{"product_id":"push-open-the-window-contemporary-poetry-from-china-9781556593307","title":"Push Open the Window: Contemporary Poetry from China","description":"\u003cp\u003e\" It] was Tomas Transtr mer who said that poetry was like the notes kids pass back and forth in the classroom, while that history teacher drones away at the podium. We are going to be hearing a lot about China in the next decade, about its economy, its foreign and environmental policies. It's going to be the work of translation that will give glimpses--human glimpses--at what's going on.\"--Robert Hass, \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForty-nine of China's finest contemporary poets are represented in this luminous bilingual anthology, produced as part of the National Endowment for the Arts' International Literary Exchanges. Profoundly influenced by the Cultural Revolution, the poets' work reflects the turmoil of that time--from the blunt and sharply focused political work of Bai Hua and Yu Jian to the hermetic images and landscapes of the Misty poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Higher Duty\" by Shu Ting: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn my way home, I stop by the market at Huangjia Ferry\u003cbr\u003eTo buy a dozen eggs and half a watermelon\u003cbr\u003eMiffed that the greengrocer will not cut me a deal\u003cbr\u003eI pocket some green onions when he is not looking\u003cbr\u003eI might someday be carrying out my duties\u003cbr\u003eAs General Secretary of the United Nations\u003cbr\u003eDevoting myself completely to world peace.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEven so, I did not forget\u003cbr\u003eTo make egg-drop soup with green onions for my son.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poets were selected by Chinese editor Qingping Wang. The project was coordinated in the United States by noted translators Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/18\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556593307\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 307\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d","brand":"Qingping Wang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659689390236,"sku":"9781556593307","price":19.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ae58cc09-dcda-4c17-9c2d-e9f44cdd8287.jpg?v=1603895279","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/push-open-the-window-contemporary-poetry-from-china-9781556593307","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}