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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Copper Canyon Press, 2021
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781619322455 (electronic bk.) MWT14626226, 1619322455 (electronic bk.) 14626226
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
In Shangyang Fang's debut Burying the Mountain, longing and loss rush through a portal of difficult beauty. Absence is translated into fire ants and snow, a boy's desire is transfigured into the indifference of mountains and rivers, and loneliness finds its place in the wounded openness of language. From the surface of a Song Dynasty ink-wash painting to a makeshift bedroom in Chengdu, these poems thread intimacy, eros, and grief. Evoking the music of ancient Chinese poetry, Fang alloys political erasure, exile, remembrance, and death into a single brushstroke on the silk scroll, where names are forgotten as paper boats on water
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