Starve the poets! by Sha Yi and translated by Simon Patton, Tao Naikan

This is poetry from China.

Starve the poets! by Sha Yi translated by Simon Patton, Tao Naikan is published by Bloodaxe Books. This is a Book originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2008.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781852248154E12.

Starve the poets!, by Sha Yi, is a Chinese poetry collection from China, translated from Chinese by Simon Patton, Tao Naikan, published by Bloodaxe Books in 2008. It is a Chinese collection by Sha YI, translated by Simon Patton and Tao Naikan, with a title that arrives as joke, threat, and indictment. It has the sharpness of literary mischief, reminding us that poetry often survives inside cultures that claim not to have room for it. 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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