Kites
Poems
Published on 31. March 2025
112 pages
979-8-3852-4457-7 (ISBN)
Description
Kites is Jonathan Chaves's second book of original poems. These are written both in free forms (but always with rhythm and general comprehensibility) and neo-formal sonnets, ballads, etc. The theme running through the collection is a search for truth, culminating in a series of four sonnets inspired by explicitly Christian subjects: Christmas, Easter, etc.
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Jonathan Chaves is professor of Chinese at The George Washington University. He is internationally recognized as a leading scholar and translator of classical Chinese poetry. His books have won the ALTA (American Literary Translators Association) Lucien Stryk award for best Asian translation of the year (2014) and been nominated for the National Book Award (1979), among other honors.
