Verses On Bird Author:Zhang Er Poetry. Translation. Asian Studies. Major sequence translated from the Chinese by the author with well-known younger writer, Eleni Sikenianos. VERSES ON BIRD, to borrow Pound's phrase is "a coherent splendor": "Where can we find enough names to name all these things in front of our eyes?/ Or enough adjectives to modify all these adjectives?... more »/ Even after the shower has stripped the last bit of pink off the peonies/ There are still these unknown long and tiny pale violet downward curving bell-shaped clusters/ Held up by those wide and humble striped sheaves,/ Remnants of a pillar cup, cracked cement, collapsed basketball net hanging mid-air." Perfectbound chapbook. Also available as part of an 8 book set.« less