Mirrors and Windows: East-West Poems with translations

Mirrors and Windows: East-West Poems with translations

Mirrors and Windows: East-West Poems with translations

Mirrors and Windows: East-West Poems with translations

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Overview

Over the years Anna Yin has had the honour to translate more than 50 poets’ works. With more and more people growing interested in translation and bilingual poetry, it is time to publish these translations in book form. I hope this serves as a good resource, and will further stimulate wider and stronger interest and conversation for cross-cultural exchange. As Maya Angelou said: "I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself." I hope this contribution will open more of these homes.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781771836159
Publisher: Guernica Editions, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/01/2021
Series: Essential Anthologies Series , #14
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 9.00(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Anna Yin was Mississauga’s Inaugural Poet Laureate (2015-2017) and has authored five poetry collections. Her poems/translations have appeared at ARC Poetry, the New York Times, China Daily, CBC Radio, World Journal etc. Anna won several poetry awards and teaches Poetry Alive in both English and Chinese.

Table of Contents

On Translating Poetry: To Be Precise George Elliott Clarke $$$ 14

Why Mirrors and Windows? $$$ 18

Part 1 From-English to Chinese | $$$

From Canada | $$$

Albert F. Moritz's five poems | $$$

What They Prayed For | $$$ 22

A Narrow Silent Throat | $$$ 24

Poem of Courtly Love | $$$ 26

Every Step Was into a New World | $$$ 28

Poetry | $$$ 30

Alice Major's two poems | $$$

Advice to the Lovelorn | $$$ 32

The Muse of Universes | $$$ 36

Allan Briesmaster's two poems | $$$

Jazz Quartet | $$$ 38

Ask | $$$ 40

Bruce Hunter | $$$

Picking Apples $$$ 42

Bruce Meyer | $$$

Vanishing Cream | $$$ 44

Catherine Graham's two poems | $$$ 48

Imago | $$$ 48

There Is a Stir, Always | $$$ 50

D.C. Reid | D.C. $$$

Tulips | $$$ 52

Gerry Mattia | $$$

Life | $$$ 54

George Elliott Clarke's six poems $$$

Self-Composed $$$ 58

Tombeau de Keats | $$$ 60

Translated from the Spanish | $$$ 62

Exile | $$$ 64

Ode to Machiavelli | $$$ 70

I.B. (Bunny) Iskov | I.B. $$$

When He Died, He Took One Last Poem with Him 72

$$$

James Deahl | $$$

Ulysses | $$$ 74

Joe Rosenblatt | $$$

Poem | $$$ 78

John B. Lee | $$$

Being Human | $$$ 80

Kate Marshall Flaherty's two poems $$$

Silver Bridge | $$$ 84

Dragon Fruit | $$$ 88

Kateri Lanthier | $$$

Guanyin Lamp | $$$ 92

Laurence Hutchman $$$

The Chinese Man | $$$ 96

Laura Lush | $$$

Winter | $$$ 98

Marty Gervais | $$$

Angel Guardian | ^$$$ 100

Meaghan Strimas | $$$

Nonsense Poem, or I Like | $$$ 104

Milton Acorn | $$$

I've Tasted My Blood | $$$ 106

Molly Peacock's three poems | $$$

Couple Sharing a Peach | $$$ 108

Why I am Not a Buddhist | $$$ 110

The Flaw | $$$ 112

P.K. Page | $$$

Single Traveler | $$$ 114

Patrick Connors | $$$ 116

Priscila Uppal | $$$ 120

Richard Greene's four poems | $$$

Window | $$$ 124

The Season | $$$ 126

Beside the Funeral Home | $$$ 128

From Dante's House | $$$ 130

Ronna Bloom | $$$

Salve 132

Susan McMaster | $$$

Bitter Bread | $$$ 134

From the U.S. and elsewhere | $$$

Andrew Motion (England) | $$$

In the Attic | $$$ 138

A.E. Stallings | A.E. $$$$

The Mistake | $$$ 140

C.D. Wright's three poems | C.D. $$$

Until words turn to moss | $$$ 142

In our only time | $$$ 144

Only the crossing counts | $$$ 146

Cally Conan-Daves | $$$

Strife | $$$ 148

Dana Gioia's three poems | $$$

Do Not Expect | $$$ 150

Prayer | $$$ 152

Thanks for Remembering Us | $$$ 154

David Mason | $$$

Turn | $$$ 156

Don Schaeffer | $$$

Lifetime Performance | $$$ 158

Lois P. Jones | $$$

Grand Canyon, North Rim | $$$ 160

Joseph Fasano | $$$

Letter | $$$ 164

Nikki Giovanni | $$$

A Robins Nest in Snow | $$$ 166

R.S. Gwynn | R.S. $$$

Time | $$$ 168

Rebecca Foust | $$$

Only | $$$ 170

Part 2 From Chinese to English | $$$

$$$ | Luo Fu's four poems

$$$ | Early Snow 174

$$$ | Thirteen Short Poems 180

$$$ | Twelve Ways of Reading Poetry 184

$$$ | Because of the Wind 188

$$$ | Ya Xuan

$$$ | Songs 190

$$$ | Xin Mu's three poems

$$$ | Pupa 192

$$$ 194

From Double-link to Fresh-water by the Rapid Transit $$$ | Short Poems, 196

$$$ | Gu Yue's two poems

$$$ | Crossing 200

$$$ | Sleeping on Memory, 202

$$$ | Xiao Jin

$$$ 206

To the Breath of Water in the Intense Fire

$$$ | Lan Lan's two poems

$$$ | The Sound of Time 208

$$$ | The Ruins 210

$$$ | Li Shaojun's two poems

$$$ | A Rock 212

$$$ | A Night in Mountains 214

$$$ | Shen He

$$$ | Old Lanes 216

$$$ | Li Jiajian's two poems

$$$ | Community Mahjong Array 218

$$$ | Autumn Poem 220

$$$ | Gao Lian

$$$ | The Night in Which Songs Rise 222

$$$ | He Jun

$$$ | The Sound of Peeling a Pear 224

$$$ | Wang Xusheng

$$$ | The Still Life 226

$$$ | David Shu

$$$ 228

From the Tang Dynasty to the South of the Yangtze River

$$$ | Li Guang Tian

$$$ | A Smile Seed, 230

$$$ | Lin Jing

$$$ | Winter Day 232

$$$ | Cai Li hua

$$$ 234

The Variation of Moonlight and the Lake

$$$ | Xiao Ming

$$$ | The Room of Desire 238

$$$ | Ajiu's two poems

$$$ | Middle East 240

$$$ | Passing 242

$$$ | Tian Duan

$$$ | Serve a Sentence 244

$$$ | Yao Yuan's two poems

$$$ 246

If the Blue Sky Could he Packed up

$$$ | Believe 248

Part 3 Poems Inspired by translations | $$$

The Great Cold | $$$ 252

A Dream | $$$ 254

Late Trains | $$$ 256

Lucky Days | $$$ 258

In Duplicate | $$$ 260

To Molly Peacock | $$$ 262

Spirit Tree | $$$ 264

Poets' Biographies $$$

English poets | $$$ 268

From Canada | $$$ 268

From the U.S. and elsewhere | $$$ 273

From Chinese poets | $$$ 276

About the translator | $$$ 279

Acknowledgements | $$$ 280

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