{"id":1729,"date":"2013-03-11T10:30:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T02:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2013-03-04T22:10:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T14:10:24","slug":"xi-chuan-at-middlebury-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1729","title":{"rendered":"Xi Chuan at Middlebury College"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poetry Reading by Xi Chuan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, March 11, 7:00-8:00 PM<\/p>\n

Axinn Center 229, Middlebury College<\/p>\n

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\u201cXi Chuan’s surprising poems reach into tight corners of mind and matter, impersonal but intimate, new to be heard but also oddly familiar. An impressive voice\u2014bold and calm\u201d\u2014 <\/strong>Gary Snyder.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Xi Chuan, one of the most influential of contemporary Chinese poets, will read in Chinese; Lucas Klein (Middlebury class of 2000) of the City University of Hong Kong will read his English translations from Notes on the Mosquito: Selected Poems<\/em><\/a> (New Directions, 2012). The reading will be followed by discussion and question and answer in English with the poet and his translator. Open to the public.<\/p>\n

Sponsored by the Department of Chinese, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Program in East Asian Studies, and the John D. Berninghuasen Professorship in Chinese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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