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Ian Boyden
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September 2020
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September 2020
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Poems illuminate a hidden landscape in the names of children killed in the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
How do we honor the dead? How do we commit them to memory? And how do we come to terms with the way they died? To start, we can name them. When schools collapsed in an earthquake in China, burying over 5,000 children, the government brutally prevented parents from learning who had died. Artist Ai Weiwei, at risk to his own safety, gathered the names of these children, and their names are the subject of this book. Each poem is a poetic meditation on the image and concept suggested by the etymology in the Chinese characters. This act of poetic translation is both a heartbreaking tribute to people whose names have been erased, and a healing meditation on how language suggests a path forward.
July 30
Tiānwēi
Celestial Awe
He carried no iron into battle.
When he lifted his hand,
he brandished the sky.
Author
Ian Boyden
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Published
September 2020
Weight
477g
Dimensions
14.8 x 23.2 x 2.1 cm
ISBN
9780819579942
ISBN-10
0819579947
Eden Code
5216328
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Author/Creator: Ian Boyden
ISBN: 9780819579942
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date: September 2020
Weight: 477g
Dimensions: 14.8 x 23.2 x 2.1 cm
Eden Code: 5216328