Across Borders by Xue Di and translated by Alison Friedman

This is poetry from China.

Across Borders by Xue Di translated by Alison Friedman is published by Green Integer. This is a Book originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781557134233E12.

Across Borders, by Xue Di, is a Chinese poetry collection from China, translated from Chinese by Alison Friedman, published by Green Integer in 2014. It is a Chinese collection whose title already places the poems in motion across nation, language, memory, and exile. Xue Di’s work can be approached through that threshold feeling, where crossing is not merely geographic but emotional and linguistic. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.