Ebook: Wild geese returning : Chinese reversible poems
Author: Gladding Jody, Métail Michèle, Yang Jeffrey
- Tags: Chinese poetry -- History and criticism, Chinese poetry, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Series: Calligrams.
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: The Chinese University Of Hong Kong Press
- Language: English
- epub
"The genre of poems that may be read both forward and backward, producing different creations was known as the "flight of wild geese." These poems were often sent so that a distant lover, like the migrating birds, would return. Its greatest practitioner, and the focus of this critical anthology, is Su Hui, a woman who, in the 4th Century, embroidered a silk for her distant husband using a grid of 840 characters that Read more...