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Iron Moon: An Anthology of Chinese Worker Poetry Paperback – April 18, 2017

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“Iron Moon is a monumental achievement. It redraws the boundaries of working-class poetry for the new millennium by incorporating at its center issues like migration, globalization, and rank-and-file resistance. We hear in these poems what Zheng Xiaoqiong calls “a language of callouses.” This isn’t a book about the lost industrial past; it’s a fervent testimony to the horrific, hidden histories of the 21st century’s working-class and a clarion call for a more cooperative and humane future.”—Mark Nowak, author of Coal Mountain Elementary

Eleanor Goodman is a writer and translator. Her translation of work by Wang Xiaoni, Something Crosses My Mind, won the Lucien Stryk Translation Prize. Her first poetry collection is Nine Dragon Island.

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Eleanor Goodman: Eleanor Goodman is the award-winning translator of Something Crosses My Mind: Selected Poems by Wang Xiaoni, published in 2014. It won the Lucien Stryk Translation Prize and was shortlisted for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. Nine Dragon Island, is her first poetry collection.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ White Pine Press (April 18, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1945680032
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1945680038
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches

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Eleanor Goodman’s first book of translations, Something Crosses My Mind: Selected Poems of Wang Xiaoni (Zephyr Press, 2014) was the recipient of a 2013 PEN/Heim Translation Grant and winner of the 2015 Lucien Stryk Prize. The book was also shortlisted for the International Griffin Prize. Her first collection of poetry, Nine Dragon Island (Enclave/Zephyr, 2016), was a finalist for the Drunken Boat First Book Prize. The anthology Iron Moon, a translation of Chinese worker’s poetry, came out this past spring. She is a Research Associate at the Harvard University Fairbank Center and spent a year at Peking University on a Fulbright Fellowship.

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A Signficant Literary Contribution

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2020

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China has had an influential contribution to the world literature of poetry. Every Chinese epoch and dynasty has produced great poets. The Chinese tradition of writing poetry to express the depths and heights of human experience continues to the present day with this important collection of poems written by contemporary Chinese migrant workers.

We’re all aware of the factory-sweatshops in China that produce goods to sell on the global market. And we may be vaguely aware of lives spent at construction sites and in mines. But what is it like to live that life? What is it like to live far from home and loved ones, alone, day after day, doing the same thing for hours on end, often in dangerous conditions, until life transforms into a state lacking in hope and instead, becomes full of despair? These poems are what the editor, Qin Xiaoyu, calls a literature of trauma which addresses two themes: an alienated work life, and the misery of leaving loved ones and home for extended periods, sometimes forever.

Iron Moon is a significant contribution to the literature of China. Admiration and praise goes to the editor Qin Xiaoyu, to the translator Eleanor Goodman, and most especially, to the poets.

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2022

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I read about this book in a magazine article and tracked it down. It was worth the effort. These writers are amazing despite the challenges in their lives, and their writings gives the rest of us a real chance for perspective.

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joy and dreams of Chinese workers expressed in their poems ...

Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2017

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This anthology of the most private, raw anguish, joy and dreams of Chinese workers expressed in their poems is so heart-breaking to read. Some workers were writing poems as the only joy of their day, as they worked in an iron mine, dress shop, tec factory, and lived in a company barracks compound with no privacy year after year. The old parents, wives and children they were supporting and who were entirely dependent on these workers, often lived hundreds of miles away. The loneliness, sadness, resignation, sense of hopelessness these workers felt is like listening to them whisper, talk or scream to themselves.

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Liz

Beautiful and heartbreaking

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2017

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This book is best taken in small doses like most poetry books often have to. There's so much to digest in each poem, every one of them written on cell phones during worker's breaks or after they're done from 12 hours days of backbreaking and dangerous work. That they still found the time to compose such beautiful heartbreaking poetry is something only the soul can understand.

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For the Love of Books

We need more translations like this one -- works that have both literary and ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2017

We need more translations like this one -- works that have both literary and social relevance. A beautiful, ground-breaking examination of what it is to be a poet in China today.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2022

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Iron Moon: An Anthology of Chinese Worker Poetry

Finally got a copy. Delivery took ages but I don't care, this was so hard to find. Great book. Love it. Thanks.

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