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Wild Geese Returning

Af: Michele Metail, Jody Gladding Engelsk Paperback

Wild Geese Returning

Af: Michele Metail, Jody Gladding Engelsk Paperback
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A breathtaking introduction to Chinese multidirectional poems, told through the story of Su Hui, the greatest writer of these poems who embroidered a silk with 840 characters--equaling as many as 12,000 multidirectional poems--for her distant husband.

For nearly two thousand years, the condensed language of classical Chinese has offered the possibility of writing poems that may be read both forward and backward, producing entirely different creations. The genre was known as the “flight of wild geese,” and the poems were often symbolically or literally sent to a distant lover, in the hope that he or she, like the migrating birds, would return.
Its greatest practitioner, and the focus of this critical anthology, is Su Hui, a woman who, in the fourth century, embroidered a silk for her distant husband consisting of a grid of 840 characters. No one has ever fully explored all of its possibilities, but it is estimated that the poem—and the poems within the poem—may be read as many as twelve thousand ways. Su Hui herself said, “As it lingers aimlessly, twisting and turning, it takes on a pattern of its own. No one but my beloved can be sure of comprehending it.”

With examples ranging from the third to the nineteenth centuries, Michèle Métail brings the scholarship of a Sinologist and the playfulness of an avant-gardist to this unique collection of perhaps the most ancient of experimental poems.
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A breathtaking introduction to Chinese multidirectional poems, told through the story of Su Hui, the greatest writer of these poems who embroidered a silk with 840 characters--equaling as many as 12,000 multidirectional poems--for her distant husband.

For nearly two thousand years, the condensed language of classical Chinese has offered the possibility of writing poems that may be read both forward and backward, producing entirely different creations. The genre was known as the “flight of wild geese,” and the poems were often symbolically or literally sent to a distant lover, in the hope that he or she, like the migrating birds, would return.
Its greatest practitioner, and the focus of this critical anthology, is Su Hui, a woman who, in the fourth century, embroidered a silk for her distant husband consisting of a grid of 840 characters. No one has ever fully explored all of its possibilities, but it is estimated that the poem—and the poems within the poem—may be read as many as twelve thousand ways. Su Hui herself said, “As it lingers aimlessly, twisting and turning, it takes on a pattern of its own. No one but my beloved can be sure of comprehending it.”

With examples ranging from the third to the nineteenth centuries, Michèle Métail brings the scholarship of a Sinologist and the playfulness of an avant-gardist to this unique collection of perhaps the most ancient of experimental poems.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 190
ISBN-13: 9789629968007
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 9629968002
Kategori: Lyrik af en forfatter
Udg. Dato: 14 mar 2017
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 215mm
Højde: 143mm
Forlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc
Oplagsdato: 14 mar 2017
Forfatter(e): Michele Metail, Jody Gladding
Forfatter(e) Michele Metail, Jody Gladding

Kategori Lyrik af en forfatter

ISBN-13 9789629968007

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 190

Udgave

Længde 22mm

Bredde 215mm

Højde 143mm

Udg. Dato 14 mar 2017

Oplagsdato 14 mar 2017

Forlag The New York Review of Books, Inc

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