The Book of Mirrors
Published on 11. November 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
100 pages
978-1-945680-47-2 (ISBN)
Description
The Book of Mirrors is a silver portal opening to the hidden garden of a fragrant universe.The Book of Mirrors by Yun Wang takes the reader on a journey of enlightenment through unexpected discoveries and heartbreaks. This adventure spans different realms: the ancient and the present, the physical and the metaphysical, poetry and science. It is an insistent search for truth, goodness, and beauty, within the scope of the infinite universe.
Reviews / Votes
"Her poems are not only beautiful, but astounding in their richness of information, news, glimpses, and inklings from more dimensions of world and mind than I can account for. Each poem is a potent nexus of imagination, memory, and piercing analysis. Yun Wang is a seer." -Li-Young Lee"In Yun Wang's The Book of Mirrors, "a silver portal opens to the hidden garden" of a fragrant universe. Myths, tales, and lyrical excavations reveal passageways that traverse inner and outer spaces humming with desire. Her collection is a generous invitation: each poem is a threshold to a world within a world." -Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, judge
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Buffalo
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
113 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-945680-47-2 (9781945680472)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Yun Wang is the author of poetry books The Book of Totality (Salmon Poetry Press, 2015) and The Book of Jade (Winner of the 15th Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, Story Line Press, 2002), and the book of poetry translations Dreaming of Fallen Blossoms: Tune Poems of Su Dong-Po (White Pine Press, 2019). Wang's poems have been published in numerous literary journals, including The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Cimarron Review, Salamander Magazine, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, and International Quarterly. Her translations of classical Chinese poetry have been published in The Kenyon Review Online, Salamander Magazine, Poetry Canada Review, Willow Springs, Kyoto Journal, Bat City Review, Xavier Review, Connotation Press, and elsewhere. Wang was born in China, and came to the U.S. for graduate school in 1985. She is an astrophysicist at California Institute of Technology, currently focusing on developing space missions to explore the Universe.
Content
I
Face on Mars 2
Superstition of a Caged Bird 3
Cleopatra's Dream 4
Regret 5
Sapphire 6
Bach's Chaconne 7
Black Roses 8
Nocturne I 10
Muse with a Brown Paper Bag 11
Liebestraum 12
Poppies 13
Sirius 14
II
The Nun and the Prince 16
Nine Springs 17
The Lovers of Teruel 18
Frida With Hummingbirds 19
Casanova: a Translation from Fellini 20
The Mirror's Edge 21
A Night in Athens 22
San Francisco Bay at Night 23
Neighbors in Bathrobes 24
Nocturne II 25
Frondescence 26
Winter Seascape 27
Minuet 28
Ever After 29
Flowers in the Mirror 30
III
Hidden 32
The Visitation 33
Shadow Test 34
Children's Game in Baghdad 35
Green Stars 36
An Ancient Ice Bridge Breaks 37
Contact 38
The Beetle from Outer Space 39
Walking on Mars 40
Saturn's Moons 41
Seascape at Santa Monica 42
Thousands of Years in a Glance 43
Migration 44
IV
Horse by the Mountain Stream 46
August Dream 47
Immortality 48
Sam's Plan 49
Sam's Questions 50
Supermoon 51
Seascape at South Padre Island 52
Gifted with Beauty 53
Snow Angel 54
Transformation 55
The Burren 56
Fuerteventura at Night 57
The Butterfly 58
Epiphany 59
Forecasts 60
Face on Mars 2
Superstition of a Caged Bird 3
Cleopatra's Dream 4
Regret 5
Sapphire 6
Bach's Chaconne 7
Black Roses 8
Nocturne I 10
Muse with a Brown Paper Bag 11
Liebestraum 12
Poppies 13
Sirius 14
II
The Nun and the Prince 16
Nine Springs 17
The Lovers of Teruel 18
Frida With Hummingbirds 19
Casanova: a Translation from Fellini 20
The Mirror's Edge 21
A Night in Athens 22
San Francisco Bay at Night 23
Neighbors in Bathrobes 24
Nocturne II 25
Frondescence 26
Winter Seascape 27
Minuet 28
Ever After 29
Flowers in the Mirror 30
III
Hidden 32
The Visitation 33
Shadow Test 34
Children's Game in Baghdad 35
Green Stars 36
An Ancient Ice Bridge Breaks 37
Contact 38
The Beetle from Outer Space 39
Walking on Mars 40
Saturn's Moons 41
Seascape at Santa Monica 42
Thousands of Years in a Glance 43
Migration 44
IV
Horse by the Mountain Stream 46
August Dream 47
Immortality 48
Sam's Plan 49
Sam's Questions 50
Supermoon 51
Seascape at South Padre Island 52
Gifted with Beauty 53
Snow Angel 54
Transformation 55
The Burren 56
Fuerteventura at Night 57
The Butterfly 58
Epiphany 59
Forecasts 60