Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems (New Directions Paperbook)
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (885 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0811219879 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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His numerous prizes include the Modern Chinese Poetry Award (1994), the national Lu Xun Prize for Literature (2001), and the Zhuang Zhongwen Prize for Literature (2003).Lucas Klein is a writer, translator, and editor of Cipher-Journal. He currently teaches classical Chinese literature at the Central Academy for Fine Arts. . He is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese, Translation, and Linguistics at the
Eric Miller said Highly recommended. The translations are beautiful poems in their own right.. Highly recommended. Worth reading and re-reading. Most importantly, the English translations of Xi Chuan's poems are fine poems in their own right. Translating Chinese to English is not a straight-forward task, and as someone who can read a bit of Chinese, I appreciate the quality of the translation here, which
He re-emerged transformed: he began writing meditative, expansive prose poems that dismantled the aestheticism and musicality of his previous self. Divided into two sections that hinge around this formal break, Notes on the Mosquito offers the greatest hits of a deeply engaging poet, whose work intertwines the mountains and roads of Xinjiang with insects and mythical beasts, ghosts and sacred spirits with chess and a Sanskrit inscription.. Notes on the Mosquito introduces English readers to one of the most revered poets of contemporary China. After the crushing failure of Tiananmen Square and the death of two of his closest friends, he stopped writing for three years. Gaining recognition as a post-Misty poet in the late ’80s, Xi Chuan was famous for his condensed, numinous lyricism, and for radiating classical Chinese influences as much as Western modernist traditions. The internationally renowned Chinese poet’s first collection to appear in English. “In the crevices of history, mosquitoes are everywhere,” Xi Chuan writes
" . "What unites Chuan's lyric poems and his essay-poems is that they all carry a sense of the world's plentitude and of the world's puzzlement. In 1988, when he was twenty-five, Xi Chuan and some friends launched an unofficial literary journal, Tendency. The plentitude itself is bewildering and the bewilderment has a certain beauty. At the time, he was translating Ezra Pound and Tomas Transtromer, Czeslaw Milosz and Jorge Luis Borges, and his own writing suggests a corresponding sophistication and aesthetic range. --Robert Hass"Xi Chuan is one of the most influential poets in contemporar