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Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees

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Jan Wagner
2019
Published by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
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This pocket-sized paperback is one of the thirty titles published for 2019 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2019 is Speech and Silence. From 19–24 November 2019, 30 invited poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong to read their works based on the theme Speech and Silence. Included in the anthology and box set, these unique works are presented with Chinese and English translations in bilingual or trilingual formats.

Table of Contents

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Title Page, Copyright

pp. 1-4

Contents

pp. 5-9

mushrooms

pp. 10-12

small town elegy

pp. 13-15

störtebeker

pp. 16-19

the west

pp. 20-25

tea bag

pp. 26-28

chameleon

pp. 29-31

gecko

pp. 32-34

histories: onesilos

pp. 35-40

elegy for knievel

pp. 41-46

seesaw

pp. 47-49

spurge

pp. 50-52

an essay on midges

pp. 53-57

sheets

pp. 58-63

in the well

pp. 64-69

nail

pp. 70-72

essay on soap

pp. 73-75

self-portrait with a swarm of bees

pp. 76-78

koalas

pp. 79-84

a horse

pp. 85-93

quinces

pp. 94-99

About the Author

pp. 100-102
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