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"Poetry's ultimate goal," Li Nan writes, "is to keep oneself in equilibrium with good. It shines a beam of beauty, love, and kindness on people. It has a powerful spirit that transcends nation, race, and religion; it makes it possible for us to embrace in the darkness. Poetry takes place in time. I offer it in time as a witness to all that is." Small is a collection of ordinary images floating on the background of the ordinary life of ordinary Chinese people. It is profoundly local, bringing a cohesive and condensed light to a human world beautifully small. Each of the twenty-five poems, covering almost twenty-five years of writing, is memorable in itself, but what is most memorable is the tone of the book, a mixture of humility and the sheer joy of existence. (Chinese with English translations.)

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry

• Full title: Small
• Author: Li, Nan (Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64
• EAN: 9780977297481
• ISBN: 9780977297481
• ID: 07427562
• Publisher: Virtual Artists Collective
• Weight: 104 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 4 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 2007

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