Steve Bradbury at the University of Oklahoma’s Chinese Literature Translation Archive, talking about contemporary poetry from Taiwan in the context of its visual culture. Specific mention of Hsia Yü 夏宇, Hung Hung 鴻鴻, Shang Qin 商禽, Ye Mimi 葉覓覓, and Amang 阿芒.
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Sky Lanterns: Poetry from China, Formosa, and Beyond
The new issue of Mānoa is available, edited by Frank Stewart with Fiona Sze-Lorrain:
Sky Lanterns brings together innovative work by authors—primarily poets—in mainland China, Taiwan, the United States, and beyond who are engaged in truth-seeking, resistance, and renewal. Appearing in new translations, many of the works are published alongside the original Chinese text. A number of the poets are women, whose work is relatively unknown to English-language readers. Contributors include Amang, Bai Hua, Bei Dao, Chen Yuhong, Duo Yu, Hai Zi, Lan Lan, Karen An-hwei Lee, Li Shangyin, Ling Yu, Pang Pei, Sun Lei, Arthur Sze, Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Wei An, Woeser, Yang Lian, Yang Zi, Yi Lu, Barbara Yien, Yinni, Yu Xiang, and Zhang Zao.Sky Lanterns also features images from the Simple Song series by photographer Luo Dan. Traveling with a portable darkroom in remote, mountainous regions of southern China’s Yunnan Province, Luo Dan uses the laborious nineteenth-century, wet plate collodion process of exposure and development. In exquisite detail, he captures a rural life that has remained intact for centuries.
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