
My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree
Selected Poems
Yi Lei(Author)
Graywolf Press,U.S.
Published on 3. November 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-64445-040-6 (ISBN)
Description
Yi Lei published her poem "A Single Woman's Bedroom" in 1987, when cohabitation before marriage was a punishable crime in China. She was met with major critical acclaim-and with outrage-for her frank embrace of women's erotic desire and her unabashed critique of oppressive law. Over the span of her revolutionary career, Yi Lei became one of the most influential figures in contemporary Chinese poetry.
Passionate, rigorous, and inimitable, the poems in My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree celebrate the joys of the body, ponder the miracle of compassion, and proclaim an abiding reverence for the natural world. Presented in the original Chinese alongside English translations by Changtai Bi and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, this collection introduces American readers to a boundless spirit-one "composing an explosion."
Passionate, rigorous, and inimitable, the poems in My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree celebrate the joys of the body, ponder the miracle of compassion, and proclaim an abiding reverence for the natural world. Presented in the original Chinese alongside English translations by Changtai Bi and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, this collection introduces American readers to a boundless spirit-one "composing an explosion."
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Language
English
Place of publication
MN
United States
ISBN-13
978-1-64445-040-6 (9781644450406)
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Yi Lei (1951-2018) received the Zhuang Zhongwen Literature Prize and published eight collections of poems, including A Single Woman's Bedroom, The Love Poems of Yi Lei, and Women's Age. Her work has been translated into five languages.