Wild Geese Returning - Metail, Michele
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The genre of poems that may be read both forward and backward, producing different creations was known as the ""flight of wild geese"". These poems were often sent so that a distant lover, like the migrating birds, would return. Its greatest practitioner, and the focus of this critical anthology, is Su Hui, a women who, in the 4th century embroidered a silk for her distant husband using a grid of 840 characters that created perhaps 12,000 ways to read this poem. With examples from the 3rd to the 19th centuries, Michele Metail describes reversible poems as ""a singular adventure at the edge of meaning, of language, and of writing"".…mehr

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The genre of poems that may be read both forward and backward, producing different creations was known as the ""flight of wild geese"". These poems were often sent so that a distant lover, like the migrating birds, would return. Its greatest practitioner, and the focus of this critical anthology, is Su Hui, a women who, in the 4th century embroidered a silk for her distant husband using a grid of 840 characters that created perhaps 12,000 ways to read this poem. With examples from the 3rd to the 19th centuries, Michele Metail describes reversible poems as ""a singular adventure at the edge of meaning, of language, and of writing"".
Autorenporträt
Michele Metail is an avant-garde poet and sinologist from France and the first women member of Oulipo. This is her first book in English translation. Jody Gladding is a poet and translator. She has received the French-American Foundation Translation Award and the Yale Younger Poets Prize.