num_pages: 64
description: Poetry. "The China Notes come from a trip in 2002 that brought us out as far as the Gobi Desert &amp; allowed me to see some of the changes &amp; continuities throughout the country. I was traveling with poet &amp; scholar Wai-lim Yip &amp; had a chance to read poetry in five or six cities &amp; to observe things as part of an ongoing discourse with Wai-lim &amp; others. The ancient beauty of some of what we saw played out against the theme park quality of other simulacra of the past....A sense of beckoning wilderness/wildness in a landscape already cut into to serve the human need for power &amp; control." So Jerome Rothenberg describes the events behind the poems in this small volume--a continuation of his lifelong exploration of poetry and the search for a language to invoke the newness and strangeness both of what we observe and what we can imagine.
language: English
title: China Notes & The Treasures of Dunhuang
titlecomplete: China Notes & The Treasures of Dunhuang
publisher: Ahadada Books