Book description
"Bloom and change your way of living," Xi Chuan exhorts us. "Bloom / unleash a deep underground spring with your rhizome." In his wildly roving new collection, Bloom & Other Poems, Xi Chuan, like a modern-day master of the fu-rhapsody, delves into the incongruities of daily existence, its contradictions and…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Bloom & Other Poems as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I found some of Xi Chuan’s poetic incantations mind-blowing, even exhilarating.
I was nowhere near China when I read Bloom last summer. Yet, the book transported me in a whirlwind to its throbbing cities. I danced to their rhythms, became party to the contradictions of modern life and to the ambiguities of being Chinese in the twenty-first century.
The poet has such a way with words, which gush seemingly unrestrained onto the page, telling of a place in the throes of tubulent change.
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