Flash Cards
Chinese and English Bilingual Version
Published on 1. January 2015
168 pages
978-962-996-937-0 (ISBN)
Description
Flash Cards is a primer of modern Chinese life-constructing a complex philosophical vision from swatches of daily events and observations. As Yu Jian has written about his own work: "e;It is possible to see eternity-to see everything-in a teacup or a candy wrapper. Everything in the world is poetry."e;The JINTIAN [aSa] series of contemporary literature features new and innovative writing from mainland China and abroad. Titles in the series are edited by Bei Dao, Lydia H. Liu, and Christopher Mattison.A collaborative venture between Zephyr Press, the Jintian Literary Foundation, and The Chinese University Press, each bilingual title highlights the everchanging literary culture of China while simultaneously expanding the English language with a wave of new voices in translation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
File size
0,97 MB
ISBN-13
978-962-996-937-0 (9789629969370)
Other editions
Additional editions
Content
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- A Note on Translating Yu Jian by Ron Padgett
- Firm, Steadfast, Staunch, Resolute: Yu Jian's Flash Cards by Simon Patton
- Half Title Page
- 1. I arrive at his living room with a poem
- 2. In the beginning is the rabbit
- 3. I see a rose
- 4. When I work
- 5. The property where the palm tree lives
- 6. With a shaved head
- 7. A tree
- 8. Morning time to brush my teeth
- 9. If I compare spring to a temple
- 10. A letter
- 11. The road that goes there
- 12. You're about to become
- 13. I write in autumn
- 14. The washing machine on Saturday
- 15. The poet is hosting a meeting
- 16. It's used for holding carp
- 17. In the Nu River forest
- 18. The lone white eucalyptus
- 19. Originally this poem was written
- 20. The salesman who sells
- 21. Autumn is coming
- 22. Outside my window
- 23. A member of the proletariat
- 24. Finishing Poem #54
- 25. The alarm clock doesn't ring
- 26. Someone discovered Xi Shuang Ban Na
- 27. According to both theory and practice
- 28. Autumn is deep
- 29. If you want to make every word
- 30. If you want to make every word
- 31. The supermarket's concrete foundation
- 32. Oh this is the merry-go-round
- 33. In the zoo where dark is falling
- 34. Night along the Nu River is strange
- 35. In the middle of the horse going
- 36. The poet walks on the road
- 37. The architect for the madhouse
- 38. Certain things are placed
- 39. There's a pleasure
- 40. Under the moon
- 41. Red lights
- 42. Another autumn
- 43. The road to death
- 44. A black leopard
- 45. Ancient lungs screech
- 46. (Poetry Recipe)
- 47. A wolf passes through the valley
- 48. A cold front is attacking the city
- 49. Along the River Dimaluo
- 50. The afternoon sun
- 51. An eighteen-year-old college girl
- 52. On the garden's eyelashes
- 53. The car zooms across the high plateau
- 54. In 1998
- 55. You're too vulgar
- 56. I always try to reach
- 57. You must confess honestly
- 58. He's walking others are walking too
- 59. Inscrutable thoughts
- 60. Peeling an apple at dusk
- 61. In springtime girls run
- 62. On the stage
- 63. The golden age is coming soon
- 64. The eggshell breaks in the afternoon
- 65. A clean sanitized square
- 66. Afternoon in a remote mountain
- 67. The injury didn't come from
- 68. The well at the old house
- 69. Poet Chen Ping is a policeman
- 70. The red land rolls on beneath the sky
- 71. The driver p0inted to a village
- 72. That day I passed by
- 73. Morning in the park
