Moving a stone Selected poems by Yam Gong = Ban shi : Yinjiang shi xuan
Book - 2022
"Yam Gong is a leading Hong Kong poet who has worked as a laborer since adolescence and produced many of his poems during his work breaks. An outsider poet, he explores the synthesis of everyday life and philosophical inquiry. Using shifting tonal registers, he refashions borrowed language, including English song lyrics, Cantonese wordplay, Chinese folk stories and poems, news reports, prayers, and slang. This bilingual volume is the first book-length collection of Yam Gong's poems in English, drawing from his most important work over the past forty years. Moving a Stone: Selected Poems of Yam Gong is the fourth title in Zephyr's Hong Kong Atlas series, the only series in the world to showcase Hong Kong poetry in English.&quo...t; --
- Subjects
- Genres
- Poetry
- Published
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[Brookline, Massachusetts] :
Zephyr Press
2022.
[Hong Kong] : 2022. - Language
- English
Chinese - Main Author
- Other Authors
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- Physical Description
- xvi, 191 pages ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781938890871
- Translators' Introduction
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- Daily Life
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- Reclamation
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- On the Margins
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- The Salted Fish Shop (A Sonnet)
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- And So You Look at Festival Lights along the Street
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- The Subway
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- The Sinful Swan
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- Flying Ants Approaching Water
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- Back Pain
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- Quiet Night Thoughts
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- An Occasion
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- The Emperor's New Clothes
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- Waiting for '97 and Godot
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- A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings
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- The Auntie Who Offered Water (A Story from My Mother)
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- The Braking Bus
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- Collected Poems from the King of Laziness (4 Selections)
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- Startling Hair
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- A Tolerant Person
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- Excercises in Fireworks (20)
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- I Have Cheeks
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- Report 123
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- Mute Wish
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- Blind Drifting
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- Meditation
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- Moving a Stone
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- Performance Art
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- An Entryway/A Resting Place
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- The Third Bank
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- A Fox's Tale in Seven Parts
- Somewhere ...
- Somewhere ...
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- Found Object (Urinal)
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- Plugging Your Ears to Steal a Bell
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- Standing an Egg on a Stone Table
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- Just Come Along
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- Rubbing Black Bean Sauce on a Pomfret
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- A Fallen Apple and Just a Folk Song
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- A Song from Mother Mary and Miss Condoleezza Rice
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- Impromptu 123
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- Études No. 1-6 for Hide-and-Seek-Peekaboo
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- The Chalk Circle
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- Deep River
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- Tagging along with the Ascetic Practice of Silence
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Contributor Bios