My Village: Selected Poems, 1966-2014 - Softcover

Sheng, Wu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1938890795 ISBN 13: 9781938890796

Verlag: Zephyr Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Wu Sheng has written vivid poems about rural life and the land since the 1960s, when he became one of Taiwan’s most popular poets. His poems are rooted in the soil, embued with an unshakable affinity for the people who till it, sweat over it, and eventually are buried in it, and serve as his personal response to the industrialization, urbanization and globalization of his vanishing world.

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Wu Sheng, born in 1944, is a farmer, teacher, poet, essayist and environmental activist who lives in central Taiwan. He has written more than a dozen volumes of poems and essays, and in 2007, received the Wu Sanlian Literature Award, one of Taiwan’s most prestigious honors. In 2002, he and his wife spent a year exploring and reporting on the social and environmental conditions of Taiwan’s longest river, the Zhuoshui River. He also purchased land near his farm and created a park forested with trees native to Taiwan. Wu Sheng’s work was the first to be digitized for the National Museum of Taiwan Literature’s digital archives, and many of his poems have been set to music in two published sets of cds.

John Balcom, PhD., is a translator of Chinese literature, whose previous books for Zephyr Press include Abyss, by Ya Hsien (a finalist for the PEN Poetry in Translation Award), Grass Roots, by Xiang Yang, and Driftwood and Stone Cell, both by Lo Fu. Other recent publications include Frontier Taiwan: An Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry (contributor), Wintry Night by Li Qiao (co-translator), The City Trilogy by Chang His-kuo, There’s Nothing I Can Do When I think of You Late at Night, by Cao Naiqian, and Taiwan’s Indigenous Writers: An Anthology of Stories, Essays, and Poems, the last two of which won Northern California Book Awards. He teaches at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Zephyr Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1938890795
• ISBN 13: 9781938890796
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 180
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