Chinese Love Poetry by Anthology and translated by Qu Lei Lei, Jane Portal

This is poetry from China.

Chinese Love Poetry by Anthology translated by Qu Lei Lei, Jane Portal is published by Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated. This is a Book originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781566569965E12.

Chinese Love Poetry is an anthology translated by Qu Lei Lei, Jane Portal from Chinese, gathering Chinese-language poetry from China through Chinese love poetry gathered as anthology, making desire appear across courtly, classical, and intimate registers. 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 love, courtship, longing, and the changing vocabulary of attachment over literary time. Anthologies can become maps, but the best ones also leave room for wandering, disagreement, and surprise. Chinese Love Poetry belongs in the translated poetry library because it offers a broad anthology doorway into Chinese lyric desire and emotional history. It gives a reader several doors into a tradition before asking them to choose only one.

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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