The third shore by Anthology and translated by W. N. Herbert, Lian Yang

This is poetry from China.

The third shore by Anthology translated by W. N. Herbert, Lian Yang is published by Shearsman Books. This is a Book originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781848613096E12.

The third shore is an anthology translated by W. N. Herbert, Lian Yang from Chinese, gathering Chinese-language poetry from China through Chinese-British poetic exchange, third shore, and anthology as a meeting place that is neither one coast nor the other. 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 shore, exchange, crossing, and the invented geography where translation becomes relation. Anthologies can become maps, but the best ones also leave room for wandering, disagreement, and surprise. The third shore belongs in the translated poetry library because it belongs as an anthology of literary contact, conversation, and cross-language experiment. It gives a reader several doors into a tradition before asking them to choose only one.

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