Canyon in the Body by Lan Lan and translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

This is poetry from China.

Canyon in the Body by Lan Lan translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain is published by Zephyr Press. This is a Book originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781938890017E12.

Canyon in the Body, by Lan Lan, is a Chinese poetry collection from China, translated from Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, published by Zephyr Press in 2014. It is a Chinese collection by Lan Lan where landscape and bodily interiority seem to cut into one another. The title is already a poetics: the body is not smooth or sealed, but eroded, echoing, and spacious enough for weather to enter. 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.

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