{"product_id":"where-the-sea-stands-still-new-poems-by-yang-lian","title":"Where the Sea Stands Still: New Poems, by Yang Lian","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBefore and since his enforced exile, Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and influential poets in China. Widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world literature, he has been translated into many languages, yet until now he has been little-known in Britain, despite being widely canvassed as a Nobel Prize candidate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eUnlike his contemporaries from the heady days of the Beijing Spring in the late 1970s - most of whom have either retreated into a very private poetry or stopped writing altogether - Yang Lian has gone on to forge a complex poetry whose themes are the search for a Yeatsian mature wisdom, the accommodation of modernity within the ancient and book-haunted Chinese tradition, and a rapprochement between the literatures of East and West.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eHis poems can be disturbing and strange, haunted as they are by the eerie ordinariness of life and death. But in the end it is a triumphant poetry, wholly engaged with the struggle to be alert to life, wholly engaged in the daily renewal, the search for that 'shore\/where we see ourselves set sail'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eCondition: Like New\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Used","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45179986608386,"sku":"9781852244712","price":150.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1160\/4950\/files\/06Junat08_39-1.jpg?v=1717655981","url":"https:\/\/bridgebooks.co.za\/products\/where-the-sea-stands-still-new-poems-by-yang-lian","provider":"Bridge Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}