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ISBN-10: 1556595905
ISBN-13: 9781556595905
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publish Date: 09/22/2020
Dimensions: 8.75" L, 11.30" W, 0.60" H

Disappearing Ox

Translated byLewis Hyde
Illustrator: Max Gimblett

Hardcover

Price: $28.00

Overview

MacArthur Fellow Lewis Hyde and painter Max Gimblett collaborate to create a modern American version of the twelfth-century Chinese “Oxherding Series.” As Lewis Hyde writes, “There are ten drawings, the first of which shows a young herder who has lost the ox he is supposed to be tending. In subsequent images he finds the ox’s tracks, sees the beast itself, tames it, and rides it home. In the seventh drawing the ox disappears…it was a metaphor for something, not to be mistaken for the thing itself.” In dialogue with Gimblett’s paintings and the Chinese text, Hyde’s revolutionary approach provides three different English-language versions to the same poem: a one-word response, a second version that adds just enough for complete sentences, and the third adds poetic embellishment. Combining Chinese text, visual art, and multiple English translations, The Disappearing Ox, is a fluid, multilayered reading experience.

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Details

ISBN-10: 1556595905
ISBN-13: 9781556595905
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publish Date: 09/22/2020
Dimensions: 8.75" L, 11.30" W, 0.60" H
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