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BOX KITE BOX KITE PROSE POEMS BY BAZIJU ROO BORSON & KIM MALTMAN Copyright © 2016 Roo Borson and Kim Maltman Published in Canada in 2016 and in the USA in 2016 by House of Anansi Press Inc. www.houseofanansi.com All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Baziju, author Box kite : prose poems / by Baziju (Roo Borson & Kim Maltman). Issued in print and electronic formats. isbn 978-1-77089-964-3 (bound).—isbn 978-1-77089-962-9 (paperback).— isbn 978-1-77089-963-6 (pdf) I.Title. ps8603.a962b69 2016 c811’.6 c2015-907817-2 c2015-907818-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015957631 Cover image: Baziju Cover design: Alysia Shewchuk Text design and typesetting: Marijke Friesen We acknowledge for their financial support of our publishing program the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund. Having seen a kite, they all sent servants off to get their own kites. When the kites were up and had reached the end of their strings, they cut the strings, setting them loose. The loosed kites then disappeared, taking the bad luck of their owners with them. — Loose adaptation of an incident occurring during the Poetry Club meeting in Chapter 70 of Honglou Meng (The Story of the Stone in David Hawkes’s translation) Eternal verities are always present and easily acquired; in greater jeopardy are those fragile details that make up the palpable past. — Stephen Owen Tengluo: Wisteria / 3 The SnowN Cabbages of Harbin / 7 Summer Day in the Mountains / 9 Xishi Doufu / 16 Jiufen: Nine Pieces / 21 Ba Gua: The Eight Trigrams / 23 The Garden of the Master of Nets / 29 The Bagel Paradise / 41 Harbord Street / 46 Liquidambar: Adelaide Hills / 49 Songshu / 57 Yuanfen / 61 My Friend Liu / 64 Yuanming Yuan: The Garden of Perfect Brightness / 66 Acrobats: Shanghai 1990 / 70 Overflowing Luck / 72 Yard / 81 Guanyin / 83 Lu Xun’s Desk / 86 The Scholar of the Garden / 112 Box Kite / 125 Shanghai / 129 A Note in NClosing / 155 Acknowledgements / 161 Box Kite
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