The Terracotta Army

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In 1985, Gary Geddes won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Americas Region, for The Terracotta Army, a brilliant sequence of his Chinese sonnets. The nine-couplet poems were inspired by his 1981 visit to the archaeological site in China where more than 8,000 individually sculpted, life-sized soldiers and horses were interred in the third century to accompany Emperor Ch&#146in Shi Huang Di into the afterlife. In this ideologically charged volume, Geddes gives voice to a few soldiers, who engage in myriad debates ...
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In 1985, Gary Geddes won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Americas Region, for The Terracotta Army, a brilliant sequence of his Chinese sonnets. The nine-couplet poems were inspired by his 1981 visit to the archaeological site in China where more than 8,000 individually sculpted, life-sized soldiers and horses were interred in the third century to accompany Emperor Ch&#146in Shi Huang Di into the afterlife. In this ideologically charged volume, Geddes gives voice to a few soldiers, who engage in myriad debates about the abuse of power, the yin-yang dance of narrative and silence, and the sanctity of the idiosyncratic self in the face of conformity. This new edition of The Terracotta Army, published to coincide with the Canadian tour of The Warrior Emperor and China&#146s Terracotta Army, opening at the ROM in late June 2010, pairs Geddes’ poems with photographs of the terracotta soldiers.
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&#147One of Canada&#146s finest writers of epic and extended narrative poetry. The Terracotta Army is a brilliant example of his remarkable ability.” — Patrick Lane
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780864926340
  • Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
  • Publication date: 7/30/2010
  • Edition description: First edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 64
  • Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 7.80 (h) x 0.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Gary Geddes is one of Canada&#146s finest political poets. He has written and edited more than 35 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, criticism, and translation, including his celebrated travel memoir, The Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things. His literary awards, too numerous to mention, include the E.J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry, the National Poetry Prize, the Gabriela Mistral Prize, and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Americas Region. Gary Geddes has lectured and performed his work in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. His work has been translated into six languages.
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