Lian Yang - A Tower Built Downwards - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A Tower Built Downwards is the latest instalment of poetry from one of the most innovative and influential poets from China. Before and since his enforced exile from 1989, Yang Lian has been widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world literature he has been translated into many languages. The different sections - short poems sequences and one long poem - form a single comprehensive statement of Yang's recent explorations. It is rooted in his living experience of the historical retrogression of Hong Kong the disaster of Covid - 19, the global spiritual crisis as well as his personal sadness at events such as his father's death. Yang Lian's work was criticised in China in 1983 and formally banned in 1989 when he organised memorial services for the dead of Tiananmen while in New Zealand. This edition of A Tower Built Downwards contains the full unabridged collection including poems that were removed for its publication in China.
Title: A Tower Built Downwards
Author(s): Lian Yang
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781780376431
Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/6/2023
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets