Of Flesh & Spirit [Paperback]

Wang Ping (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1998

Life interpreted, written, and emulated in the style of the Tao, spiced with experiences of NYC.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Born In The Year Of Chicken
Crossing Essex
Female Marriage
Flag Signal
Flash Of Selfish Consciousness
Haiku Trio: A Flash Of Thought From The River
Haiku Trio: Blessing
Haiku Trio: First Love
In Touch With America
Mirror Images
Need For Uncertainty
No Sense Of Direction
Of Flesh And Spirit
Punctural Arrival
Resurrection
She Is That Reed
Song Of Calling Souls
Sounds Of Angels
Sparks
Splintered Eye
Summer Rain
Syntax
These Images
This Land
Transference
Ultimate Passage
Unnamed
What Are You Still Angry About
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

Wang Ping was born in Shanghai and grew up on a small island in the East China Sea. After three years spent farming in a mountain village commune, she attended Beijing University. In 1985 she left China to study in the United States, earning her PhD from New York University. She is the acclaimed author of the short story collection American Visa, the novel Foreign Devil, two poetry collections: Of Flesh & Spirit and The Magic Whip, and the cultural study Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China.

Product Details

• Paperback: 104 pages
• Publisher: Coffee House Press; First edition. edition (April 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566890683
• ISBN-13: 978-1566890687
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #835,741 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A reading in Minneapolis, April 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Of Flesh & Spirit (Paperback)

I have returned from a reading by Wang Ping (along with George Kalamaras) and I was highly impressed by her work. As a woman, I find that I can identify with her words of womanhood and restriction. I look forward to delving into her world of prose, although she gives a taste of it in this collection by means of prose-poems.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite book of poetry, April 17, 2007

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Kathleen Grigg "andalucia" (midwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Of Flesh & Spirit (Paperback)

I first picked up Of Flesh and Spirit at a used bookstore in South Dakota when I was 15 years old. I read it, and liked much of it, but didn't really get it.

Then, last summer (at age 19), I got it off the shelf to read, and an entirely new world unfolded.

My favorite quote, which I remind myself of all the time, is from "Splintered Eye" on page46.

Real pain is unspeakable.
If it can be described or talked about,
it's no longer real.