Description
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. This new collection contains seven chapters of bilingual poems. Beginning with a long narrative poem, "Song of the Wild Land" is a poetic travelogue drafted in 2014 after a journey taken by the author with schoolmates back to the remote village in China, where they were sent for re-education through physical labour in the 1970s after the Cultural Revolution. Poems in this collection were inspired by various human conditions, including precious moments, unforgettable meetings, helpless despair when losing loved ones, and emotional desperation.
Author Bio
Lien Chao came to Canada in 1984 to pursue her graduate studies. She is the author of BEYOND SILENCE: CHINESE CANADIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH (1997), winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian Criticism. Her publications also include TIGER GIRL: HU N¨ (2001), a creative memoir about growing up in Mao's China; STRIKE THE WOK: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE CANADIAN FICTION (2003), Ed. with Jim-Wong Chu; THE CHINESE KNOT AND OTHER STORIES (2008); and three collections of bilingual poetry, Maples and the Stream (1999), More Than Skin Deep (2004), and Salt In My Life (2019). As an inter-art artist, Lien Chao enjoys collaborating with artists of different disciplines in joint projects. She has also published several bilingual art books on Chinese Brush Painting. She strongly believes in cultural sharing via interactions among Canadians of different racial, cultural and spiritual backgrounds.
Author City: Toronto, ON CAN