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Stitching Porcelain : After Matteo Ricci in Sixteenth-Century China by Deborah Larsen is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Stitching Porcelain , Deborah Larsen's first book of poetry, is a narrative-lyric sequence based on the life of Matteo Ricci, the resourceful Jesuit who entered China in 1583 and stayed for a quarter century. Pondering cultural accommodation as well as faith, many of the poems center on actual Ricci's dressing as a Buddhist; his awe-inspiring map (with China shrewdly centered); his prostration before an empty Dragon Throne. Other events the poet imagined. (In the title room, Ricci addresses a love lyric to "Your porcelain is so fine, so thin,/a brass wire can repair it . . . /Once I saw you beneath the bamboo/ . . . bent back/from the world, stitching porcelain.") With a felicity rare in a debut volume, Larsen's opalescent poetry works in perfect counterpoint to the strange and brilliant Ricci.

Author

Deborah Larsen

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811211611

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities