My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree
Selected Poems
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
9 February 2021
Summary
Yi Lei published her poem “A Single Woman’s Bedroom” in 1987, when cohabitation before marriage was a punishable crime in China. She was met with major critical acclaim—and with outrage—for her frank embrace of women’s erotic desire and her unabashed critique of oppressive law. Over the span of her revolutionary career, Yi Lei became one of the most influential figures in contemporary Chinese poetry.
Passionate, rigorous, and inimitable, the poems in My Name Will Grow Wide Like a …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644450406 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1644450402 |
| Author: | Yi Lei |
| Publisher: | Graywolf Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Graywolf Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 9 February 2021 |
| Weight: | 233g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 156mm x 230mm |
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Critics Review
“Yi Lei’s astonishing poems, steeped in disquiet and desire, are at once aching and incendiary. Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi have coaxed them into English respectfully, inventively, and gorgeously… . A resonant conversation between two exceptional poets.”–Jhumpa Lahiri
“Even posthumously, Yi Lei remains one of the most revolutionary voices in Chinese poetry. This volume presents the expertly translated English poems alongside their Chinese originals for a beautiful and essential collection for any poetry lover.”–Ms. Magazine
“These poems in English are a tour de force… . In our own moment of urgency, this collection is, as Smith says, essential.”–RHINO
Yi Lei
Yi Lei (1951-2018) received the Zhuang Zhongwen Literature Prize and published eight collections of poems, including A Single Woman’s Bedroom, The Love Poems of Yi Lei, and Women’s Age. Her work has been translated into five languages.
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