MCLC: Sky Lanterns

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: mjournal-l at lists.hawaii.edu
Subject: Sky Lanterns
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MANOA Announces SKY LANTERNS
New Poetry from China, Formosa, and Beyond
Edited by Frank Stewart and Fiona Sze-Lorrain
18 illus., 158 pp., US$20, University of Hawai'i Press
available in July / August 2012

Purchase link:

http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8932-9780824836986.aspx

Sky Lanterns brings together innovative work by authors — primarily poets
— in mainland China, Taiwan, the United States, and beyond who are engaged
in truth-seeking, resistance, and renewal.  Appearing in new translations,
many of the works are published alongside the original Chinese text.  A
number of the poets are women, whose work is relatively unknown to
English-language readers.  Contributors include Amang, Bai Hua, Bei Dao,
Chen Yuhong, Duo Yu, Hai Zi, Lan Lan, Karen An-hwei Lee, Li Shangyin, Ling
Yu, Pang Pei, Sun Lei, Arthur Sze, Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Wei An, Woeser, Yang
Lian, Yang Zi, Yi Lu, Barbara Yien, Yinni, Yu Xiang, and Zhang Zao.

Sky Lanterns also features images from the Simple Song series by
photographer Luo Dan.  Traveling with a portable darkroom in remote,
mountainous regions of southern China’s Yunnan Province, Luo Dan uses the
laborious nineteenth-century, wet plate collodion process of exposure and
development.  In exquisite detail, he captures a rural life that has
remained intact for centuries.

The front cover features images from the Soul Stealer series by
photographers Zeng Han and Yang Changhong.  Together they photographed
Landplay, a traditional opera staging in villages in rural Guizhou,
southwest China; and Cosplay, a fantasy experience staged by teenagers
against the backdrop of the Yangtze River and the fast-developing city of
Chongqing.  Landplay depicts battle scenes and ancient spirits from
Chinese history. Cosplay depicts imaginary characters, mostly from
Japanese manga.  Both play types draw on an invented world rich in
cultural and spiritual themes.

SKY LANTERNS

Chinese, Taiwanese, Tibetan, and Asian-American Poets

Amang 阿芒
Bai Hua 柏桦
Bei Dao 北岛
Chen Yuhong 陳育虹
Duo Yu 朵渔
Hai Zi 海子
Lan Lan 蓝蓝
Karen An-hwei Lee
Li Shangyin 李商隐
Ling Yu 零雨
Pang Pei 庞培
Sun Lei 孙磊
Arthur Sze
Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Wei An 苇岸
Woeser 唯色
Yang Lian 杨炼
Yang Zi 杨子
Yi Lu 伊路
Barbara Yien
Yinni 隱匿
Yu Xiang 宇向
Zhang Zao 张枣

Translators:

Chloe Garcia-Roberts
Brian Holton
Denis Mair
Thomas Moran
Dechen Pemba
Frank Stewart
Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Michelle Yeh

Visual Artists:

Li Jun 李俊
Luo Dan 骆丹
Zeng Han 曾翰