Guide to capturing a plum blossom by Boren Song and translated by Red Pine

This is poetry from China.

Guide to capturing a plum blossom by Boren Song translated by Red Pine is published by Copper Canyon Press. This is a Book originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781556593789E12.

Guide to capturing a plum blossom, by Boren Song, is a Chinese poetry collection from China, translated from Chinese by Red Pine, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2011. It is a Chinese collection by Song Boren, translated by Red Pine, that turns a flower into a discipline of looking. The title makes attention feel almost impossible and therefore beautiful, because a blossom can be named, drawn, translated, and still not quite possessed. 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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