To Practice the Rhythms (Chinese Poetry Series) - Softcover

Cai, Shu

 
9781925780192: To Practice the Rhythms (Chinese Poetry Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1925780198 ISBN 13: 9781925780192
Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann, 2019

Synopsis

Three Years

the land, extending itself, makes
one turn after another, spitting
village after village, till it gives
its cold light to the gaping grave.

I, a blunt knife, hammered on an anvil
have been hardened—for three years
three years! Till a miracle happens—
will I be able to return from it?

Born in 1965, in Fenghua, Zhejiang, Shu Cai was originally Chen Shucai. He graduated with a BA in French literature from the Department of French Language and Literature, Beijing Foreign Languages University in 1987. From 1990 to 1994 he worked as a diplomat in the Chinese Embassy in Senegal and has since been working as a research fellow in Foreign Literature Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He won the Medal of Academic Palm Knight in France in 2008. His publications include such collections of poetry as Solitaire (China, 1997), and Short Poems by Shu Cai (Hong Kong, 2004) and his translations of French literature include A Selection of Poems by Pierre Reverdy (China, 2002), Selected Poems by Rene Char (China, 2002), and Selected Poems by Nine French Poets (Shanghai, 2009). In July 2012, Shu Cai was invited to attend the Winter Translation School by Monash University in Melbourne.

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Publisher
Puncher and Wattmann
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1925780198
ISBN 13 
9781925780192
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
205