Republic of Apples, Democracy of Oranges : : New Eco-poetry from China and the U.S. / / ed. by Ming Di, Frank Stewart, Tony Barnstone.
Republic of Apples, Democracy of Oranges presents nearly 100 poets and translators from China and the U.S.—the two countries most responsible for global carbon dioxide emissions and the primary contributors to extreme climate change. These poetic voices express the altered relationship that now exis...
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Han Shan’s Transparent Eyeball: The Asian Roots of American Eco-poetry -- Bamboo, Orange, Ocean, and Beyond -- Four Poems -- Five Poems -- Eating Fish -- Crows -- Two Poems -- This: Beside the Arno -- Zoo Prayers -- Light Up -- Jade -- Questions of Cranes -- Ferry -- Three Poems -- Kansas -- Twice Alive (excerpt) -- Summer Night Wings -- Asia Bronze -- Faster Than a Lightning Flash -- A Question to Ask Once the Honeymoon Is Over -- The Shape of the Ocean -- Snow in Ulan Bator -- Call Her Suoma -- A Sacred Mango -- Salt -- Happy Ants -- Dreaming of a Tiger’s Corpse -- Look What I Have -- Saving -- Night at Ocean Corner, and Women -- Rehearsal for Ending -- Gallina Canyon -- Some Floating Time in Light— For You -- Pasture -- An Embroidery Needle Made from a Water-Deer Fang -- Joy -- The Fallacy of Snow -- In the Next Life, a Tree -- An American Tale -- Apocalypse at the Safeway -- To Burn a World -- Glossolalia of Wind -- Children of the Moon -- Pangolin Scales -- John Shoptaw -- What We Used to Call a River -- Bloom -- Sprang -- While Sick -- The Way to Jade Mountain -- Dogtrack -- The Man Who Cuts Firewood for the Winter -- Necropastorals -- Jonathan Weinert -- Food Is Running Out -- I Swallow an Iron Moon -- Untitled -- Poem Written with Buson -- Following Huang Gongwang -- Buji River Serenade -- Dozing at Middle Age -- Industrial Zone -- The History of China in Numbers -- About the Photographer -- About the Contributors -- Poets by Geographical Location -- Permissions |
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Summary: | Republic of Apples, Democracy of Oranges presents nearly 100 poets and translators from China and the U.S.—the two countries most responsible for global carbon dioxide emissions and the primary contributors to extreme climate change. These poetic voices express the altered relationship that now exists between the human and non-human worlds, a situation in which we witness everyday the ways environmental destruction is harming our emotions and imaginations. “What can poetry say about our place in the natural world today?” ecologically minded poets ask. “How do we express this new reality in art or sing about it in poetry?” And, as poet Forrest Gander wonders, “how might syntax, line break, or the shape of the poem on the page express an ecological ethics?” Eco-poetry freely searches for possible answers. Sichuan poet Sun Wenbo writes:. I feel so liberated I start writing aboutthe republic of apples and democracy of oranges. When I seeapples have not become tanks, oranges not bombs, I know I've not become a slave of words after all.The Chinese poets are from throughout the PRC and Taiwan, both minority and majority writers, from big cities and rural provinces, such as Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture and Xinjiang Uyghur, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regions. The American poets are both emerging and established, from towns and cities across the U.S. Included are images by celebrated photographer Linda Butler documenting the Three Gorges Dam, on the Yangtze River, and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, on the Mississippi River Basin. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780824883287 9783110719567 9783110610765 9783110664232 9783110610369 9783110606348 9783110658149 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780824883287 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Ming Di, Frank Stewart, Tony Barnstone. |
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