In this unique art book, fine art photographer Jonas Yip and renowned poet and scholar Wai-lim Yip engage in a dialogue about Paris, pairing expressive, atmospheric photographs with evocative poems. Like two Bauderlairean flâneurs walking around Paris who cannot let go of the memories that flow silently from the city's buildings, parks, and relics, the authors travel through time and dreams seeking a forgotten history among the trembling light and shadows. The book features over 80 richly toned black-and-white photographs, which Professor Leo Ou-Fan Lee in his introduction calls "shadowy landscapes ... dreamscapes [that] seduce us and arouse strange sensations." The poetry, along with all auxiliary text, is presented in both English and Chinese, translated by Wai-lim Yip. Noted poet and anthologist Jerome Rothenberg calls this book "the best presentation so far of [Wai-lim Yip's] poetry in English." Lovers of poetry, photography or even just the city of Paris will find themselves engrossed by the layered voices and meanings that emerge from this fine collection.
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Jonas Yip is a fine art photographer based in the Los Angeles area. His work has won numerous awards and has been exhibited internationally. More information and news is available on his website, jonasyip.com.
Wai-lim Yip has been active for over 45 years as a bicultural poet, translator, critic and theorist with special contribution to East-West comparative literature, aesthetics, and comparative poetics between China and America. He is the author of Pound s Cathay and Chinese Poetry: Major Modes and Genres (University of California Press). In recent years he has been celebrated in China with exhibitions devoted to his archives and conferences devoted to his poetry, as well as publication of his Complete (Chinese) Works in nine thick volumes.
Leo Ou-fan Lee is Professor Emeritus of Chinese Literature at Harvard University and Professor of Humanities at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Shanghai Modern and other works on modern Chinese literature and culture in both English and Chinese.
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Texture of Paris in warm tones,
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This book is something like a ode to soft and gentle, about 190 pages with 80 beautiful Paris shots by photographer Jonas Yip, mixed with the poetry of Wai-Lim Yip.
The images are delicate and lovely, the sepia tone just right. I don't read Chinese so Im kind of lost on about half of the poetry, but the English version of the poetry is great. To me this is a beautiful book, I'm pouring myself a glass of port and putting on some classical music for this one. I gave the book "only" 4 stars because I would love to see Jonas Yip's images much bigger, and maybe with a finer screen, the images are so delicate that the screen in a few cases interfere ever so slightly, but then I am really picky when it comes to art printing. Highly Recommended - This is a book I will keep.!
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