Breaking The Willow Poems Of Parting Separation And Reunion by Anthology and translated by David Lunde

This is poetry from China.

Breaking The Willow Poems Of Parting Separation And Reunion by Anthology translated by David Lunde is published by White Pine Press (NY). This is a Book originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2008.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781893996953E12.

Breaking The Willow Poems Of Parting Separation And Reunion is an anthology translated by David Lunde from Chinese, gathering Chinese-language poetry from China through Chinese poems of parting and reunion gathered as an anthology of departure, return, and the human weather between. Its value comes from chorus rather than singular authorship, so I would not treat it as one poet’s private weather. The better entrance is through parting, willow, reunion, and the old ritual of saying goodbye through branches and poems. Anthologies can become maps, but the best ones also leave room for wandering, disagreement, and surprise. Breaking The Willow Poems Of Parting Separation And Reunion belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives readers an anthology of Chinese separation lyric as emotional tradition and living form. It gives a reader several doors into a tradition before asking them to choose only one.

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