Self Translation

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Self Translation
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Ouyang Yu
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 135
Category/GenrePoetry
ISBN/Barcode 9781921924279
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Transit Lounge Publishing
Imprint Transit Lounge Publishing
Publication Date 1 August 2012
Publication Country Australia

Description

'in the river before the eye on the heaven beneath the feet' Poems first written in Chinese but now presented in both Chinese and English, Self Translation is arguably Ouyang Yu's most lyrical and resonant collection of poetry to date. The verse inhabits China and Australia in spirit and the natural world in both nations. Mellow and beautiful, yet questioning of the author's own experience of moving between cultures, these are poems that provide a perfect companion to Ouyang's award-winning novel The English Class. They feel at once Chinese and Australian in the intuitive and often indefinable elements that provide a path between two places.