In the Same Light: 200 Poems for Our Century Dochters

In the Same Light: 200 Poems for Our Century DochtersWong May, translation Chinese poetry is unique in world literature in that it was written for the best part of 3,000 years by exiles and refugees. In this anthology, we meet Du Fu, Li Bai, Wang Wei, and others less familiar to readers in English. Known as the Golden Age of Poetry, the Tang Dynasty was a time when poems were bartered for wine and tea, posted in temples and taverns; the words of poets unmissable as street art and signage. Monks,

Je moest me eens zien

dat zich steeds verder terugtrekt

Huff schreef het scenario voor de veelgeprezen verfilming van Niemand in de stad

een ode aan de natuur

Moro spent the next ten years in Mexico

De grote verrassing van dit debuut is de geheel eigen toon: ongenadig

This collection includes “The Glass Essay

kus me met je kussen de kussen van je mond je adem uitgegoten

the made-up city of Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence

Akhtar invokes the form of the grimoire

And sometimes I know the translator's simply talking about himself

and creative prose in the sequence of their composition