A Phone Call From Dalian Selected Poetry Of Han Dong by Han Dong and translated by Nicky Harman

This is poetry from China.

A Phone Call From Dalian Selected Poetry Of Han Dong by Han Dong translated by Nicky Harman is published by Zephyr Press (AZ). This is a Selected originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780983297017E12.

A Phone Call From Dalian Selected Poetry Of Han Dong, by Han Dong and translated by Nicky Harman from Chinese, brings Chinese-language poetry from China into English through Han Dong’s Chinese lyric selection, distant phone call, and urban intimacy stretched across geography. Because it is a selected volume, the book also has a curatorial task: to make one poet’s range feel available without pretending to exhaust it. I would read it for phone, distance, city, and the ordinary signal that becomes a poem when someone answers, not as a fixed lesson about China. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. A Phone Call From Dalian Selected Poetry Of Han Dong belongs in the translated poetry library because it offers an important contemporary Chinese voice through selection, distance, and conversational clarity.

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