Research Catalog

Title

My name will grow wide like a tree : selected poems / Yi Lei ; translated from the Chinese by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi.

Author

Yi, Lei

Publication

• Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Smith, Tracy K.
• Changtai, Bi

Description

xiii, 133 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Yi Lei published her poem "A Single Woman's Bedroom" in 1987, when cohabitation before marriage was a punishable crime in China. She was met with major critical acclaim-and with outrage-for her frank embrace of women's erotic desire and her unabashed critique of oppressive law. Over the span of her revolutionary career, Yi Lei became one of the most influential figures in contemporary Chinese poetry. Passionate, rigorous, and inimitable, the poems in My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree celebrate the joys of the body, ponder the miracle of compassion, and proclaim an abiding reverence for the natural world. Presented in the original Chinese alongside English translations by Changtai Bi and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, this collection introduces American readers to a boundless spirit-one "composing an explosion.""--

Subject

• Chinese poetry
• Chinese poetry > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Note

• Originally published as: Yi Lei shi xuan = The Selected Poems of Yi Lei. Tianjin, China : Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House, ©2010.
• Edition statement from page 4 of cover.

Language (note)

• Poems are in both English and Chinese.

Contents

Green Trees Greet the Rainstorm -- Huangguoshu Waterfall -- Between Strangers -- Picnic -- Furtive -- Love's Dance -- A Single Woman's Bedroom -- Besieged -- Black Hair -- Red Wall -- Nightmare -- Flesh -- As Clear and Thus as Virtuous as Glass -- The Nude -- Preserved Flower -- With Whitman -- Glorious Golden Birds Are Singing -- Summer -- Flame in the Cloud at Midnight -- In the Distance -- Talking to Myself -- Nature Aria -- Heavy Rain -- Postperpetual -- Mother -- -- Song for Heaven, Earth and Humankind -- To the Viewer -- Coronation of the Roses.

Call Number

JFE 21-1543

ISBN

• 9781644450406
• 1644450402

LCCN

2019956913

OCLC

1136967376

Author

Yi, Lei, author.

Title

My name will grow wide like a tree : selected poems / Yi Lei ; translated from the Chinese by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi.

Publisher

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Edition

Bilingual edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

Poems are in both English and Chinese.

Added Author

Smith, Tracy K., translator, writer of introduction.

Changtai, Bi, translator.

Yi, Lei. Poems. Selections.

Yi, Lei. Poems. Selections. English.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-1543