ISBN: 0-88739-441-8
80 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 6/2001
Paperback Original
Price: $15.00
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Replies to Wang Wei
A Donald S. Ellis Book
Barry Gifford
Fashioned as a response to the work of the great poet of the T'ang Dynasty, Wang Wei, Barry Gifford presents us with a collection of gems, poems mostly in the Chinese manner. Along with these "replies," are a series of poems for paintings and Gifford's continuing "Chinese Notes."
I keep
in
my apricot chest
the willow
branch
you gave me
the morning
we parted
at Peach Blossom
Spring
brittle now
I handle it
tenderly
How can it be
you are
no longer
there
to dangle
your fingers
in the bright
green
water
-from Replies to Wang Wei
by Barry Gifford 0887394418E.doc
Review: "Gifford never fails to surprise. These poems are like Zen dominoes: no matter how shuffled, they always seem to come out right."
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Bio: BARRY GIFFORD is the author of the novels Wild At Heart and Wyoming, among others, as well as memoirs, essays, short stories, plays and screenplays, such as Lost Highway (with David Lynch).
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