Wild Geese Returning
Chinese Reversible Poems
312 pages
978-988-237-711-0 (ISBN)
Description
The genre of poems that may be read both forward and backward, producing different creations was known as the "e;flight of wild geese."e; These poems were often sent so that a distant lover, like the migrating birds, would return. Its greatest practitioner, and the focus of this critical anthology, is Su Hui, a woman who, in the 4th Century, embroidered a silk for her distant husband using a grid of 840 characters that created perhaps 12,000 ways to read this poem. With examples from the 3rd to the 19th centuries, Michele Metail describes reversible poems as "e;a singular adventure at the edge of meaning, of language, and of writing."e;
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Language
English
File size
16,74 MB
ISBN-13
978-988-237-711-0 (9789882377110)
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Additional editions
Jody Gladding | Michele Metail
Wild Geese Returning
Book
03/2017
New York Review Books
€42.31
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