{"title":"Dong Li","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDong Li\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts evocative narratives that weave together elements of \u003cem\u003earts and culture\u003c\/em\u003e, offering readers a profound exploration of human experience through richly drawn stories. Works such as \u003cem\u003eThe Gleaner Song\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Orange Tree\u003c\/em\u003e showcase a delicate balance of lyrical prose and cultural insight, inviting readers into thoughtful and immersive worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy blending tradition with contemporary themes, the author’s books invite reflection on identity, memory, and the subtle nuances of everyday life. Dong Li’s writing appeals to those seeking literature that resonates with emotional depth and cultural richness.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-gleaner-song-by-dong-li-9781925818703","title":"The Gleaner Song","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSong Lin is one of China's most innovative poets. When the Tiananmen protest exploded in Beijing in June 1989, Song led student demonstrations in Shanghai and was imprisoned for almost a year. He left China soon afterwards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis selection of poems, made by the translator Dong Li and the poet himself, spans four decades of poetic exploration, with a focus on poems written during the poet's long stay in France, Singapore, Argentina, and more recently, his return to China.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs a result of his wanderings, Song Lin may be thought of as an international poet, open to an unusual extent to influences. Though informed by the classics and a thorough study of the Chinese language, his poetry weaves through American, French, and Latin American traditions. His influences are the modernists, the surrealists, the romantics, the deep imagists, and the objectivists. What distinguishes Song is his ability to absorb them all and make them his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the experience of displacement and exile, his poetry continues to open and expand its horizons. The title of the collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Gleaner Song\u003c\/i\u003e, indicates the range and nature of his achievement—it is about a certain kind of poetry, the work of the gleaner called Song.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFormed by his personal travails and layered experimentation, Song Lin's work explores a freer and wider spectrum of poetry.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eBei Dao\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47363112108268,"sku":"9781925818703","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/e5f81fada4841da0de6f74e5926c3828.jpg?v=1772931577"},{"product_id":"the-orange-tree-by-dong-li-9780226826165","title":"The Orange Tree","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDebut collection of poems that weaves stories of family history, war, and migration.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDong Li’s \u003cem\u003eThe Orange Tree\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of narrative poems that braids forgotten legends, personal sorrows, and political upheavals into a cinematic account of Chinese history as experienced by one family. Amid chaos and catastrophe, the child narrator examines a yellowed family photo to find resemblances and learns a new language, inventing compound words to conjure and connect family stories. These invented words and the calligraphy of untranslated Chinese characters appear in lists separating the book’s narrative sections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLi’s lyrical and experimental collection transcends the individual, placing generations of family members and anonymous others together in a single moment that surpasses chronological time. Weaving through stories of people with little means, between wars and celebrations, over bridges and walls, and between trees and gardens, Li’s poems offer intimate perspectives on times that resonate with our own. The result is an unflinching meditation on family history, collective trauma, and imaginative recovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Orange Tree\u003c\/em\u003e is the recipient of the inaugural Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize for 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464503378156,"sku":"9780226826165","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226826165-the-orange-tree.jpg?v=1775049379"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/dong-li.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}