Jade mirror by Anthology and translated by Emily Goedde, Jeanne Larsen, Geoffrey Waters, Grace Fong

This is poetry from China.

Jade mirror by Anthology translated by Emily Goedde, Jeanne Larsen, Geoffrey Waters, Grace Fong is published by White Pine Press. This is a Book originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781935210498E12.

Jade mirror is an anthology translated by Emily Goedde, Jeanne Larsen, Geoffrey Waters, Grace Fong from Chinese, gathering Chinese-language poetry from China through Chinese women’s poetry gathered as anthology, jade reflection, and the mirror as a cultural and gendered instrument. Its value comes from chorus rather than singular authorship, so I would not treat it as one poet’s private weather. The better entrance is through jade, mirror, women, and the polished surface where self, history, and beauty become difficult. Anthologies can become maps, but the best ones also leave room for wandering, disagreement, and surprise. Jade mirror belongs in the translated poetry library because it belongs as an anthology foregrounding women’s voices inside Chinese poetic tradition. It gives a reader several doors into a tradition before asking them to choose only one.

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