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Water Sprite

Songs for the God of Small Things

By: Ying Luo, Denis Mair (Translator)

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Paperback | 8 January 2024

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102 Pages

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22.8 x 15.2 x 0.64

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In poems that echo those of his classic ancestors Luo Ying captures the natural world.

Luo Ying is best-known for poems that give voice to his experiences during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) when he was one of the “sent-down youth.” The poems in Water Sprite show us that despite his experiences during those years, his individual voice was not crushed beneath the weight of ideology. In poems that harkens back to the observations in classical Chinese poetry, Ying focuses on small and often unobserved aspects of the natural world. His words paint delicate pictures of a world, and a psyche, that remained intact—though not untouched—through turmoil and chaos.

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Praise for Luo Ying:

"Luo Ying's 7 + 2 A Mountain Climber's Journal, which he calls 'mankind's first "7 + 2 Poetry Action," ' is the poetic record of his successful summiting of the tallest peaks on every continent and his treks to the North and South Poles. He documents in searing detail his encounters, in the most extreme conditions, with other climbers, Sherpas, and himself. 'While the rest of the world is sleeping,' he writes, 'I'm striding toward the light'-and that light shines on every page of this extraordinary book. For 'the mountain god has allowed [him] to bring back from the mountains a way of being that is natural, assured, and collected.' This is wisdom literature of the highest order."
-Christopher Merrill, author of Necessities

"These poems simultaneously celebrate the human spirt and the natural world, just as they critique our impact on the very landscapes within which we dwell. It is my hope that these poems become like mountain passes, navigable routes through the mountain range of different languages, cultures, classes, and ecological experiences. Our planet's most magnificent mountain ranges have long presented humans with forbidding barriers to travel, trade, and communication, and as such have become deeply lodged into our species psyche. While summiting peaks may provide fleeting moments of nearly omniscient perspective, poetry can serve as lasting passes through which we may cross for generations to come."
- Jonathan Stallings

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