{"id":1624,"date":"2013-02-11T10:30:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T02:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2013-02-13T12:10:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T04:10:36","slug":"review-of-words-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1624","title":{"rendered":"Review of Words & the World"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Kevin Carollo’s review of Words & the World<\/a>,<\/em> the publication from the 2011 International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong, has just appeared at Rain Taxi<\/em> <\/a>online. Carollo writes:<\/div>\n

Enter Words & the World<\/em>, the material result of 2011\u2019s International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong. A white box roughly 7 x 11 x 2.5 inches in dimension houses a collection of twenty chapbooks, black ink on white paper, with at least two languages guaranteed in each chapbook (Chinese and English). The collection \u201cbegins\u201d with the younger generation Mexican poet Mar\u00eda Baranda (b. 1962), and \u201cends\u201d with Chinese writer Yu Xiang (b. 1970), integrating them with better-known or longer-standing international versifiers, including Irish trickster Paul Muldoon, American spiritualist C.D Wright, Japanese lyric master Shuntaro Tanikawa, and Slovenian dynamo Tomaz Salamun. The box-set effect encourages reading at cross-cultural purposes, to be sure, and a nice leveling effect emerges between poets, poems, and languages. The work inside is generally stunning, strange, and vibrant, in no small part due to having crossed so many borders to appear before your very eyes.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s English speaker is more than likely aware of the myriad forms of English informing the polyphonic Anglo poetry world, and the inclusion of such diverse poets as Muldoon, Wright, and Indian Vivek Narayanan intimates as much. Perhaps because the \u201cWest\u201d often conveniently forgets that a billion people speak the language, Words & The World<\/em> importantly underscores the heterogeneous nature of living and writing in Chinese by showcasing writers from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. All of them seem engaged in some form of epic conversation with a \u201cWest\u201d that is far from predictable or uniform in its concerns or manifestations. The addition of poets like Brazilian R\u00e9gis Bonvicino (writing in Portuguese, despite his French-Italian name) and German-born Russian poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko further reinforces the sense of a grandiloquent, irreverent dialogue occurring across the seven seas. Bonvicino\u2019s chapbook includes an untitled poem dedicated to Dragomoshchencko, which begins: \u201cAlmost no one sees \/ what I see in the words \/ byzantine iconoclasm \/ the clock reads midnight or mid-day?\u201d (56). Indeed, the byzantine iconoclasm of this box set is what astonishes most of all, the overriding and often overwhelming sense that, night or day, it is high time for all of us to wake up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

Kevin Carollo’s review of Words & the World, the publication from the 2011 International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong, has just appeared at Rain Taxi online. Carollo writes: Enter Words & the World, the material result of 2011\u2019s International Poetry … 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":[8,814,7],"tags":[66,70,64,68,65,73,71,69,82],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-qc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":273,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=273","url_meta":{"origin":1624,"position":0},"title":"Words and the World","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Words & The World, the twenty-volume box set of multilingual pocket-sized poetry books for this year's International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong (which will take place from the 10th to 13th this month) has been published. 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