Book record
Hawk of the mind
Mu Yang
Translated from Chinese by Michelle Yeh
Hawk of the mind, by Mu Yang, is a Chinese poetry collection from Taiwan, translated from Chinese by Michelle Yeh, published by Columbia University Press in 2018. It is a Taiwanese collection by Mu Yang, translated by Michelle Yeh, whose title makes thought predatory, airborne, and alert. The hawk suggests a mind that circles, dives, and sees from above, turning lyric attention into a form of controlled wildness. 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
- Columbia University Press
- Language
- Chinese
- Country
- Taiwan
- ISBN
- 9780231184694