My Village

Selected Poems, 1966-2014

Wu Sheng author John Balcom translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Zephyr Press

Published:16th Jul '20

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

My Village cover

  • Advance galleys to Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, NPR;
  • Review and feature article campaign to 50 publications, including poetry, Asian, environmental, mainstream;
  • Featured title at AWP, Boston Book Fair, Brooklyn Book Festival, ALTA;
  • Eblasts to creative writing, Chinese/Asian Studies departments;
  • Social media campaign;
  • Submission to all relevant literary awards;
  • Potential core text for World Literature, Comparative Literature, Creative Writing courses;
  • Special attention to northern California bookstores and media, where translator lives;
  • Ads in Chinese Literature Today, Words Without Borders.

    • A farmer and environmentalist poet who writes of rural life in Taiwan in simple, colloquial poems that depict his vanishing world.Wu Sheng has written vivid poems about rural life and the land since the 1960s, when he became one of Taiwan’s most popular poets. His poems are rooted in the soil, embued with an unshakable affinity for the people who till it, sweat over it, and eventually are buried in it, and serve as his personal response to the industrialization, urbanization and globalization of his vanishing world.

    ISBN: 9781938890796

    Dimensions: unknown

    Weight: unknown

    180 pages