【水煮魚出版】Moving a Stone Selected Poems Yam Gong 搬石：飲江詩選

Selected as the featured book for the 2022 One City One Book Hong Kong

Hong Kong poet Yam Gong blends philosophy and everyday concerns in this debut collection in English, as he observes local life, family, aging, labor, and contemporary politics. The self-taught poet has worked as a laborer since adolescence and produced many of his poems during his work breaks. Using shifting tonal registers, he refashions borrowed language, including English song lyrics, Cantonese wordplay, Chinese folk stories and poems, news reports, prayers, and slang. Born in 1949, Yam Gong (pen name of Lau Yee-ching) is widely respected in both experimental and traditionalist circles in Hong Kong’s literary community.

Co-translators James Shea and Dorothy Tse both teach at Hong Kong Baptist University. Shea has published two volumes of poetry, and his translations have appeared in numerous publications. Tse is an award-winning Hong Kong writer and the co-founder of the literary journal, Fleur de Lettres. They received a 2020 NEA Literature Translation Fellowship to work on this project.

Moving a Stone
Yam Gong
Translated from the Chinese by James Shea and Dorothy Tse
Poetry
208 pages | Bilingual (Chinese/English)
ISBN 978-1-938890-87-1 (paper)

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