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Unreal city : a Chinese poet in Auckland / Yang Lian ; translated by Hilary Chung and Jacob Edmond with Brian Holton ; edited and introduced by Jacob Edmond and Hilary Chung.

Title
Unreal city : a Chinese poet in Auckland / Yang Lian ; translated by Hilary Chung and Jacob Edmond with Brian Holton ; edited and introduced by Jacob Edmond and Hilary Chung.
Author
Yang, Lian, 1955-
Publication
Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Edmond, Jacob
  • Chung, Hilary
  • Holton, Brian
Description
98 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
" A selection of poems from this period as well as a number of essays, appearing in English for the first time, which meditate upon the experience of living in Auckland" --Back cover.
Uniform Title
Works. Selections. English. 2006
Alternative Title
Works. 2006
Subject
  • Yang, Lian, 1955- > Translations into English
  • New Zealand poetry > 20th century
  • New Zealand essays > 20th century
Genre/Form
  • New Zealand poetry – 20th century.
  • New Zealand essays – 20th century.
  • Translations
  • Translations.
Note
  • " A selection of poems from this period as well as a number of essays, appearing in English for the first time, which meditate upon the experience of living in Auckland" --Back cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-98).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Old story. Old story 1. Old story 2. Old story 3. Old story 4. Old story 5 -- City in a mirage. Winter garden. Grafton Bridge. City of dead poets. The garden this afternoon. The incident. The hospital. Death trap. Mountain valley. The street I look out on from my window. Travelling with the stars -- The sky that moves. Broken feet that walk the wall. Sea of dead lambs. Museum windows carved with the names of different oceans. The sky moves. The shore of time 1. The shore of time 2 -- Memories. 1989. 12 Storkwinkel, Berlin. Brian Holton travelling in New Zealand. Sense of sight, or, island no.5 -- Ghost talk : Auckland prose. Why there has to be prose : a preface to Ghost Talk. The book of crying and forgetting. Ghost talk. Eclipse. City of one person -- Notes -- Books and electronic media in English.
ISBN
  • 1869403541 (pbk.)
  • 9781869403546 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 69666880
  • SCSB-12910869
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library