Salsa by Hsia Yu and translated by Steve Bradbury

This is poetry from China.

Salsa by Hsia Yu translated by Steve Bradbury is published by Zephyr Press. This is a Book originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781938890055E12.

Salsa, by Hsia Yu, is a Chinese poetry collection from China, translated from Chinese by Steve Bradbury, published by Zephyr Press in 2014. It is a Chinese collection by Hsia Yü, translated by Steve Bradbury, that brings play, movement, and linguistic performance into the translated field. The title promises rhythm rather than solemnity, and the poems seem interested in how language moves when it refuses to stand still. 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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