{"id":1499,"date":"2012-12-20T10:12:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T02:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2012-12-20T10:12:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T02:12:16","slug":"notes-on-the-mosquito-on-wlts-75-notable-translations-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1499","title":{"rendered":"Notes on the Mosquito on WLT\u2019s 75 Notable Translations 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Literature Today<\/em> has posted its list of seventy-five notable translations <\/a>for 2012, and it features my translation of Xi Chuan’s Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems<\/a><\/em>, along with only three other books by East Asian writers.<\/p>\n

The list also includes Jeffrey Yang’s translation of June Fourth Elegies<\/a> <\/em>\u5ff5\u5ff5\u516d\u56db by Liu Xiaobo<\/a> \u5218\u6653\u6ce2, as well as Eliot Weinberger’s new Poems of Octavio Paz<\/em><\/a>, also published by New Directions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See the entire list here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World Literature Today has posted its list of seventy-five notable translations for 2012, and it features my translation of Xi Chuan’s Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems, along with only three other books by East Asian writers. 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