Days When I Hide My Corpse in a Cardboard Box by Natalia Chan and translated by Eleanor Goodman

This is poetry from China.

Days When I Hide My Corpse in a Cardboard Box by Natalia Chan translated by Eleanor Goodman is published by Zephyr Press. This is a Book originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781938890185E12.

Days When I Hide My Corpse in a Cardboard Box, by Natalia Chan and translated by Eleanor Goodman from Chinese, brings Chinese-language poetry from China into English through Natalia Chan’s cardboard-box corpse, grotesque concealment, and contemporary Chinese lyric pushing image into shock. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for corpse, box, hiding, and the dark comic terror of making a body into an object, 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. Days When I Hide My Corpse in a Cardboard Box belongs in the translated poetry library because it contributes a startling Chinese-language voice of surreal bodily pressure and refusal.

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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