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The Ruins: Poems

The Ruins: Poems

Ye, Hui
Li, Dong

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1646054059
ISBN13: 9781646054053
Publisher: Phoneme Media
Published: Nov 11 2025
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A collection of beautifully resonant metaphysical poems from a singular voice in contemporary Chinese poetry.


Here's a witch poet walking backward into the future. There's an architect dispelling illusions and inviting us into communal living. The poems collected in The Ruins rise from a primordial wisdom that resists the quarrels of the marketplace, that keeps company under a leaky authoritarian roof and rubs off its burn, that carves out its own impossible freedom. In Dong Li's luminous translation of Ye's first full-length collection, each poem braids myth and mystery, inviting the reader into a liminal space where echoes of the ancient, the imagined, and the 'now' sound off each other on the page (The Cincinnati Review).

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