Weeds by Lu Xun and translated by Matt Turner

This is poetry from China.

Weeds by Lu Xun translated by Matt Turner is published by Seaweed Salad Editions. This is a Book originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780578490052E12.

Weeds, by Lu Xun, is a Chinese poetry collection from China, translated from Chinese by Matt Turner, published by Seaweed Salad Editions in 2019. It is a Chinese collection by Lu Xun, translated by Matt Turner, that brings one of modern China’s foundational literary figures into a stark prose-poetic register. Weeds are the right emblem here: stubborn, unwanted, alive in damaged ground, and difficult to eradicate from literary memory. 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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