First Mountain

The poet's journey to bury her grandparents' ashes in China becomes a dramatic narrative about ancestral landscapes, family, and ritual, with a tragic climax.

List of contents

Table of Contents

1. Forward to English readers by Zhang Er

2. Prelude: 9 poems

3. Travel West: 5 poems

4. Into the Home Village: 7 poems

5. The Funeral Procession : 7 poems

6. Round the Tomb: Return on the Third: 20 poems

7. Wu Tai Mountains: 5 poems

About the author

ZHANG ER, a poet born in Beijing, is the author of multiple books of poetry in Chinese. Verses on Bird and So Translating Rivers and Cities are two bilingual collections (Chinese/English) published by Zephyr Press, and she has also published a number of chapbooks in English translation. She co-edited Another Kind of Nation: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry, published by Talisman House Publishers in 2007. She is married to the American poet Leonard Schwartz and they live in the Pacific Northwest with their daughter Cleo. She is a professor at The Evergreen State College, WA.

Product details

• Authors: Er Zhang
• Assisted by: Joseph Donahue (Translation)
• Publisher: Zephyr Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 16
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.08.2018
• EAN: 9781938890932
• ISBN: 978-1-938890-93-2
• No. of pages: 329
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 201 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 295 g
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama