Li Shangyin by Li Shangyin and translated by Chloe Garcia Roberts

This is poetry from China.

Li Shangyin by Li Shangyin translated by Chloe Garcia Roberts is published by New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The. This is a Book originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781681372242E12.

Li Shangyin, by Li Shangyin, is a Chinese poetry collection from China, translated from Chinese by Chloe Garcia Roberts, published by New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The in 2018. It is a Chinese selection of Li Shangyin translated by Chloe Garcia Roberts, offering English readers one of the great difficult lyric voices of classical China. These poems are best approached for their shimmer and indirection, where feeling seems to move by allusion, surface, distance, and sudden inward flash. 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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