Roots of Wisdom by Di Zang and translated by Eleanor Goodman

This is poetry from China.

Roots of Wisdom by Di Zang translated by Eleanor Goodman is published by Zephyr Press. This is a Book originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781938890987E12.

Roots of Wisdom, by Di Zang, is a Chinese poetry collection from China, translated from Chinese by Eleanor Goodman, published by Zephyr Press in 2017. It is a Chinese collection by Di Zang, translated by Eleanor Goodman, that suggests philosophical depth through the vegetal image of roots. The poems can be approached as acts of grounding, asking what wisdom means when it grows downward before it speaks upward. 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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