Research Catalog

Title

• Empty chairs : selected poems / Liu Xia ; translated from the Chinese by Ming Di and Jennifer Stern ; foreword by Herta Müller and introduction by Liao Yiwu = 空椅子: 詩選 / 劉霞.
• Empty chairs : selected poems / Liu Xia ; translated from the Chinese by Ming Di and Jennifer Stern ; foreword by Herta Müller and introduction by Liao Yiwu = Kong yi zi : shi xuan / Liu Xia .

Author

Liu, Xia, 1961-

Publication

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2015]

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Liao, Yiwu, 1958-
• Ming, Di (Poet)
• Müller, Herta,
• Stern, Jennifer
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xiv, 118 pages : black and white photographs; 23 cm

Summary

"Empty Chairs is the first publication in both English translation and the Chinese original of Liu Xia, poet, artist, and wife of the imprisoned Nobel Prize recipient Liu Xiaobo. Selected from thirty years of her work, and including some of her haunting photography, this book creats a portrait of a life lived under duress, a voice in danger of being silenced, and a spirit that is shaken but so far indomitable. Liu Xia's poems are potent, acute moments of inquiry that peel back to expose the fraught complexity of an interior world. They are felt and insightful, colored through with political constraints even as they seep beyond those constraints and toward love. " ---From back cover.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections. English & Chinese.

Alternative Title

• Kong yi zi : shi xuan
• Kong yi zi: shi xuan
• Poems.

Subject

• 1989
• Bilingual books
• China
• China > History > Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 > Poetry
• Government, Resistance to
• Government, Resistance to > China
• Liu, Xiaobo, 1955-2017
• Liu, Xiaobo, 1955-2017 > Poetry
• Narrative poetry, Chinese
• Tiananmen Square Incident (China : 1989)

Genre/Form

• History
• Poetry

Note

• "A Lannan Translation Selection"--Title page verso.
• Non-Latin script record

Language (note)

• Text in Chinese and English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword : A mix of silk and iron / by Herta Müller -- Introduction : The story of a bird / by Liao Yiwu -- One bird then another -- Black sail -- Days -- Transformed creature -- Scheme -- June 2nd, 1989 -- Game -- Word -- I sit here -- Poison -- Grandfather -- A landscape -- Shadow -- One night -- Awakened -- Dark night -- Kafka -- A mother -- Twilight -- Nobody sees me -- Chaos -- Misplaced -- Empty chairs -- To Lin Zhao -- Silent strength -- Speechless -- High noon -- It's only waking up -- A grapefruit -- A soul made of paper -- Entrapped -- Murder under the moon -- Moonlit skeletons -- The end -- Rant -- Untitled -- Fragment no. 8 -- Nothing to say -- Snow -- I copy the scriptures -- How it stands -- Translators' afterword.

ISBN

• 1555977251
• 9781555977252
• 1555979149
• 9781555979140

OCLC

898419570

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library