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Wild Geese Returning Michele Metail

  • SKU: BELL-42941308
Wild Geese Returning Michele Metail
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Publisher: New York Review Books
File Extension: EPUB
File size: 127.67 MB
Author: Michele Metail
ISBN: 9789629968007, 9789629968168, 9629968002, 9629968169
Language: English
Year: 2017

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Wild Geese Returning Michele Metail by Michele Metail 9789629968007, 9789629968168, 9629968002, 9629968169 instant download after payment.

A breathtaking introduction to Chinese multidirectional poems, told through the story of Su Hui, the greatest writer of these poems who embroidered a silk with 840 characters—equaling as many as 12,000 multidirectional poems—for her distant husband.
For nearly two thousand years, the condensed language of classical Chinese has offered the possibility of writing poems that may be read both forward and backward, producing entirely different creations. The genre was known as the "flight of wild geese," and the poems were often symbolically or literally sent to a distant lover, in the hope that he or she, like the migrating birds, would return.
Its greatest practitioner, and the focus of this critical anthology, is Su Hui, a woman who, in the fourth century, embroidered a silk for her distant husband consisting of a grid of 840 characters. No one has ever fully explored all of its possibilities, but it is estimated that the poem—and the poems within the...

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