{"id":1381,"date":"2012-11-14T10:30:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T02:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2012-11-10T18:06:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T10:06:25","slug":"sky-lantern-reviewed-at-honolulu-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1381","title":{"rendered":"Sky Lantern Reviewed at Honolulu Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Literary\"<\/a>Sky Lantern<\/a>, the recent M\u0101noa<\/em><\/em> issue edited by Frank Stewart and Fiona Sze-Lorrain<\/a> has been reviewed at the Honolulu Weekly<\/a>. Here’s how it begins:<\/p>\n

Even for the well-versed poetry enthusiast, Chinese poetry can begin and end with the short bangs of \u201cThe River-Merchant\u2019s Wife.\u201d But we\u2019ve traveled far from Ezra Pound\u2019s translation of that eighth century love letter. The road from Cho-Fu-Sa veers and switchbacks to the White Terror, the Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Square, sweatshop labor, and Richard Gere\u2019s plea for a free Tibet. Not to mention, the trees dressed according to season and the everyday vicissitudes of light. Edited by Frank Stewart and Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Sky Lanterns: New Poetry from China, Formosa, and Beyond <\/em>illuminates this complicated terrain with stunning and provocative poems, prose, and photography.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click the image above for the full review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sky Lantern, the recent M\u0101noa issue edited by Frank Stewart and Fiona Sze-Lorrain has been reviewed at the Honolulu Weekly. Here’s how it begins: Even for the well-versed poetry enthusiast, Chinese poetry can begin and end with the short bangs … 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":[3,16],"tags":[38,228,624,821],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-mh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1406,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1406","url_meta":{"origin":1381,"position":0},"title":"Panax Ginseng Review of Sky Lanterns","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 27, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Henry Leung's review of Sky Lanterns, the new issue of M\u0101noa edited by Frank Stewart and Fiona Sze-Lorrain, has appeared at Lantern Review. 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