The Terracotta Army

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9780864928160

<p>In 1985, Gary Geddes won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Americas Region, for <i>The Terracotta Army</i>, 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&#39;in Shi Huang Di into the afterlife.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>This new edition of <i>The Terracotta Army</i>, published to coincide with the Canadian tour of <i>The Warrior Emperor and China&#39;s Terracotta Army</i>, opening at the ROM in late June 2010, pairs Geddes&#39; poems with photographs of the terracotta soldiers.</p>