Not Written Words by Xi Xi and translated by Jennifer Feeley

This is poetry from China.

Not Written Words by Xi Xi translated by Jennifer Feeley is published by Zephyr Press. This is a Book originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781938890123E12.

Not Written Words, by Xi Xi, is a Chinese poetry collection from China, translated from Chinese by Jennifer Feeley, published by Zephyr Press in 2016. It is a Chinese collection by Xi Xi, translated by Jennifer Feeley, that turns attention toward silence, omission, and the lightness of what evades record. The title suggests that language is surrounded by everything it cannot hold, and the poems ask the reader to listen at that edge. 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.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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