Stitching Porcelain: Poetry (New Directions Paperbook, Band 710) - Softcover

Larsen, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811211614 ISBN 13: 9780811211611

Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

Stitching Porcelain, Deborah Larsen's first book of poetry, is a narrative-lyric sequence based on the life of Matteo Ricci, the resourceful Jesuit who entered China in 1583 and stayed for a quarter century. Pondering cultural accommodation as well as faith, many of the poems center on actual events: Ricci's dressing as a Buddhist; his awe-inspiring map (with China shrewdly centered); his prostration before an empty Dragon Throne. Other events the poet imagined. (In the title room, Ricci addresses a love lyric to China: Your porcelain is so fine, so thin, /a brass wire can repair it . . . /Once I saw you beneath the bamboo/ . . . bent back/from the world, stitching porcelain.) With a felicity rare in a debut volume, Larsen's opalescent poetry works in perfect counterpoint to the strange and brilliant Ricci

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0811211614
• ISBN 13: 9780811211611
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 61
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