{"product_id":"the-ruins-hui-ye-9781646054053","title":"The Ruins: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA collection of beautifully resonant metaphysical poems from a singular voice in contemporary Chinese poetry. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere's a witch poet walking backward into the future. There's an architect dispelling illusions and inviting us into communal living. The poems collected in \u003cem\u003eThe Ruins\u003c\/em\u003e rise from a primordial wisdom that resists the quarrels of the marketplace, that keeps company under a leaky authoritarian roof and rubs off its burn, that carves out its own impossible freedom. In Dong Li's luminous translation of Ye's first full-length collection, each poem braids myth and mystery, inviting the reader into a liminal space where \"echoes of the ancient, the imagined, and the 'now' sound off each other\" on the page \u003cem\u003e(The Cincinnati Review)\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hui Ye\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1646054059\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646054053\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Phoneme Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Hui Ye","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47071976390911,"sku":"9781646054053","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c66d9c27-0d18-489d-921e-be2067af0a07.jpg?v=1753415446","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-ruins-hui-ye-9781646054053","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}