Pulling a Dragon's Teeth
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In layers of memory and language, Shao Wei's poems reveal a world imbued with the dreamlike quality of a fairytale. This collection constitutes a journey -- first full of a little girl's questions and small passions, then the longings and losses of brave adulthood in a strange land -- that leads us from a town along the shores of the Yangtze River to the busy streets of New York City.Publishers WeeklySet mostly in the China of the recent past, Shao Wei's Pulling a Dragon's Teeth tells the story of a girl's childhood and coming of age, from playing with a folded handkerchief mouse and "my first apple by the Yangtze River" to decrying a "Sunflower Bitch" ("you see how deep how dark how marvelous and amazing/ if you call your name again and again") and allowing that "[i]t is my turn to be quiet/ when you enter me slowly." Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
1My steps come back and forth on a piece of spongeA Fairy Tale3First Death4Ten Combs6Rice Container8Rock Holes10A One-Yuan Fairy-Tale Book11Tao Hua and Rooster12Rotten Apple13Cutting Pumpkins142My finger and I try to criticize each otherEnglish + Chinese17A Small Finger18The Life Trip of a Plastic Heart19Farm Chicken20Fish Above22Potato23Square Cauldron24Manhattan, a Small Matchbox25Thinking behind Thinking26Pain27Punctuation28Wrong Dance30Niagara Falls in Winter31A Face on the Cafe Window32Spirit of Butterflies in Two Parts333How could you leave without saying goodbyeReciting the Tang Dynasty Poetry37Mr. Shao Kang Ning38Innocent Mother40"Fascist" Aunt42I Wear My Mother's New Coat44The Father46The Absent Goodbye48Dear Death504Brother, can I call you brotherMaking Love55Horse Riding56Sunflower Bitch57A Way to Love59Chasing in the Wind60Mountain, River, and Unfinished Flowers62Acknowledgments67
