{"product_id":"verses-on-bird-1","title":"Verses on Bird","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eVerses on Bird\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eEr Zhang\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780939010806\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eZephyr Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2004\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eChinese\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e104\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eSigned by the author. Inscribed to Edward Halsey Foster.  Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"... a highly developed range that's very beautiful.\"--Leslie Scalapino\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZhang Er grasps for the spiritual through objects of the mundane, quietly detailing the wonder and desperation that courses through human lives. In these poems, the eye watches the eye so that no facet of our existence remains unexplored. \"Zhang Er belongs to the generation beyond lament or anger over the hardship endured by Chinese intellectuals, from overthrown rebellion to construction, from confusion to clarity, from darkness to light (ambiguity to clarity). She walks out of suffering and uncertainty, discovers the loveliness, preciousness of life and self-respect . . .\"--(\u003ci\u003eNew World Poetry Bimonthly\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the poem \"Verses on Bird\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom classical fugues to Romanticism, this effort\u003cbr\u003eproduced\u003cbr\u003eSchubert. When storms attack, the nightjar's cry\u003cbr\u003eSwells. The noble revolution will require great\u003cbr\u003eSacrifice, yet do not ask me to capture this process on\u003cbr\u003ethe black\u003cbr\u003eAnd white keys, nor to switch to another tone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI could not find two birds with identical pitch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith nothing to induce it, innocence makes me walk\u003cbr\u003eInto rushing water as if I were brave. Empty space is great, but nothing\u003cbr\u003eRepeats itself there. Whether I do\u003cbr\u003eOr whether I don't; from each, the sum of the piano's voice will rise.\u003cbr\u003eNot to be doubted: bird writes poem, one vowel at a time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZhang Er was born in Beijing, China and moved to the United States in 1986. Her poetry, nonfiction and essays have appeared in publications throughout the world, and she is the author of multiple books in Chinese and in English translation. She has also participated in projects sponsored by the New York Council for the Arts and by the Minetta Brook Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Zephyr Press","offers":[{"title":"Verses on Bird | Er Zhang | Paperback | 9780939010806 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks R 1757397","offer_id":49157227708568,"sku":"1757397","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51Pk-5Af0oL.jpg?v=1779750081","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/verses-on-bird-1","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}