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[anna]

http://thechronicleherald.ca/books/1176363-graham-s-fine-greene-s-a-master
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[[星子安娜]]

http://thechronicleherald.ca/books/1176363-graham-s-fine-greene-s-a-master
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[anna]

Dante’s House holds only a dozen poems, like Stations of the Cross or the division of the classic epic.

But the terminal and titular poem is a masterpiece. The second-last poem, Crooked Eclipses, yields lines that should last: “Just pain and sleep: chemo becomes morphine / and seventy years of being have been; / I substitute have seen you for will see. / Tenses shift and I prepare for memory.”

Dante’s House employs the eponymous poet’s transcendent rhyme scheme (also adapted by Walcott for his Omeros) — terza rima — to tell of a summer teaching-and-tourism trip to Italy and also of a mother’s passing.

The poem is rich with puns, witty rhymes, stunning images and moving moments. It is a deft, definite achievement. I’ll quote lines now: “I am glad of an art where nothing fits”; “remembered corpses / made a graveyard of the mind”; “I am again / made silent by a form that’s extreme // in its simplicity: A Christ … / whose four snapped off toes stand now for pain”; “The press of bodies moves us on.” Amen.
-- George Elliott Clarke


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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[[星子安娜]]

Dante’s House holds only a dozen poems, like Stations of the Cross or the division of the classic epic.

But the terminal and titular poem is a masterpiece. The second-last poem, Crooked Eclipses, yields lines that should last: “Just pain and sleep: chemo becomes morphine / and seventy years of being have been; / I substitute have seen you for will see. / Tenses shift and I prepare for memory.”

Dante’s House employs the eponymous poet’s transcendent rhyme scheme (also adapted by Walcott for his Omeros) — terza rima — to tell of a summer teaching-and-tourism trip to Italy and also of a mother’s passing.

The poem is rich with puns, witty rhymes, stunning images and moving moments. It is a deft, definite achievement. I’ll quote lines now: “I am glad of an art where nothing fits”; “remembered corpses / made a graveyard of the mind”; “I am again / made silent by a form that’s extreme // in its simplicity: A Christ … / whose four snapped off toes stand now for pain”; “The press of bodies moves us on.” Amen.
-- George Elliott Clarke


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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com