{"product_id":"phoenix-paperback","title":"Phoenix - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBing Xu\u003c\/b\u003e (Artist), \u003cb\u003eOuyang Jianghe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAustin Woerner\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhoenix\u003c\/i\u003e is a bilingual edition of a poem commissioned by Xu Bing's studio to accompany his installation--\u003ci\u003ePhoenix\u003c\/i\u003e. Xu Bing spent two years creating this work, which features two monumental birds fabricated entirely from materials harvested from construction sites in urban China, including demolition debris, steel beams, tools, and remnants of daily lives. The \u003ci\u003ePhoenix\u003c\/i\u003e will move to New York City after its current run at MASS MoCA. This edition includes over two dozen color photographs of the \u003ci\u003ePhoenix\u003c\/i\u003e interspersed between the long poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOuyang Jianghe\u003c\/b\u003e is one of mainland China's most established poets. Zephyr published his first book in English translation, \u003ci\u003eDoubled Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eXu Bing: Perhaps the best known contemporary Chinese artist, Xu Bing serves as the vice-president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. He is most known for his printmaking skills and installations, as well as his creative artistic use of language. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOuyang Jianghe: Critics consider Ouyang Jianghe's poetry some of the most challenging avant-garde verse written in China over the past few decades; his poems, which have the intricate, sculpted quality of fugues, are concerned with dissecting the layers of meaning which underlie everyday objects and notions like \"doubled shadows.\" He is a prominent art critic and chief editor of the literary magazine Jintian; he lives in Beijing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAustin Woerner: a Chinese-English literary translator; his current projects include a collection of poetry, Doubled Shadows, by Ouyang Jianghe, and a novel, Witching Vale, by the exile writer Su Wei. He graduated from Yale University in 2008 with a BA in East Asian Studies. In September 2009 he took part in a joint residency with Ouyang at the Vermont Studio Center, where they were the first writer-translator pair in the Literature in Translation Program.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 62\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 6.9 x 9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 17, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700478382143,"sku":"9781938890048","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/99921dcb9c9c0ece4cf5cd579bdd46a0.webp?v=1765016908","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/phoenix-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}