Ebook217 pages1 hour
Sea Summit: Poems
By Yi Lu and Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
3/5
()
About this ebook
Translated to English, this collection of contemporary Chinese poetry examines humanity’s relationship with nature and the ecological crisis.
Influenced by both the “gray, sinister sea” near the village where Yi Lu grew up during the Cultural Revolution, and the beauty of the sea in the books she read as a child, Sea Summit is a collection of paradox and questioning. The sea is an impossible force to the poet: it is both a majestic presence that predates man, and something to carry with us wherever we go, to be put “by an ancient rattan chair,” so we can watch “its waves toss” from above. Exploring the current ecological crisis and our complicated relationship to the wildness around us, Yi Lu finds something more complex than a traditional nature poet might in the mysterious connection between herself and the forces of nature represented by the boundless ocean.
Translated brilliantly by the acclaimed poet Fiona Sze-Lorrain, this collection of poems introduces an important contemporary Chinese poet to English-language readers.
Praise for Sea Summit
“Yi Lu is a theatre scenographer, and her poems brim with the imagistic tendencies we might expect from a visual artist. More specifically, her poetic style fits that of a theatrical set designer. Within the poetry of Sea Summit, the images are like set pieces. They play supporting roles as they help to tell the speaker’s stories. . . . Sensitive and poignant poetry.” —The Literary Review
“A compilation of over twenty years of work. . . . Yi’s poetry shows the world as staggeringly simultaneous, from a crowded conference room in the middle of the city to the titular wave rising under the incredible volume of the ocean. . . . This collection is a great introduction to Yi Lu, already one of the most widely read poets in China.” —The Los Angeles Review
“With this selection of more than 80 of her ecologically conscious lyric poems, Yi receives a generous introduction to English readers. The pastoral is Yi’s mode of choice, and the poems here take as their subject matter the natural world as well as the human experience of it. . . . Sze-Lorrain’s steadfast translations, presented en-face, make accessible one of China’s most famous woman poets.” —Publishers Weekly
Influenced by both the “gray, sinister sea” near the village where Yi Lu grew up during the Cultural Revolution, and the beauty of the sea in the books she read as a child, Sea Summit is a collection of paradox and questioning. The sea is an impossible force to the poet: it is both a majestic presence that predates man, and something to carry with us wherever we go, to be put “by an ancient rattan chair,” so we can watch “its waves toss” from above. Exploring the current ecological crisis and our complicated relationship to the wildness around us, Yi Lu finds something more complex than a traditional nature poet might in the mysterious connection between herself and the forces of nature represented by the boundless ocean.
Translated brilliantly by the acclaimed poet Fiona Sze-Lorrain, this collection of poems introduces an important contemporary Chinese poet to English-language readers.
Praise for Sea Summit
“Yi Lu is a theatre scenographer, and her poems brim with the imagistic tendencies we might expect from a visual artist. More specifically, her poetic style fits that of a theatrical set designer. Within the poetry of Sea Summit, the images are like set pieces. They play supporting roles as they help to tell the speaker’s stories. . . . Sensitive and poignant poetry.” —The Literary Review
“A compilation of over twenty years of work. . . . Yi’s poetry shows the world as staggeringly simultaneous, from a crowded conference room in the middle of the city to the titular wave rising under the incredible volume of the ocean. . . . This collection is a great introduction to Yi Lu, already one of the most widely read poets in China.” —The Los Angeles Review
“With this selection of more than 80 of her ecologically conscious lyric poems, Yi receives a generous introduction to English readers. The pastoral is Yi’s mode of choice, and the poems here take as their subject matter the natural world as well as the human experience of it. . . . Sze-Lorrain’s steadfast translations, presented en-face, make accessible one of China’s most famous woman poets.” —Publishers Weekly
Related to Sea Summit
Related ebooks
The Milk Hours: Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Price of Scarlet: Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTrace Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings[To] The Last [Be] Human Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Four Reincarnations: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cold Pastoral: Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cenzontle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes?: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Clearing: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Scared Violent Like Horses: Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wilder Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5River House: Poems Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Moon Jar: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sycamore: Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUndercurrent Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not on the Last Day, But on the Very Last: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sharks in the Rivers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Buffalo Girl Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Glass Armonica: Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Names and Rivers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNight Picnic: Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In Accelerated Silence: Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5bury it Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beast at Every Threshold Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Little Ways down the Rabbit Hole Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To Make Room for the Sea: Poems Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Solve for Desire: Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEphemera Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beautiful Zero: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Poetry For You
The Things We Don't Talk About Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Better Be Lightning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love Her Wild: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prophet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Way Forward Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beyond Thoughts: An Exploration Of Who We Are Beyond Our Minds Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Leaves of Grass: 1855 Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Inward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dream Work Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Road Not Taken and other Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTwenty love poems and a song of despair Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Collection of Poems by Robert Frost Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of John Keats (with an Introduction by Robert Bridges) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enough Rope: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Sea Summit
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
3/5
2 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Sea Summit - Yi Lu
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1