New Book Announcement: “Green Mountain”, poetry by Yang Jian, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Green Mountain: Poems, Yang Jian, Fiona Sze-Lorrain trans) MerwinAsia, November 2020)
Green Mountain: Poems, Yang Jian, Fiona Sze-Lorrain (trans) (MerwinAsia, November 2020)

Green Mountain compiles a representative selection of lyrical poems by contemporary Chinese poet and painter Yang Jian, also a Buddhist, in Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s elegant translation.

Exploring history, faith, memory, nature, and the various transient complexities of human existence, these poems seek a pure form of simplicity in thought and style, reminiscent of meditative beauty and Asian ink-wash painting aesthetics.

 

Green Mountain: Poems by Yang Jian, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
MerwinAsia, November 2020 (ISBN 9781937385736)