Book record
First Mountain
Er Zhang
Translated from Chinese by Joseph Donahue
First Mountain, by Er Zhang, is a Chinese poetry collection from China, translated from Chinese by Joseph Donahue, published by Zephyr Press in 2018. It is a Chinese collection by Zhang Er that gives the mountain not only height, but origin, encounter, and first perception. The poems invite a reader to think of ascent as a form of attention, where difficulty is not a barrier but the shape of the path. 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.
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Zephyr Press
- Language
- Chinese
- Country
- China
- ISBN
- 9781938890932