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15 Chinese Silences

Timothy Yu

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Description:Timothy Yu writes: “These poems are part of an ongoing project called 100 Chinese Silences. They were begun in response to Billy Collins’s poem ‘Grave.’ The speaker of the poem describes the ‘one hundred kinds of silence / according to the Chinese belief,’ but then admits at the end of the poem that these Chinese silences were something he had ‘just made up.’ I took it upon myself to write these 100 Chinese silences.” Yu inhabits Collins’s poems, reversing their fields, creating witty counter-poems to those of Collins, who frequently alludes very loosely (indeed) to Chinese culture. Here is wit as critique, satire as antidote to the mischief that is found in many contemporary poems (as in media responses to Jeremy Lin).from “Chinese Silence No. 6, after Billy Collins, ‘Despair’“:I wonder what my ancient Chinese predecessorswould make of all this,these engineers and monkish masters?Today, I hear your tinny voice blaring from the rooftopsin praise of my reticence, and my thoughts turnto my honorable ancestors:Fuk Yu, who gnashed Pacific railsbetween his eloquent teeth,and his great-grandson, glaring out from the Middle West,Yu No-Hu.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 15 Chinese Silences. To get started finding 15 Chinese Silences, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Timothy Yu writes: “These poems are part of an ongoing project called 100 Chinese Silences. They were begun in response to Billy Collins’s poem ‘Grave.’ The speaker of the poem describes the ‘one hundred kinds of silence / according to the Chinese belief,’ but then admits at the end of the poem that these Chinese silences were something he had ‘just made up.’ I took it upon myself to write these 100 Chinese silences.” Yu inhabits Collins’s poems, reversing their fields, creating witty counter-poems to those of Collins, who frequently alludes very loosely (indeed) to Chinese culture. Here is wit as critique, satire as antidote to the mischief that is found in many contemporary poems (as in media responses to Jeremy Lin).from “Chinese Silence No. 6, after Billy Collins, ‘Despair’“:I wonder what my ancient Chinese predecessorswould make of all this,these engineers and monkish masters?Today, I hear your tinny voice blaring from the rooftopsin praise of my reticence, and my thoughts turnto my honorable ancestors:Fuk Yu, who gnashed Pacific railsbetween his eloquent teeth,and his great-grandson, glaring out from the Middle West,Yu No-Hu.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 15 Chinese Silences. To get started finding 15 Chinese Silences, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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