One book review for "Breadth Breathe" by Sha Yan

Sha Yan's Breadth Breathe Sha Yan is a Chinese calligrapher, poet, writer, painter, and an antique collector. Breadth Breathe is his sixth collection. It is an anthology of 125 freestyle poems about religion, politics, economy, and the author's personal affairs and his situation in Canada. Its genre should have been drama and poetry instead of other fiction. The manuscript I received has no detail about its publisher and publication date. Everyone can relate to Sha Yan's experiences with women, his need for work and money, his love for rock and roll music, and his need to find a new milestone in life. There were instances where I felt empathy to the author. According to him, there came a time in his life when he sold his elegant watches because he did not have a job with a steady income. The author mentioned when he reached the age of forty-six, he was unmarried, divorced, and miserable. Through poetry, Sha Yan expresses his passion, love, misery, struggles, suggestions, and his opinion on political and economic matters. He freely shares his stories in narrative prose. His contemporary poems are relatable. Among the wide array of topics this book covers, it gives emphasis on cultural differences and assimilation. Both simplistic and idiomatic words were combined by the author in this literary piece. Here's one of the Chinese idioms he used: "the sea contains one hundred streams". My hunch was telling me that these poems could have a better cadence in the Chinese language. Poem titles: 1. Umbrella sky 2. I am living it 3. Front line 4. Kate and I, and the mesh 5. Peas and carrots 6. Some winning spirits 7. Frenzy snow 8. Stay away, you minster 9. Insanity hoof 10. Wilson Drive 11. DOC file 12. Social bipolar and racism 13. Word is word, line is line 14. Pretentious clay 15. Crocodile tears 16. Old stokes, old geek and old fool 17. Threatening and anti-threatening 18. Fish sculpt 19. Raison bread 20. Fresh mind 21. Desert of desert 22. Lost spirit for the least sunshine 23. Line and line 24. First base is my base 25. Fabricate an intelligent and decent asian spy 26. Common goal 27. Movies and whines 28. Close to twenty-six years of jeopardy 29. Love is not everything 30. Light 31. Slant 32. Desperation as love 33. China blue 34. Keys to win 35. Old man's lie 36. Fade away, the moon and the swing 37. Eight point mark 38. Flawless 39. Lovely child 40. Loathe 41. Fragrant love 42. Delinquently blue 43. Love is a diary 44. Wishful mind 45. Behind the curtain door 46. Diamond merit 47. Cray fish 48. Breadth breathe 49. Imminent glow 50. Pantheon tree 51. Nurture 52. Cold mesh 53. Unnamed love 54. Light bulbs 55. My once elegant watches 56. Salted fish flips over 57. White cat, black cat 58. The mesh 59. I need 60. I do 61. Secret love 62. Silent night was not silent 63. Close to twenty-six years of jeopardy 64. Forty million dollar Chinese painting 65. Peace and harmony 66. The dark night tonight 67. Blue, cheese blue 68. Absurd and the vein 69. When it rained 70. Lost spirit for the least sunshine 71. Sanity proof 72. Love it, to be understood 73. Humility is not fame 74. Tomorrow is still tomorrow 75. Entail 76. Poise 77. End of the end 78. The sea contains one hundred astreams 79. Extrapolation 80. Resonance 81. New torture 82. Individual win 83. No money, no money 84. Testify 85. Inspiration 86. Poetry, music and cigarettes 87. Defeat 88. Unforgettable 89. Whilst useful 90. Life 91. Fur 92. Love as sweet poison 93. Communication gap 94. Peaceful mind 95. History professor 96. Individualism 97. Mock well, tough Spell 98. Unworthy 99. After glow 100. Like a fish 101. Don’ t undermine 102. Ignorance 103. Wrong aspects 104. Integrity 105. Seriousness 106. Believe me, I sing 107. Hard believes 108. Moral standard 109. Little Mary 110. Burning letters 111. That part of me 112. Goodies, booties 113. Buy love some money 114. Killing innocence 115. Fire burst 116. Inner sphere 117. Yet you are powerful 118. Play 119. Simple proposition 120. Dreary reverie 121. Music and beer 122. White tote 123. Stopping thunder 124. With black Jesus’s name 125. Said yes The ending was about Sha Yan's proposition to stop jeopardizing the owners and dealers of antique porcelain. May the Chinese community there in Canada and across North America be free from sufferings and too much struggle.

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