Review of February’s Rose by Wang Hongqi
Review of February’s Rose by Wang Hongqi Translated by Joseph Spring/史潘荣译 Reading Bing Hua’s poetry collection February’s Rose, I am overwhelmed by an emotional outflow derived from the deep experience of the value of spiritual existence of women. While I have no idea why the translator and the editor have taken trouble to collect 100 poems in a book in such an order, I discover, after reading them as arranged, that Bing Hua’s poems, in relation with a unique landscape reflected herein by the state of mind, artistic conception, imagery, lyrical expressions, questioning, interpretation and reasoning, involve the combination of the poetical life and idealized love of a woman living as a new immigrant in the States, as well as the spiritual representation of her “sympathy and empathy” with all things in the natural world at both macro and micro levels, thus forming a historic portrait of women’s lives. In particular, her ingenious structuring of and philosophical thinking about the mem...