{"id":1370,"date":"2012-11-12T10:30:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T02:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2012-11-10T12:43:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T04:43:16","slug":"bookslut-reviews-notes-on-the-mosquito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1370","title":{"rendered":"Bookslut Reviews Notes on the Mosquito"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bookslut\"<\/a>The online literary journal Bookslut <\/a>has posted Greer Mansfield’s excellent review of my translation of Xi Chuan titled “Notes on Xi Chuan\u2019s Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems<\/em>.” Here’s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

Xi Chuan has translated Borges and even written a poem about him, but these prose poems bring to mind another great Argentine: Julio Cortazar in quizzical sketches like Cronopios and Famas.<\/p>\n

His poems also bring to mind the Western modernists: urban surrealism, clear images expressed in laconic language, black humor, and dialogues with the dead. But one also thinks of the classical Chinese poets: atmospheres and experiences captured in a few words, a slight shift in mood (a change in the weather, the sight of an inscription on a tree) evoking entire worlds … One also thinks of a Chinese wisdom writer as great as Zhuangzi. Xi Chuan has a similarly playful and puzzling mind, embracing the bafflement and ambiguity of the world. Zhuangzi himself makes an appearance in these poems, as do other luminaries of Chinese literature, philosophy, and history: the \u201cgrand historian\u201d Sima Qian, the satirical poet Sima Xiangru, the poets of the Tang Dynasty, and even Confucius. These presences are as much a part of Xi Chuan\u2019s landscape as Beijing\u2019s streets, the South Xinjiang mountains, or the huge Chinese plains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here for the whole review<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The online literary journal Bookslut has posted Greer Mansfield’s excellent review of my translation of Xi Chuan titled “Notes on Xi Chuan\u2019s Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems.” Here’s an excerpt: Xi Chuan has translated Borges and even written a … 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":[3,814,16,7],"tags":[780,817,816,815,818,819,1654,453],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-m6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1941,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1941","url_meta":{"origin":1370,"position":0},"title":"A Normal Interview with Xi Chuan & Lucas Klein","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"May 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Editorial Intern Michael Gray asks Chinese poet Xi Chuan and his translator Lucas Klein tough questions concerning process, navigating translation, and the relationship between literature and reality. 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