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Raised by Wolves

By Amang
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Raised by Wolves is a bold collection of poems by Taiwanese poet-filmmaker Amang, blending incisive observation with confessional intimacy. From candid reflections on love to sharp commentary on international affairs, Amang captures life's cruelty and beauty with razor-sharp clarity. Uniquely, the book offers multiple English translations of the same poems, alongside dialogues between Amang and translator Steve Bradbury that explore linguistic and cultural nuances, reshaping how poetry translation is experienced.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This collection will appeal to readers interested in contemporary poetry, translation studies, and cross-cultural literary dialogue, as well as those drawn to Taiwanese literature and experimental forms of artistic collaboration.

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Biting poetry and bold translation theory from a Taiwanese feminist poet and her translator

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    Incisive and confessional, Raised by Wolves collects the most acclaimed work of Taiwanese poet-filmmaker Amang. In her poems, Amang turns her razor-sharp eye to everything from her suitors: "For twenty years I've loved you, twenty years / So why not say yes / You want to see my nude photos?" to international affairs: "You'd have to win the lottery ten times over / And the U.N. hasn't won it even once."

    Keenly observational yet occasionally absurd, these poems are urgent and lucid, as Amang embraces the cruelty and beauty of life in equal measure. Raised by Wolves also presents a groundbreaking new framework for translation. Far from positing the transition between languages as an invisible and fixed process, Amang and translator Steve Bradbury let the reader in. Multiple English versions of the same Chinese poem often accompany dialogues between author and translator.

    The two debate as wide-ranging topics as the merits of English tenses, the role of Chinese mythology, and whether to tell the truth you have to lie a little, or a lot. Author, her poems, and translator work in tandem, "Wanting that which was unbearable / To appear unbearable / Just as it should be."

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    Winner of the 2021 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, Raised by Wolves has been praised for its innovative approach to translation and poetic expression. Asymptote Journal highlights the work as a hybrid collection where "what is ‘lost’ at one point can be regained at another," creating an enriching experience for readers.

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    Book Details

    INFORMATION

    ISBN: 9781944700911

    Publisher: Unnamed Press

    Format: Paperback / softback

    Date Published: 15 October 2020

    Country: United States

    Imprint: Unnamed Press

    Illustration: Illustrations

    Contributors:

    • Translated by Steve Bradbury

    Audience: General / adult

    DIMENSIONS

    Width: 215.0mm

    Height: 139.0mm

    Weight: 250g

    Pages: 152

    About the Author

    Amang was born and raised on the scenic east coast of Taiwan. She is the author of four volumes of verse: On/Off: Selected Poems of Amang, 1995-2002 (2003), No Daddy (2008), Chariots of Women (2016), and As We Embrace Thousands Are Dying (2016). Her work has appeared in various print and online journals in Asia and the United States. An avid blogger and mountaineer, Amang makes video documentaries and "video poems." Her first documentary, Express Mail, Address Unknown, was featured at the 2011 Women Make Waves Film Festival in Taiwan. Poetry film Hot Spring Museum screened for one month at Beitou Hot Spring Museum. Poetry films Amniotic Fluid, oceans apart and MORE THAN ONE screened online by AXW Film Festival.

    Steve Bradbury lived for many years in Taiwan, where he was Associate Professor of English at National Central University and founding editor of Full Tilt: a journal of East-Asia poetry, translation and the arts. A long-standing member of the American Literary Translators Association, he is a recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship, and two Henry Luce Foundation Chinese Poetry & Translation Fellowships. He has published hundreds of translations in over fifty journals and anthologies and written extensively on the subject of Chinese poetry in translation. His most recent book-length translation, Hsia Y's Salsa (Zephyr Press, 2014), was short-listed for the Lucien Stryk Prize. His previous collection, a chapbook of the poetry of Ye Mimi entitled His Days Go by the Way Her Years (Anomalous Press 2013), was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award.

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