Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees

Jan Wagner

• Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• eBook ISBN:
  9789882371637
• Year: 2019

This pocket-sized paperback is one of the thirtytitles published for 2019Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2019is "Speech and Silence". From 19–24November 2019, 30 invited poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong to read their works based on the theme "Speech and Silence." Included in the anthology and box set, these unique works are presented with Chinese and English translations in bilingual or trilingual formats.Poets include Ana Luísa Amaral (Portugal), Maxim Amelin (Russia), Renato Sandoval Bacigalupo (Peru), Jen Bervin (USA), Ana Blandiana (Romania), Tamim Al-Barghouti (Palestine), Abbas Beydoun (Lebanon), Mi?osz Biedrzycki (Poland), Derek Chung (Hong Kong), Louise Dupré (Canada), Forrest Gander (USA), Hwang Yu Won (South Korea), Maozi (PRC), Mathura (Estonia), Sergio Raimondi (Argentina), Ana Ristovi? (Serbia), K. Satchidanandan (India), Martin Solotruk (Slovakia), Aleš Šteger (Slovenia), Maria Stepanova (Russia), Tóth Krisztina (Hungary), Ijeoma Umebinyuo (Nigeria), Anastassis Vistonitis (Greece), Jan Wagner (Germany), Ernest Wichner (Germany), Yang Chia-Hsien (Taiwan), Yasuhiro Yotsumoto (Japan), Yu Youyou (PRC), Zheng Xiaoqiong (PRC), and Zhou Yunpeng (PRC).

Table of contents

• Full Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• mushrooms
• small town elegy
• störtebeker
• the west
• tea bag
• chameleon
• gecko
• histories: onesilos
• elegy for knievel
• seesaw
• spurge
• an essay on midges
• sheets
• in the well
• nail
• essay on soap
• self-portrait with a swarm of bees
• koalas
• a horse
• quinces