Book record
In the Roar of the Machine
Zheng Xiaoqiong
Translated from Chinese by Eleanor Goodman
In the Roar of the Machine, by Zheng Xiaoqiong, is a Chinese poetry collection from China, translated from Chinese by Eleanor Goodman, published by New York Review of Books in 2025. It is a Chinese collection by Zheng Xiaoqiong, translated by Eleanor Goodman, that brings industrial labor and lyric witness into direct relation. The machine here is not background noise; it is atmosphere, injury, economy, rhythm, and the pressure under which the poem learns to speak. 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
- 2025
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books
- Language
- Chinese
- Country
- China
- ISBN
- 9781681379388