{"id":1469,"date":"2012-12-18T10:30:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T02:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2012-12-11T21:56:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T13:56:56","slug":"gerald-maa-translates-two-poems-by-hai-zi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"Gerald Maa Translates Two Poems by Hai Zi"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Mead Magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Two Poems by Haizi \u6d77\u5b50
\ntranslated from Mandarin by Gerald Maa
\n“Your Hands” & “The Arles Sun”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

North
\nDrawing your hands
\nThe hand
\nPicks off a glove
\nThey\u2019re just two small lamps
\n…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from Mead Magazine: Two Poems by Haizi \u6d77\u5b50 translated from Mandarin by Gerald Maa “Your Hands” & “The Arles Sun”   North Drawing your hands The hand Picks off a glove They\u2019re just two small lamps …<\/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":[235,144],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-nH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":456,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=456","url_meta":{"origin":1469,"position":0},"title":"Hai Zi in Swedish & English","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"December 5, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Segueing off the days of links to posts on Xi Chuan in German, as well as the recent reports on Chinese week at Norway's Litteraturhuset, here are translations of Hai Zi \u6d77\u5b50 into Swedish by Anna Gustafsson Chen. 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