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Swimming Ginger
By Gary Geddes
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Shortlisted, Independent Publishers Book Award, Poetry
The Qingming Shanghe Tu scroll, sometimes called “Spring Festival by the River,” was thought to have been painted by Zhang Zeduan before 1127, when the Northern Song capital of Bian-Iiang was overrun by the invading Jin. Inspired by the figures in the scroll, Geddes found stories demanding to be told, tales of the droll, exacting, sometimes turbulent life of cities.
In shimmering verse, Geddes captures the voice of the painter himself and those of the underprivileged, with their not-so-subtle forms of dissent. Cleverly illustrated to intertwine East and West in dialogue, this ingenious volume juxtaposes a reproduction of the scroll that reads from back to front (experienced as Chinese reads) with Geddes’ poems, which read from front to back.
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Gary Geddes
Gary Geddes is an acclaimed poet and writer and has written and edited over 30 books. He lives in Vancouver.
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