I Can Almost See the Clouds of Dust by Yu Xiang and translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

This is poetry from China.

I Can Almost See the Clouds of Dust by Yu Xiang translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain is published by Zephyr Press. This is a Book originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780983297093E12.

I Can Almost See the Clouds of Dust, by Yu Xiang, is a Chinese poetry collection from China, translated from Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, published by Zephyr Press in 2013. It is a Chinese collection by Yu Xiang, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, whose title lingers in near-sight and atmospheric memory. The almost matters here; these poems seem drawn to what appears at the edge of perception before it settles into fact. 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.

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