Where the Sea Stands Still by Yang Lian (Paperback Book)

Name: Where the Sea Stands Still by Yang Lian (Paperback Book)
Brand: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Unlike his contemporaries from the heady days of the Beijing Spring in the late 1970s \u2013 most of whom have either retreated into a very private poetry or stopped writing altogether \u2013 Yang Lian has gone on to forge a mature and complex poetry whose themes are the search for a Yeatsian mature wisdom, the accommodation of modernity within the ancient and book-haunted Chinese tradition, and a rapprochement between the literatures of East and West. His poems can be disturbing and strange, haunted as they are by the eerie ordinariness of life and death. But in the end it is a triumphant poetry, wholly engaged with the struggle to be alert to life, wholly engaged in the daily renewal, the search for that \u2018shore / where we see ourselves set sail\u2019. All the poems are presented in English and Chinese.\n\nWhere the Sea Stands Still\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that ;