Shangyang Fang

Burying the Mountain

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In Shangyang Fang’s debut Burying the Mountain, longing and loss rush through a portal of difficult beauty. Absence is translated into fire ants and snow, a boy’s desire is transfigured into the indifference of mountains and rivers, and loneliness finds its place in the wounded openness of language. From the surface of a Song Dynasty ink-wash painting to a makeshift bedroom in Chengdu, these poems thread intimacy, eros, and grief. Evoking the music of ancient Chinese poetry, Fang alloys political erasure, exile, remembrance, and death into a single brushstroke on the silk scroll, where names are forgotten as paper boats on water.
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62 printed pages
Original publication
2021
Publication year
2021
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Quotes

  • Nicté Toxquihas quoted3 years ago
    I returned to China in the summer and found

    summer didn’t belong there.
  • Nicté Toxquihas quoted3 years ago
    Paul Celan wasn’t necessarily the saddest person

    in history. Trakl could have been sadder, though his sadness was personal.

    The personal is unbearable.

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