{"product_id":"moving-a-stone-bilingual-in-chinese-and-english-paperback","title":"Moving a Stone: Bilingual in Chinese and English - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYam Gong\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJames Shea\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eDorothy Tse\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYam Gong is a leading Hong Kong poet who has worked as a laborer since adolescence and produced many of his poems during his work breaks. An outsider poet, he explores the synthesis of everyday life and philosophical inquiry. Using shifting tonal registers, he refashions borrowed language, including English song lyrics, Cantonese wordplay, Chinese folk stories and poems, news reports, prayers, and slang. This bilingual volume is the first book-length collection of Yam Gong's poems in English, drawing from his most important work over the past forty years\u003ci\u003e. Moving a Stone: Selected Poems of Yam Gong\u003c\/i\u003e is the fourth title in Zephyr's Hong Kong Atlas series, the only series in the world to showcase Hong Kong poetry in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Shea is a poet, translator and essayist, whose poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Novel\u003c\/i\u003e, was named a \"Book of 2015\" by \"The Volta,\" and favorably reviewed in numerous publications. His earlier book, \u003ci\u003eStar in the Eye, \u003c\/i\u003e was selected for Poetry Society of America's New American Poets series and named as a Favorite Book of 2008 by the Chicago Sun-Times. His work has appeared in Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, The Iowa Review, and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day feature, and his translations have appeared in many publications as well. He teaches at Hong Kong Baptist University and received a 2020 NEA Literature Translation Fellowship to translate Yam Gong's \u003ci\u003eMoving a Stone.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 14, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767948640544,"sku":"9781938890871","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e13b180a2952a7625acf3fb82967744e.webp?v=1780321248","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/moving-a-stone-bilingual-in-chinese-and-english-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}