{"id":1112,"date":"2012-08-20T11:09:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T03:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2012-08-20T11:13:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T03:13:49","slug":"xi-chuan-excerpts-by-norbert-blei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"Xi Chuan excerpts by Norbert Blei"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Photo<\/a>Back in April, right after Notes on the Mosquito<\/a> <\/em>was released, Norbert Blei<\/a> posted excerpts of Xi Chuan’s poetry in my translation on two of his blogs: on Bash\u014d’s Road <\/a>he posted selections from “Answering Venus” \u56de\u7b54\u542f\u660e\u661f, and on Poetry Dispatch he typed up “Exhortations” \u7bb4\u8a00, from Salute<\/em> \u81f4\u656c. Above “Answering Venus” and Xi Chuan’s lines,<\/p>\n

no one has yet tested the pencil
\nto see how many words it can write<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

he posted a large picture of a pencil<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in April, right after Notes on the Mosquito was released, Norbert Blei posted excerpts of Xi Chuan’s poetry in my translation on two of his blogs: on Bash\u014d’s Road he posted selections from “Answering Venus” \u56de\u7b54\u542f\u660e\u661f, and on Poetry … Continue reading →<\/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":[3,7],"tags":[688,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-hW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":109,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=109","url_meta":{"origin":1112,"position":0},"title":"Xi Chuan Interview","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"October 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The inimitable Paul Nelson met Xi Chuan when they both attended the Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival \u9752\u6d77\u6e56\u56fd\u9645\u8bd7\u6b4c\u8282 last August. 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