{"product_id":"9780983297062","title":"Wind Says","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Subtle and compelling, Bai Hua is among the best in contemporary Chinese poetry.\"—David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Fish\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eUnfathomable, the fish can't sing\u003cbr\u003eswimming from silence to silence\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eIt needs things, it needs to speak\u003cbr\u003ebut it stares blindly at a stone\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe strength of endurance is too precise\u003cbr\u003eSenility urges it to walk the road of kindness\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhat is it? Image of a people\u003cbr\u003e• r an act of soundless immersion?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe face of grievance veers toward shadow\u003cbr\u003ethe silence of death toward error\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eBorn as metaphor to clarify a fact:\u003cbr\u003ethe throat where ambiguous pain begins\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsidered the central literary figure of the post-Obscure (post-\"Misty\") poetry movement during the 1980s, \u003cb\u003eBai Hua\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Chongqing, China, in 1956. After graduating from Guangzhou Foreign Language Institute, he taught at various universities before working as an independent writer. His first collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eExpression\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), found immediate critical acclaim. A highly demanding writer, Bai Hua has a small but selective poetic output: between the mid-'80s and 2007 Bai Hua wrote fewer than one hundred poems, most of which continue to command a large audience across China. After a silence of more than a decade, he began writing again in 2007. This bilingual selection is a comprehensive overview of Bai Hua's writing career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFiona Sze-Lorrain\u003c\/b\u003e writes and translates in French, English, and Chinese. Her recent work includes \u003ci\u003eWater the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e (Marick Press, 2010). Co-director of Vif Éditions and one of the editors at Cerise Press, she is also a zheng concertist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zephyr Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47017603760368,"sku":"9780983297062","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780983297062_p0.jpg?v=1763885925","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780983297062","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}