{"id":150,"date":"2011-10-18T10:22:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T02:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2011-10-30T19:31:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T11:31:39","slug":"the-editors-edits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"The Editor’s Edits"},"content":{"rendered":"

After weeks of delays and worrying (the first package vanished somewhere between New York and Hongkong, so a copy had to be re-sent from another service), the editor<\/a>‘s notes on Notes on the Mosquito<\/em>, my translation of Xi Chuan’s selected poems, arrived yesterday.<\/p>\n

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Looking at this is both humbling and exhilarating. Can’t wait to get to work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After weeks of delays and worrying (the first package vanished somewhere between New York and Hongkong, so a copy had to be re-sent from another service), the editor‘s notes on Notes on the Mosquito, my translation of Xi Chuan’s selected … 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":[31,12,7],"tags":[45,44,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-2q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":344,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=344","url_meta":{"origin":150,"position":0},"title":"New Publication","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The new issue of Plume is up, with excellent new pieces from the likes of Cole Swensen and Georg Trakl (translated by Mark Wunderlich). 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