"Her poems are not only beautiful, but astounding in their richness of information, news, glimpses, and inklings from more dimensions of world and mind than I can account for. Each poem is a potent nexus of imagination, memory, and piercing analysis. Yun Wang is a seer." —<b>Li-Young Lee
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“In Yun Wang’s <i>The Book of Mirrors</i>, “a silver portal opens to the hidden garden” of a fragrant universe. Myths, tales, and lyrical excavations reveal passageways that traverse inner and outer spaces humming with desire. Her collection is a generous invitation: each poem is a threshold to a world within a world.” —<b>Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, judge</b>

The Book of Mirrors is a silver portal opening to the hidden garden of a fragrant universe.

The Book of Mirrors by Yun Wang takes the reader on a journey of enlightenment through unexpected discoveries and heartbreaks. This adventure spans different realms: the ancient and the present, the physical and the metaphysical, poetry and science. It is an insistent search for truth, goodness, and beauty, within the scope of the infinite universe.

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The Book of Mirrors is a silver portal opening to the hidden garden of a fragrant universe.
I Face on Mars 2 Superstition of a Caged Bird 3 Cleopatra’s Dream 4 Regret 5 Sapphire 6 Bach’s Chaconne 7 Black Roses 8 Nocturne I 10 Muse with a Brown Paper Bag 11 Liebestraum 12 Poppies 13 Sirius 14 II The Nun and the Prince 16 Nine Springs 17 The Lovers of Teruel 18 Frida With Hummingbirds 19 Casanova: a Translation from Fellini 20 The Mirror’s Edge 21 A Night in Athens 22 San Francisco Bay at Night 23 Neighbors in Bathrobes 24 Nocturne II 25 Frondescence 26 Winter Seascape 27 Minuet 28 Ever After 29 Flowers in the Mirror 30 III Hidden 32 The Visitation 33 Shadow Test 34 Children’s Game in Baghdad 35 Green Stars 36 An Ancient Ice Bridge Breaks 37 Contact 38 The Beetle from Outer Space 39 Walking on Mars 40 Saturn’s Moons 41 Seascape at Santa Monica 42 Thousands of Years in a Glance 43 Migration 44 IV Horse by the Mountain Stream 46 August Dream 47 Immortality 48 Sam’s Plan 49 Sam’s Questions 50 Supermoon 51 Seascape at South Padre Island 52 Gifted with Beauty 53 Snow Angel 54 Transformation 55 The Burren 56 Fuerteventura at Night 57 The Butterfly 58 Epiphany 59 Forecasts 60
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781945680472
Publisert
2021-11-11
Utgiver
White Pine Press; White Pine Press
Høyde
152 mm
Bredde
228 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
100

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Om bidragsyterne

Yun Wang is the author of poetry books The Book of Totality (Salmon Poetry Press, 2015) and The Book of Jade (Winner of the 15th Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, Story Line Press, 2002), and the book of poetry translations Dreaming of Fallen Blossoms: Tune Poems of Su Dong-Po (White Pine Press, 2019). Wang’s poems have been published in numerous literary journals, including The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Cimarron Review, Salamander Magazine, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, and International Quarterly. Her translations of classical Chinese poetry have been published in The Kenyon Review Online, Salamander Magazine, Poetry Canada Review, Willow Springs, Kyoto Journal, Bat City Review, Xavier Review, Connotation Press, and elsewhere. Wang was born in China, and came to the U.S. for graduate school in 1985. She is an astrophysicist at California Institute of Technology, currently focusing on developing space missions to explore the Universe.