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Republic of Apples, Democracy of Oranges presents nearly 100 poets and translators from China and the U.S.—the two countries most responsible for global carbon dioxide emissions and the primary contributors to extreme climate change. These poetic voices express the altered relationship that now exists between the human and non-human worlds, a situation in which we witness everyday the ways environmental destruction is harming our emotions and imaginations. “What can poetry say about our place in the natural world today?” ecologically minded poets ask. “How do we express this new reality in art or sing about it in poetry?” And, as poet Forrest Gander wonders, “how might syntax, line break, or the shape of the poem on the page express an ecological ethics?” Eco-poetry freely searches for possible answers. Sichuan poet Sun Wenbo writes:... I feel so liberated I start writing aboutthe republic of apples and democracy of oranges. When I seeapples have not become tanks, oranges not bombs, I know I've not become a slave of words after all. The Chinese poets are from throughout the PRC and Taiwan, both minority and majority writers, from big cities and rural provinces, such as Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture and Xinjiang Uyghur, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regions. The American poets are both emerging and established, from towns and cities across the U.S. Included are images by celebrated photographer Linda Butler documenting the Three Gorges Dam, on the Yangtze River, and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, on the Mississippi River Basin Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Han Shan’s Transparent Eyeball: The Asian Roots of American Eco-poetry / Barnstone, Tony -- Bamboo, Orange, Ocean, and Beyond / Di, Ming -- Four Poems / Wuwu, Aku -- Five Poems / Alcosser, Sandra -- Eating Fish / Amang -- Crows / Baoyinhexige -- Two Poems / Beauchamp-Sanchez, Trent -- This: Beside the Arno / Berdeshevsky, Margo -- Two Poems / Bond, Bruce -- Zoo Prayers / Brown, Nickole -- Two Poems / Byrne, Elena Karina -- Light Up / Dongdong, Chen -- Jade / He, Chen -- Questions of Cranes / Xianfa, Chen -- Ferry / Fengxiao, Dou -- Three Poems / Duo Duo -- Kansas / Fenaroli, Natalie -- Twice Alive (excerpt) / Gander, Forrest -- Two Poems / Xing, Gao -- Summer Night Wings / Gotera, Vince -- Asia Bronze / Zi, Hai -- Two Poems / Hirshfield, Jane -- Two Poems / Bin, Huang -- Faster Than a Lightning Flash / Lihai, Huang -- Two Poems / Irwin, Mark -- A Question to Ask Once the Honeymoon Is Over / Jacobs, Jessica -- The Shape of the Ocean / Hao, Jiang -- Snow in Ulan Bator / Tao, Jiang -- Two Poems / Majia, Jidi -- Call Her Suoma / Bu, Jike -- A Sacred Mango / Jin, Ha -- Salt / Kusnetz, Ilyse -- Happy Ants / Pingyang, Lei -- Three Poems / Heng, Li -- Dreaming of a Tiger’s Corpse / Hongwei, Li -- Look What I Have / Nan, Li -- Two Poems / Sen, Li -- Two Poems / Shaojun, Li -- Two Poems / Suo, Li -- Saving / Lim, Shirley Geok-lin -- Three Poems / Yu, Ling -- Night at Ocean Corner, and Women / De’an, Lü -- Rehearsal for Ending / Maclay, Sarah -- Gallina Canyon / Mason, David -- Some Floating Time in Light— For You / Fei, Mo -- Two Poems / Mo Mo -- Pasture / Moss, Stanley -- An Embroidery Needle Made from a Water-Deer Fang / Eni, Mushasijia -- Joy / Ye, Na -- Two Poems / Nye, Naomi Shihab -- The Fallacy of Snow / Xichen, Pan -- In the Next Life, a Tree / Parker, Alan Michael -- An American Tale / Prufer, Kevin -- Two Poems / Huadong, Qiu -- Apocalypse at the Safeway / Roberts, Suzanne -- To Burn a World / Sahagian-Limas, Brianna Lyn -- Glossolalia of Wind / Samaras, Nicholas -- Three Poems / Haobo, Shen -- Children of the Moon / Wei, Shen -- Pangolin Scales / Shoptaw, John -- John Shoptaw / Wei, Song -- What We Used to Call a River / Stern, Gerald -- Two Poems / Wenbo, Sun -- Two Poems / Svoboda, Terese -- Bloom / Sweeney, Chad -- Sprang / Sze, Arthur -- While Sick / Tentso, Tashi -- The Way to Jade Mountain / Tobin, Daniel -- Dogtrack / San, Un Sio -- The Man Who Cuts Firewood for the Winter / Jiaxin, Wang -- Two Poems / Ping, Wang -- Two Poems / Webb, Charles Harper -- Necropastorals / Weinert, Jonathan -- Jonathan Weinert / Wenthe, William -- Two Poems / Du, Xi -- Food Is Running Out / Shui, Xiao -- I Swallow an Iron Moon / Lizhi, Xu -- Three Poems / Jian, Yang -- Two Poems / Ke, Yang -- Three Poems / Mu, Yang -- Untitled / Senjun, Yang -- Untitled / Feng, Yao -- Two Poems / Xiaozhong, Yu -- Two Poems / Xiuhua, Yu -- Four Poems / Di, Zang -- Poem Written with Buson / Zapruder, Matthew -- Following Huang Gongwang / Yongming, Zhai -- Buji River Serenade / Er, Zhang -- Dozing at Middle Age / Qinghua, Zhang -- Two Poems / Zhihao, Zhang -- Industrial Zone / Xiaoqiong, Zheng -- The History of China in Numbers / Qingrong, Zhou -- Three Poems / Yu, Zhu -- About the Photographer -- About the Contributors -- Poets by Geographical Location -- Permissions
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