TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hsing, Grace Hsieh
AU  - Shih, John.
TI  - To the flowers: a collection of poems 
AV  -  PL 2517  .T671 1980 
PY  - 1980///
CY  - [Place of publication not identified ]
PB  - [Publisher not identified]
KW  - Chinese poetry
KW  - sears
N1  - Chinese language on opposite pages
N2  -  done from Chinese to English, it is hign treason. For the two languages are worlds apart. Chinese characters are monosyllabic;  English words have varying number of syllables. Too, Chinese is tonal and this gives their prose and poems a musical dimension. It  is terser, and more concise than English, which is why the Chinese originals in this book are all much shorter than their translations. Grammatically, the two have also very little in common. Declensions and conjugations do not exist in Chinese. The same character can function as a noun, an adjective, an adverb or verb. But even in translation the poems of Grace Hsieh-Hsing are revelations. In her world, walking through a Revolving Door becomes a surrealistic experience. --From the introduction; Translation is trason
ER  -