{"id":1036,"date":"2012-07-15T09:39:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T01:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2012-07-15T09:40:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T01:40:40","slug":"sky-lanterns-poetry-from-china-formosa-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1036","title":{"rendered":"Sky Lanterns: Poetry from China, Formosa, and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhpress.hawaii.edu\/p-8932-9780824836986.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ProductPic8932\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.uhpress.hawaii.edu\/images\/Product\/medium\/9780824836986.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"Sky Lanterns: Poetry from China, Formosa, and Beyond\" name=\"ProductPic8932\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>The new issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhpress.hawaii.edu\/p-8932-9780824836986.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><em><em>M\u0101noa<\/em><\/em><\/a> is available, edited by Frank Stewart with <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?tag=fiona-sze-lorrain\" target=\"_blank\">Fiona Sze-Lorrain<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>Sky Lanterns<\/em> brings together innovative work by authors\u2014primarily poets\u2014in 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.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Sky Lanterns<\/em> also features images from the <em>Simple Song <\/em>series by photographer Luo Dan. Traveling with a portable darkroom in remote, mountainous regions of southern China\u2019s 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.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Click the image for ordering information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new issue of M\u0101noa is available, edited by Frank Stewart with Fiona Sze-Lorrain: Sky Lanterns brings together innovative work by authors\u2014primarily poets\u2014in mainland China, Taiwan, the United States, and beyond who are engaged in truth-seeking, resistance, and renewal. Appearing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1036\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[625,227,59,632,50,626,163,228,624,144,627,60,402,75,634,628,256,629,400,21,630,631,633,82,137],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-gI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2151,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2151","url_meta":{"origin":1036,"position":0},"title":"Fiona Sze-Lorrain featured in China Daily","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"August 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Solving a riddle with a harp and the magic of words\" As a student at Columbia University, she dabbled in theater, writing and East Asian studies, and came to realize that there was more to be understood in the space between words and cultures, she said. 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