The Orange Tree

DESCRIPTION :
Debut collection of poems that weaves stories of family history, war, and migration.  
 
Dong Li’s The Orange Tree is a collection of narrative poems that braids forgotten legends, personal sorrows, and political upheavals into a cinematic account of Chinese history as experienced by one family. Amid chaos and catastrophe, the child narrator examines a yellowed family photo to find resemblances and learns a new language, inventing compound words to conjure and connect family stories. These invented words and the calligraphy of untranslated Chinese characters appear in lists separating the book’s narrative sections.
 
Li’s lyrical and experimental collection transcends the individual, placing generations of family members and anonymous others together in a single moment that surpasses chronological time. Weaving through stories of people with little means, between wars and celebrations, over bridges and walls, and between trees and gardens, Li’s poems offer intimate perspectives on times that resonate with our own. The result is an unflinching meditation on family history, collective trauma, and imaginative recovery.
 
The Orange Tree is the recipient of the inaugural Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize for 2023.
 

PRODUCT DETAILS :

ISBN : 9780226826165
BY (AUTHOR) Li, Dong, FOREWORD BY Reddy, Srikanth
PUBLISHER : The University of Chicago Press	PUBLICATION DATE : March 31, 2023
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United States	IMPRINT : University of Chicago Press
LANGUAGE : English	AGE : General
PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback

DIMENSION : 241 mm x 165 mm
WEIGHT : 172 g
SERIES : Phoenix Poets
PRODUCT SAFETY : US CPSIA or other international hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary

PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies