pickI love this book! At first glance a direct descendant of traditional pastoral poetry, it soon reveals that passively consuming nature (and pretty poems about it!) is not an option. Rusty iron girders have a place alongside the birds and flowers and all demand that the reader, no less than Yi Lu herself (with her remarkable porosity), be an active participant: our actions affect the natural world but so are we changed in our trajectories by a bird.
#merry #poetrymatters @LazyDays
I am loving this book! When I reached the end I went straight back to the beginning again. ❤
#sea #poetrymatters @LazyDays
I'm currently borrowing this book from the Poetry Library but I'm going to have to get myself a print copy.
pickIs there such an eagle
...
isn't *open* and *clear* a finer barrier
isn't *obstacle free* a harsher siege...
I read this as a collection of #poetryintranslation for #readharder. It's a strange one, with themes of nature and the body, birth and traffic, vases and weather. There are parts I just can't grasp, and I suspect reading the original before translation would be very different. But I enjoyed reading it.
#litsypoetry365
Two Porcelain Vases
💙💙💙 And I have no idea why!
Full poem at https://muse.jhu.edu/article/482321 (scroll down for English translation)
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only in a dim room
can sunlight turn gold
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...
all of them like tiny saucers tiny bowls tiny cups
filled to the brim with their own colours
- Valley's Green
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'Creamy sunlight seems to pour itself into love'
Finally decided on a collection of poetry in translation for #readharder. This was on a translated books shortlist last year http://www.rochester.edu/college/translation/threepercent/index.php?id=17432
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Sea Summit: Poems | 
