A Tower Built Downwards
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By: Yang Lian, Brian Holton (Translator), Ai Weiwei (Designed by)
Paperback | 23 March 2023
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The creativity of the writing faces - is even excited by - the depth of the challenges of reality. The long title-poem in seven parts is a spiritual journey travelling back in time, completed back in the now, building up into 'a reincarnation within one', as endless time is transformed into multilayered poetical space, in Ai Weiwei's words: 'This intellectual tower... [turns] the unsurpassable puzzles intermingled with life and death into an in-depth exploration of human emotion.'
Ai Weiwei's innovative cover image featuring CCTV cameras and chains made of gold stretches around the whole book, across French flaps and then continues inside the front and back covers of the book, becoming an extraordinary metaphor for the book's content.
Industry Reviews
Repressive regimes tend to have little problem acknowledging poets' power to shape our opinions and our world. Some of those they exile settle in Britain. Yang Lian, a leading member of China's Tiananmen generation, has just published his autobiographical masterpiece Narrative Poem in translation... A kind of wild lyricism marks the work... a sense of the explosive urgency of writing itself. -- Fiona Sampson * The i Paper *
Yang Lian is one of the most ambitious poets writing in Chinese today - indeed, one of the most ambitious poets writing in any language... Narrative Poem represents a stunning achievement of both poet and translator, bringing the two together almost as one. -- Lucas Klein * Translation and Literature *
ISBN: 9781780376431
ISBN-10: 178037643X
Published: 23rd March 2023
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 160
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Bloodaxe
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.8 x 1.27
Weight (kg): 0.34
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