Dong Li
The Orange Tree
The Orange Tree
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The Orange Tree is a debut collection of poems by Dong Lis that explores Chinese history through the experiences of one family,using invented words and calligraphy to connect stories across generations and time. The collection won the Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize for 2023.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 88 pages
Publication date: 31 March 2023
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Debut collection of poems that weaves stories of family history, war, and migration. Â
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Dong Li’s The Orange Tree is a collection of narrative poems that braids forgotten legends, personal sorrows, and political upheavals into a cinematic account of Chinese history as experienced by one family. Amid chaos and catastrophe, the child narrator examines a yellowed family photo to find resemblances and learns a new language, inventing compound words to conjure and connect family stories. These invented words and the calligraphy of untranslated Chinese characters appear in lists separating the book’s narrative sections.
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Li’s lyrical and experimental collection transcends the individual, placing generations of family members and anonymous others together in a single moment that surpasses chronological time. Weaving through stories of people with little means, between wars and celebrations, over bridges and walls, and between trees and gardens, Li’s poems offer intimate perspectives on times that resonate with our own. The result is an unflinching meditation on family history, collective trauma, and imaginative recovery.
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The Orange Tree is the recipient of the inaugural Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize for 2023.
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Weight: 174g
Dimension: 166 x 241 x 9 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780226826165
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