Stitching Porcelain: Poetry
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0811211614
ISBN-13
9780811211611
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Imprint
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 17th, 1991
Print length
61 Pages
Weight
126 grams
Dimensions
17.10 x 16.00 x 0.80 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: from c 1900 -Literary studies: poetry & poets
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Stitching Porcelain, Deborah Larsen's first book of poetry, is a narrative-lyric sequence based on the life of Matteo Ricci, the resourceful Jesuit who entered China in 1583 and stayed for a quarter century. Pondering cultural accommodation as well as faith, many of the poems center on actual events: Ricci's dressing as a Buddhist; his awe-inspiring map (with China shrewdly centered); his prostration before an empty Dragon Throne. Other events the poet imagined. (In the title room, Ricci addresses a love lyric to China: "Your porcelain is so fine, so thin,/a brass wire can repair it . . . /Once I saw you beneath the bamboo/ . . . bent back/from the world, stitching porcelain.") With a felicity rare in a debut volume, Larsen's opalescent poetry works in perfect counterpoint to the strange and brilliant Ricci.
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