Ocean, as Much as Rain presents for the first time in the English-language world a collection of stories, poetry, and essays by leading Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser.
Ocean, as Much as Rain presents for the first time in the English-language world a collection of stories, poetry, and essays by leading Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser.
Tsering Woeser is a Tibetan writer, poet, activist, and the author of numerous books of poetry and prose. Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a writer, poet, translator, and the author of, most recently, Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories. Dechen Pemba is the editor of High Peaks Pure Earth.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword / Pankaj Mishra vii Introduction. Ocean Can Be Rain: Woeser’s Poetry, Fiction, and Lyrical Prose / Fiona Sze-Lorrain 1 Translation Credits 1. A Sheet of Paper Can Also Become a Knife 2. My Tongue Surgery 3. Spring 4. Rinchen the Sky-Burial Master 5. Tibet 6. Garpon La’s Offerings 7. On the Fifteenth Midnight of the Fourth Month in the Tibetan Calendar 8. Two Excerpts from The Prayer Beads of Fate 9. The King of Dzi 10. “Do Not Forget the Past . . .” 11. Celebrity Street Toilets in Lhasa 12. Ocean, as Much as Rain 13. Remembering a Smashed Buddha 14. The Ruins of Lhasa: Yabzhi Taktser 15. Let Me Write, the Fear of Lhasa Breaks My Heart 16. Only This Useless Poem—for Lobsang Tsepak 17. Back of Lhasa, Day One, from Seven Days in Lhasa 18. The Killing Trip 19. A Few Years Later 20. Masks and Tea 21. An Eye for History and Reality: Woeser and Her Story of Tibet / Dechen Pemba and Fiona Sze-Lorrain Acknowledgments Glossary of Place Names About the Editors, Translators, and Contributor Index
Foreword / Pankaj Mishra vii Introduction. Ocean Can Be Rain: Woeser’s Poetry, Fiction, and Lyrical Prose / Fiona Sze-Lorrain 1 Translation Credits 1. A Sheet of Paper Can Also Become a Knife 2. My Tongue Surgery 3. Spring 4. Rinchen the Sky-Burial Master 5. Tibet 6. Garpon La’s Offerings 7. On the Fifteenth Midnight of the Fourth Month in the Tibetan Calendar 8. Two Excerpts from The Prayer Beads of Fate 9. The King of Dzi 10. “Do Not Forget the Past . . .” 11. Celebrity Street Toilets in Lhasa 12. Ocean, as Much as Rain 13. Remembering a Smashed Buddha 14. The Ruins of Lhasa: Yabzhi Taktser 15. Let Me Write, the Fear of Lhasa Breaks My Heart 16. Only This Useless Poem—for Lobsang Tsepak 17. Back of Lhasa, Day One, from Seven Days in Lhasa 18. The Killing Trip 19. A Few Years Later 20. Masks and Tea 21. An Eye for History and Reality: Woeser and Her Story of Tibet / Dechen Pemba and Fiona Sze-Lorrain Acknowledgments Glossary of Place Names About the Editors, Translators, and Contributor Index
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