My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree (Poetry)

Selected Poems

My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree (Poetry)
Tracy K Smith, Yi Lei
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h229 x 152mm - 192pg
3 Nov 2020
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9781644450406
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One of China' s most significant contemporary poets, co-translated by former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith 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 Tree celebrate the joys of the body, ponder the miracle of compassion, and proclaim an abiding reverence for the natural world. Presented in the original Chinese alongside English translations by Changtai Bi and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, this collection introduces American readers to a boundless spirit--one "composing an explosion. "
"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
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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ISBN-13: 9781644450406
Published: 3 Nov 2020
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Imprint: Graywolf Press
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 192

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