{"product_id":"flash-cards","title":"Flash Cards","description":"\u003cp\u003eFlash Cards is a primer of modern Chinese life, constructing a complex philosophical vision from swatches of daily events and observations. As Yu Jian has written about his own “It is possible to see eternity—to see everything—in a teacup or a sweet wrapper. Everything in the world is poetry.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn eighteen-year-old college girl\u003cbr\u003ewalks to class on a spring morning\u003cbr\u003erosy cheeks long legs\u003cbr\u003einside a wool skirt\u003cbr\u003eonly a small wild part revealed\u003cbr\u003ebeautiful girl chest held high\u003cbr\u003ea cup of tea between her hands\u003cbr\u003ea book beneath her elbow\u003cbr\u003ecrossing the flower garden\u003cbr\u003elooking straight ahead\u003cbr\u003eshe is rushing to catch\u003cbr\u003ea philosophy class\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYu Jian , born in 1954 in Kunming, China, is a poet, author, and documentary film director. He began writing poetry in the early 1970s, influenced both by classical Chinese poetry and modern Western writers such as Walt Whitman. Yu Jian is a major figure among the \"Third Generation Poets” who came after the “Misty Poetry” movement of the early 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWang Ping’s books include two collections of poetry, The Magic Whip and Of Flesh \u0026amp; Spirit , and the cultural study Aching for Footbinding in China . Her novel The Last Communist Virgin was winner of the 2008 Minnesota Book Award in the category of Novel \u0026amp; Short Story and the 2007 Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies in the category of Poetry\/Prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRon Padgett ’s translations include Blaise Cendrars' Complete Poems , Guillaume Apollinaire's Poet Assassinated , and, with Bill Zavatsky, Valery Larbaud's Poems of A. O. Barnabooth . A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Padgett was named officer in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ping \u0026 Padgett Jian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46673396629673,"sku":"9789629964719","price":14.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/images_0841f66b-65a0-4e8c-a477-95525da37464.jpg?v=1765511874","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/flash-cards","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}