Product Description: Xiang Yang's poetry stands as elegant testimony to the Taiwan experience. From start to finish, the collection is an articulation of Taiwan's identity imbued with salient cultural details.The range and variety of his seven books of poetry include the development of a new formalism, narrative verse forms, and a strong engagement with Taiwanese dialect poetry...read more

Product Description: Poetry. East Asia Studies. Translation. This is a new and revised edition, originally published by BOA Editions in 2000. "In Crossing the Yellow River, Sam Hamill remaps Chinese poetry for our time. Anyone who writes poetry, or who cares about it, must have this book...read more

Product Description: In seventh moon Fire Star west goes;In ninth we make dresses all day long.By and by warm spring growsAnd golden orioles sing their song.The lasses take their baskets deepAnd go along the small pathwaysTo gather tender mulberry leaves in heapWhen lengthen the vernal days,They pile in heaps the southernwood,Their heart in gloomy mood,For they will say adieu to maidenhood...read more

Product Description: The book introduces Chinese culture to readers of English, using poetry from the various periods rendered into English verse to bring back to life past Chinese society as it developed from about 1000 B.C to the form we see today. With China's increasing importance on the world stage today, many readers, no doubt, would want to learn more about its ancient culture...read more