A Feast of Lanterns
A Multi-Voice Anthology of Light, Festivity, Cultural Memory, and Communal ImaginationBy Various
Length1h 47m
About this audiobook
A Feast of Lanterns presents literature as a many-flamed gathering: an anthology in which differing voices, temperaments, and imaginative perspectives illuminate one another. Its central lantern image suggests the book's governing movement from darkness toward perception, while the variety of its contributions creates a deliberately plural literary texture—lyrical, reflective, narrative, and occasionally folkloric. Rather than imposing a single authorial doctrine, the volume belongs to the anthology tradition, inviting readers to compare styles and recognize how recurring human concerns acquire new meanings in different voices. Its title also evokes communal celebration, ritual memory, and the symbolic power of light, placing the collection within a broad literary context of seasonal observance, cultural exchange, and moral or emotional illumination. The attribution to "Various" is itself significant. The book is shaped not by one biography but by an editorial impulse to gather, preserve, and juxtapose distinct acts of imagination. Such a project may arise from the desire to make literature communal: to give established and lesser-known voices a shared platform and to demonstrate that no single perspective can exhaust the experiences represented here. The result reflects the anthology-maker's faith in multiplicity, correspondence, and the durability of stories and poems when brought into conversation. Readers interested in literary anthologies, symbolic imagery, and cross-cultural or communal forms of expression will find A Feast of Lanterns especially rewarding. It is best approached slowly, allowing each contribution to cast its own light while observing the larger pattern formed by the collection as a whole.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.9 (39)
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GenrePoetry
Length1 hr 47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 24, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Cathay
26IN EXILE
2INTRODUCTION
27THE GHOST-ROAD
3Moon
28SAILING ACROSS LAKE MEI-PEI
4Flowers
29CH‘ANG CH‘IEN: THE TOMB OF CHAO-CHÜN
5Dragons
30TS‘UI HAO: BOATING SONG OF THE YO EH
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6Sources Of Inspiration
31HAN YÜ: DISAPPOINTMENT
7Chinese Verse Form
32PO CHÜ-I
8Epochs In Chinese Poetry
33IN YUNG-YANG
9Conclusion
34RAIN AT DAWN
10LINES FROM THE TOMB OF AN UNKNOWN WOMAN
35MYSELF
11A WORD FROM THE WIND
36MORNING STUDIES
12WANG PO: A KING OF TANG
37THE LITTLE CROW
13WANG WEI: WHILE ROSES FALL
38AT FORTY-ONE
14LI PO
39A NIGHT ON LAKE T‘AI
15ALONG THE STREAM
40OU-YANG HSIU
16THE PALACE OF CHAO-YANG
41RETURN
17THE TWO VISITS
42THE PAVILION OF ABOUNDING JOY
18Visit to the Cold Clear Spring
43WILD GEESE
19Visit to the White Stream Rapids
44BELL HILL
20SPRING RHAPSODIES
45SONGS OF THE NIGHT
21I. Delight
46I
22II. Sadness
47II
23III. Sorrow
48III
24BRIGHT AUTUMNTIDE
49WANG AN-SHIH: AT THE PARTING WAYS
25TU FU
50SU TUNG-P‘O
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