Book record
River Merchant’s Wife
Ming Di
Translated from Chinese by Tony Barnstone, Neil Aitken, Afaa Weaver, Katie Farris, Sylvia Burn
River Merchant's Wife, by Ming Di and translated by Tony Barnstone, Neil Aitken, Afaa Weaver, Katie Farris, Sylvia Burn from Chinese, brings Chinese-language poetry from China into English through Ming Di's river-merchant echo, Chinese classical afterlife, and a woman speaker returned through contemporary collaboration. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for river, wife, echo, and the way old poems can be reopened by new hands, not as a fixed lesson about China. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. River Merchant's Wife belongs in the translated poetry library because it connects Chinese tradition, translation history, and contemporary poetic response.
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Marick Press
- Language
- Chinese
- Country
- China
- ISBN
- 9781934851432