Stone Cell Chinese Writing Today by Anthology and translated by John Balcom

This is poetry from China.

Stone Cell Chinese Writing Today by Anthology translated by John Balcom is published by Zephyr Press (AZ). This is a Book originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2010.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780981552118E12.

Stone Cell Chinese Writing Today is an anthology translated by John Balcom from Chinese, gathering Chinese-language poetry from China through Chinese writing today gathered as anthology, stone cell imagery, and the tension between enclosure and contemporary speech. Its value comes from chorus rather than singular authorship, so I would not treat it as one poet’s private weather. The better entrance is through stone, cell, today, and the pressure of voices sounding from inside constraint. Anthologies can become maps, but the best ones also leave room for wandering, disagreement, and surprise. Stone Cell Chinese Writing Today belongs in the translated poetry library because it provides an anthology doorway into contemporary Chinese writing as living, difficult plurality. It gives a reader several doors into a tradition before asking them to choose only one.

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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