890017
1938890019
Canyon in the Body by Lan Lan
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Zephyr Press
20140417
184
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