{"id":1406,"date":"2012-11-27T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T02:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2012-11-26T00:29:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T16:29:53","slug":"panax-ginseng-review-of-sky-lanterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1406","title":{"rendered":"Panax Ginseng Review of Sky Lanterns"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sky<\/a>Henry Leung’s review of Sky Lanterns<\/em>, the new issue of M\u0101noa<\/em><\/em><\/a> edited by Frank Stewart and Fiona Sze-Lorrain<\/a>, has appeared at Lantern Review<\/a>. Here’s how it begins:<\/p>\n

Manoa<\/em>\u2019s recent \u201cSky Lanterns\u201d issue spotlights \u201cnew poetry from China, Formosa, and Beyond.\u201d The issue features contemporary poets organized in order of age: \u201cnot as a bow to hierarchy,\u201d writes editor Fiona Sze-Lorrain in her prefatory note, \u201cbut to trace a possibility sensitive to time.\u201d From a first glance at the cover, we see a juxtaposition of the old and the new in the grandly staged Soul Stealer, <\/em>photographs by artists Zeng Han and Yang Changhong. In the diptych\u2019s top half is Mulian Opera #11<\/em>: costumed figures of an ancient theater tradition, including mythic animal avatars such as the monkey king, who populate a green landscape with a seven-story pagoda obscured by mist. Meanwhile, in the bottom half is World Warcraft #11 <\/em>(dated a year later): costumed figures of neo-contemporary archetypes, including the princesses, warlocks, and demons familiar to role-playing video gamers, who populate a craggy landscape with a line of skyscrapers obscured by what may be polluted smog. The \u201cpossibility sensitive to time\u201d in the photographs is appropriate to this volume because the costumed figures above and below reflect the modulations of culture, place, and society over time\u2014and yet exist as avatars of myth and imagination outside of time. The same might also be said of the figures and expressions of poetry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. Here’s how it begins: Manoa\u2019s recent \u201cSky Lanterns\u201d issue spotlights \u201cnew poetry from China, Formosa, and Beyond.\u201d … 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],"tags":[228,278,830,829],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-mG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1381,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1381","url_meta":{"origin":1406,"position":0},"title":"Sky Lantern Reviewed at Honolulu Weekly","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Sky Lantern, the recent M\u0101noa issue edited by Frank Stewart and Fiona Sze-Lorrain has been reviewed at the Honolulu Weekly. 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