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-Isms - Xiaobin Yang

-Isms

Selected Poems

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Buch | Softcover
144 Seiten
2026
Zephyr Press (Verlag)
978-1-938890-37-6 (ISBN)
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In this debut collection in English, one of China’s most famous poets offers biting musings on politics, ideologies, and mortality.

 

Yang Xiaobin is a household name in both Chinese and Taiwanese poetry circles. He was part of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, and after the government crackdown, left for graduate school in America. While in the US, he began a prolific career as a poet before moving to Taiwan, where he now lives, writes, and teaches. Several of the book’s poems satirize the use of “-ism” ideology, which was popular among Chinese intellectuals after the country opened up in 1978. Others come from his “Guidebook” series, offering “instructions” on different aspects of a rapidly commercializing lifestyle. While most of the poems are recent, the book will include some of his most representative and best-known older poems, without which no first collection could be complete. The volume includes a critical afterword by the translator.

Yang Xiaobin is a poet, scholar, and photographer. Born in Shanghai, China, he earned a Ph.D. in Chinese Literature from Yale University and taught at the University of Mississippi for many years before accepting a position at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Widely recognized as one of the most important Chinese-language poets of the last thirty years, Yang has published several collections in China. His poetry invokes postmodernism as satirical power and attempts to articulate the genuine through verbal play. Canaan Morse is a translator, poet, and scholar of premodern Chinese literature and oral performance. An original member of the Chinese literary translation collective Paper Republic, he has published translations of contemporary Chinese poetry and prose in multiple international journals. His latest two translations, both of novels by Ge Fei and published in the NYRB Classics Series, have respectively won the Susan Sontag Prize for Translation and been named Finalist for a National Book Award.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.3.2026
Übersetzer Canaan Morse
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Verlagsort Massachusetts
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 203 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
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Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-938890-37-X / 193889037X
ISBN-13 978-1-938890-37-6 / 9781938890376
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