Where the Sea Stands Still

by Lian Yang and Yang Lian

Book Overview

Unlike his contemporaries from the heady days of the Beijing Spring in the late 1970s - most of whom have either retreated into a very private poetry or stopped writing altogether - Yang Lian has gone on to forge a mature and complex poetry whose themes are the search for a Yeatsian mature wisdom, the accommodation of modernity within the ancient and book-haunted Chinese tradition, and a rapprochement between the literatures of East and West. His...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852244712
• ISBN13: 9781852244712
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"