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A multifaceted collection by Jeffrey Yang, whose poetry is "flexible, expansive, sonorously clever" (The Millions).In Jeffrey Yang's vision for this brilliant new collection, the essence of poetry can be broken down into line and light. Dispersed across these poems are luminous centers, points of a constellation tracing lines of energy through art, myth, and history. These interconnections create vast and dynamic reverberations. As Yang asks i...

An extraordinary lyric and visual meditation on place, nature, and art rippling out from Marfa, TexasSituated in the outreaches of southwest Texas, the town of Marfa has long been an oasis for artists, immigrants looking for work, and ranchers, while the ghosts of the indigenous and the borders between languages and nations are apparent everywhere. The poet and translator Jeffrey Yang experienced the vastness of desert, township, sky, and time...

The year 2011 marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of New Directions, and what better way to celebrate than to dive into the diversity of its poets reveling in the wonders and joys of nature. Arranged chronologically by each poet's birth, Birds, Beasts, and Seas showcases the work of over one hundred and twenty poets from the U.S. and abroad, culled from the New Directions library. Beginning with ancient Chinese, Greek, Roman, Inuit, Japanese, ...

Night garden, moon calendar, soft mint scent. Warm wind, silent. Gold, silver debris. " --from "Yennecott" Jeffrey Yang's second collection of poems is an exploration of the various lines--horizon line, time line, blood line, poetic line--beyond which so much vanishes from sight, from memory. With historical documentation, lyrical association, and artistic virtuosity, Yang creates a collage of elegies, losses that are private and those th...

Time of Grief is an anthology of poems divided into forty-nine days of mourning: "forty-nine days of mourning: reflecting a period of grieving as observed in Buddhist and Judaic traditions. Each day's reading consists of one or more poems by some of the world's most celebrated poets from diverse cultures and centuries, from classical times to today. Seventy-five writers from over twenty countries confront illness, loss, love lost, death and mo...

Über dem Ozean ist der Horizont unendlich, und auch die Grenzen der Dichtung sind nicht auszumachen in diesem betörenden Debüt. Vom Meer aus betrachtet Jeffrey Yang die Welt, den Menschen und seine Kulturen, Wissenschaften, Geschichte(n), Poesien, Philosophien und Religionen. Sein Blick reicht weit über die Gegenwart und die Grenzen der USA hinaus: von Hawaii über das alte Ägypten, von den Olmeken über Jules Verne bis Vishnu, Google, Aristotel...

Christian missionaries in China have been viewed as agents of Western imperialist values. Yang Huilin, leading scholar of Sino-Christian studies, has dedicated himself to re-evaluating the history of Christianity in China and sifting through intellectual and religious results of missionary efforts in China. Yang focuses upon local histories of Christianity to chronicle its enduring good. China, Christianity, and the Question of Culture illumin...

Following the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2013, The World of Words is a collection of selected works by some of the most internationally acclaimed poets today. The poem "Orca” by Jeffrey Yang (USA) is finest contemporary poetry in trilingual or bilingual presentation.

Yennecott / nannten die Corchaug / diesen Ort" - einen Ort, der heute östlich von New York auf Long Island liegt und der zum Ausgangspunkt für Jeffrey Yangs Reise in die Anfänge der Vereinigten Staaten wird. In einer kunstvollen Verflechtung aus Poesie, Mythos und Historie berichtet Yang von europäischen Siedlern und nordamerikanischen Ureinwohnern, deren Geschichte - und Geschichten - fortan untrennbar voneinander verlaufen sollten.

This innovative new text from Jeffrey Sachs and Xiokai Yang introduces students to development economics from the perspectives of inframarginal analysis and marginal analysis. The book demonstrates how the new-found emphasis on inframarginal analysis has influenced a shift back to an interest in Classical Economics from Neoclassical Economics.

From "Abalone" to "Zooxanthellae, " Jeffrey Yang's debut poetry collection An Aquarium is full of the exhilarating colors and ominous forms of aquatic life. But deeper under the surface are his observations on war, environmental degradation, language, and history, as a father-troubled by violence and human mismanagement of the world-offers advice to a newborn son.

Improve your balance, strength, focus and martial skills as you master this elegant and effective weapon of Gong Fu with America's most respected author and teacher.

This innovative new text from Jeffrey Sachs and Xiokai Yang introduces students to development economics from the perspectives of inframarginal analysis and marginal analysis. The book demonstrates how the new-found emphasis on inframarginal analysis has influenced a shift back to an interest in Classical Economics from Neoclassical Economics.