{"id":1684,"date":"2013-03-18T10:30:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T02:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2013-03-05T00:14:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T16:14:52","slug":"hua-li-reviews-shi-zhis-winter-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1684","title":{"rendered":"Hua Li reviews Shi Zhi’s Winter Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Winter<\/a>Hua Li reviews Winter Sun<\/em> by Shi Zhi \u98df\u6307<\/a>, translated by Jonathan Stalling. Here’s how it concludes:<\/em><\/p>\n

Winter Sun<\/em> is a long-overdue collection of one of the leading figures in contemporary Chinese poetry. I will close with an excerpt from one of Shi Zhi\u2019s notable poems, \u201cOh, Nietzsche\u201d: \u201cThrough so many sleepless nights he endured the torture of disease \/ Yet nurtured the poetic longing of solitude and indifference \/ An infant thought undergoes the trauma of birth \/ To finally cry out in an earth-shattering voice.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hua Li reviews Winter Sun by Shi Zhi \u98df\u6307, translated by Jonathan Stalling. Here’s how it concludes: Winter Sun is a long-overdue collection of one of the leading figures in contemporary Chinese poetry. I will close with an excerpt from … 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":[957,210,125],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-ra","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1571,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1571","url_meta":{"origin":1684,"position":0},"title":"Shi Zhi’s Winter Sun at Received & Recommended","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"February 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Received & Recommended has received (and recommends) Winter Sun (U of Oklahoma Press), by Shi Zhi \u98df\u6307, translated by Jonathan Stalling. \"Taking the pen name of Shi Zhi, meaning 'index finger,'\" they write, \"to evoke the image of people pointing at his back, he continued to write poetry throughout these\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/receivedandrecommended.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/9780806142418.jpg?w=350&h=200&crop=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1738,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1738","url_meta":{"origin":1684,"position":1},"title":"Birgit Linder on Shi Zhi’s Winter Sun","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Modern Chinese Literature & Culture has published Birgit Linder\u2019s review of Winter Sun: Poems, translated by Jonathan Stalling. 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