Book record
Iron moon
Xiaoyu Qin
Translated from Chinese by Eleanor Goodman
Iron moon, by Xiaoyu Qin, is a Chinese poetry collection from China, translated from Chinese by Eleanor Goodman, published by White Pine in 2017. It is a Chinese collection associated with contemporary worker poetry, where moonlight is pulled into the metal world of labor. The title is both beautiful and hard, suggesting lyric radiance under factory pressure, with the human voice caught between night and machinery. 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
- 2017
- Publisher
- White Pine
- Language
- Chinese
- Country
- China
- ISBN
- 9781945680038