Seven + Two : a Mountain Climber’s Journal by Luo Ying and translated by Denis Mair

This is poetry from China.

Seven + Two : a Mountain Climber’s Journal by Luo Ying translated by Denis Mair is published by White Pine Press. This is a Book originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2020.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781945680427E12.

Seven + Two : a Mountain Climber’s Journal, by Luo Ying, is a Chinese poetry collection from China, translated from Chinese by Denis Mair, published by White Pine Press in 2020. It is a Chinese collection by Luo Ying, translated by Denis Mair, that frames ascent through journal, body, risk, and numbered attention. The climbing structure gives the poems a physical pressure, as though thought itself has to breathe thinner air to continue. 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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