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Raking the hollow bones

Title
Raking the hollow bones / Bryan Tso Jones.
Author
Jones, Brian Tso.
Publication
Brownsville, Or. : Fairweather Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Description
ix, 89 pages; 23 cm
Note
  • "Winner of the 2007 Rhea & Seymour Gorsline poetry competition"--Cover.
Contents
Prelude: Zhang Xian and the Boy with the Gold Key -- I. Jia (Family) -- The Boy Recalls a Man on the Highway -- Sichuan Pork -- Stone Chop -- Rice at Hong Kong Palace -- Taylor Street, 1906 -- The Boy Notices What He Didn't Want to See -- Rituals on the Day of Po Po's Funeral -- On Qing Ming, When the Boy Cannot Visit His Grandmother's Ashes -- II. Gui/Shen (Ghosts) -- Zhang Xian Points Out Family Ghosts -- The Pearl -- The Nightingale to the Emperor -- Vladimir Horowitz's Ghost Explains How Chopin's Music Works -- The Old Duelist Contemplates -- The Boy Dreams of Ravens and Odin -- Ganges Ma Speaks to Her Daughters -- Empress Wu Zetian Visits Shang Lin Park -- The Fading, a Talk-Story by Zhang Xian -- III. YI (Righteousness) -- In the Year of the Rooster, the Boy Writes to His Uncles -- The Scientist's Notebook -- The Lesson from the Boy's Mother -- Letter to a Young Man after a Party -- Krampus -- Eye -- The Marketplace, after a Photograph from the Qing Dynasty -- In the Judge's Audience Chamber, the Boy Wonders -- IV. Wen (Culture) -- Zhang Xian Attends a Glove Puppet Opera -- Study Cooking -- Peppercorn -- Romanization -- The Kitchen God's Lament -- The Loneliness of Li Po -- Gong Gong, a Portrait in Chinese Characters -- Mowing -- Raking the Hollow Bones -- V. Ren (Humanity) -- The Gold Key -- The Runner -- Turtle Shells -- Cheapskate's Fish Swimming in the Gutter -- Ents -- Chinese School at Grace Lutheran Church -- Laughing Buddha -- Looking at the Bamboo in My House -- Night Geese -- Coda: The Old Children.
ISBN
  • 9780977197392
  • 0977197395
LCCN
2008934427
OCLC
  • ocn226361860
  • 226361860
  • SCSB-5457462
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Columbia University Libraries